William McSweeny
E122674
William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William McSweeny canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T183626 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William McSweeny Context triple: [Go Up for Glory, coAuthor, William McSweeny]
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A.
James T. Sutherland
James T. Sutherland was a prominent Canadian hockey executive and historian who played a key role in organizing and promoting the sport, including helping to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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B.
Johnston McCulley
Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
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C.
Wilfred J. McNeil
Wilfred J. McNeil was an American government official who served in senior defense-related administrative roles, including leadership of the U.S. Munitions Board during the mid-20th century.
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D.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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E.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William McSweeny Target entity description: William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
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A.
James T. Sutherland
James T. Sutherland was a prominent Canadian hockey executive and historian who played a key role in organizing and promoting the sport, including helping to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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B.
Johnston McCulley
Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
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C.
Wilfred J. McNeil
Wilfred J. McNeil was an American government official who served in senior defense-related administrative roles, including leadership of the U.S. Munitions Board during the mid-20th century.
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D.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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E.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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autobiography ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author | Bill Russell ⓘ |
| coAuthor | William McSweeny self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | Go Up for Glory ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Bill Russell ⓘ |
| genre | sports autobiography ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Bill Russell ⓘ |
| notableWork | Go Up for Glory ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: William McSweeny Description of subject: William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Go Up for Glory
subject surface form:
Go Up for Glory