William McDermot
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William McDermot is a personal name that appears as a variant spelling of the more common surname form “McDermott.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William McDermot canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18622556 — 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 McDermot Context triple: [William McDermott, hasVariantSpelling, William McDermot]
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A.
Walter H. Beech
Walter H. Beech was an American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the Beech Aircraft Corporation, a major manufacturer of general aviation and military aircraft.
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B.
Glenn Curtis
Glenn Curtis was an American basketball coach best known for leading the early NBA franchise that became the Detroit Falcons.
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C.
Walter Watson Hughes
Walter Watson Hughes was a 19th-century Scottish-Australian pastoralist and philanthropist whose substantial donations were pivotal in establishing higher education in South Australia.
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D.
Lloyd Stearman
Lloyd Stearman was an American aviation pioneer and aircraft designer best known for founding multiple aircraft companies and creating the iconic Stearman biplane trainers used extensively before and during World War II.
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E.
Clyde Pangborn
Clyde Pangborn was an American aviator best known for completing the first nonstop trans-Pacific flight from Japan to the United States in 1931.
- 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 McDermot Target entity description: William McDermot is a personal name that appears as a variant spelling of the more common surname form “McDermott.”
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A.
Walter H. Beech
Walter H. Beech was an American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the Beech Aircraft Corporation, a major manufacturer of general aviation and military aircraft.
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B.
Glenn Curtis
Glenn Curtis was an American basketball coach best known for leading the early NBA franchise that became the Detroit Falcons.
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C.
Walter Watson Hughes
Walter Watson Hughes was a 19th-century Scottish-Australian pastoralist and philanthropist whose substantial donations were pivotal in establishing higher education in South Australia.
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D.
Lloyd Stearman
Lloyd Stearman was an American aviation pioneer and aircraft designer best known for founding multiple aircraft companies and creating the iconic Stearman biplane trainers used extensively before and during World War II.
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E.
Clyde Pangborn
Clyde Pangborn was an American aviator best known for completing the first nonstop trans-Pacific flight from Japan to the United States in 1931.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.