William Francis Sutton Jr.
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William Francis Sutton Jr., better known as Willie Sutton, was a notorious American bank robber active in the early to mid-20th century, famed for his numerous escapes from prison and his reputed quip about robbing banks "because that's where the money is."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Francis Sutton Jr. canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1114017 — 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 Francis Sutton Jr. Context triple: [Willie Sutton, fullName, William Francis Sutton Jr.]
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William Wesley Peters
William Wesley Peters was an American architect best known as a chief associate and protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright and a leading figure at the Taliesin Fellowship.
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B.
Leonard Franklin Slye
Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
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C.
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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D.
Arthur E. Bryson Jr.
Arthur E. Bryson Jr. is a pioneering control theorist and aerospace engineer often regarded as a founder of modern optimal control theory.
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E.
Allen Thorndike Rice
Allen Thorndike Rice was a 19th-century American journalist, editor, and publisher best known for revitalizing and expanding the influence of the North American Review.
- 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 Francis Sutton Jr. Target entity description: William Francis Sutton Jr., better known as Willie Sutton, was a notorious American bank robber active in the early to mid-20th century, famed for his numerous escapes from prison and his reputed quip about robbing banks "because that's where the money is."
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A.
William Wesley Peters
William Wesley Peters was an American architect best known as a chief associate and protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright and a leading figure at the Taliesin Fellowship.
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B.
Leonard Franklin Slye
Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
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C.
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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D.
Arthur E. Bryson Jr.
Arthur E. Bryson Jr. is a pioneering control theorist and aerospace engineer often regarded as a founder of modern optimal control theory.
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E.
Allen Thorndike Rice
Allen Thorndike Rice was a 19th-century American journalist, editor, and publisher best known for revitalizing and expanding the influence of the North American Review.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Francis Sutton Jr. Description of subject: William Francis Sutton Jr., better known as Willie Sutton, was a notorious American bank robber active in the early to mid-20th century, famed for his numerous escapes from prison and his reputed quip about robbing banks "because that's where the money is."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.