William H. Pitsenbarger
E262379
Medal of Honor recipient
United States Air Force airman
human
military personnel killed in the Vietnam War
pararescueman
William H. Pitsenbarger was a United States Air Force pararescueman and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroic actions and ultimate sacrifice during the Vietnam War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William H. Pitsenbarger canonical | 11 |
| Airman First Class William H. Pitsenbarger | 1 |
| Medal of Honor recipient William H. Pitsenbarger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2407149 — 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 H. Pitsenbarger Context triple: [Golden Gate National Cemetery, hasGraveOf, William H. Pitsenbarger]
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A.
Michael S. Murphy
Michael S. Murphy is a film and television editor best known for his work on the 1997 musical fantasy film "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella."
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B.
William Calley
William Calley is a former U.S. Army officer best known for his central role in and subsequent conviction for war crimes related to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
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C.
William C. McCool
William C. McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
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D.
3rd Lieutenant Joseph Baker
3rd Lieutenant Joseph Baker was a British naval officer in the late 18th century who served under Captain George Vancouver and for whom Washington State’s Mount Baker is named.
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E.
Richard Bong
Richard Bong was a United States Army Air Forces fighter ace of World War II and America’s highest-scoring air ace, credited with 40 aerial victories.
- 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 H. Pitsenbarger Target entity description: William H. Pitsenbarger was a United States Air Force pararescueman and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroic actions and ultimate sacrifice during the Vietnam War.
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A.
Michael S. Murphy
Michael S. Murphy is a film and television editor best known for his work on the 1997 musical fantasy film "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella."
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B.
William Calley
William Calley is a former U.S. Army officer best known for his central role in and subsequent conviction for war crimes related to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
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C.
William C. McCool
William C. McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
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D.
3rd Lieutenant Joseph Baker
3rd Lieutenant Joseph Baker was a British naval officer in the late 18th century who served under Captain George Vancouver and for whom Washington State’s Mount Baker is named.
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E.
Richard Bong
Richard Bong was a United States Army Air Forces fighter ace of World War II and America’s highest-scoring air ace, credited with 40 aerial victories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 H. Pitsenbarger Description of subject: William H. Pitsenbarger was a United States Air Force pararescueman and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroic actions and ultimate sacrifice during the Vietnam War.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Miami Memorial Park Cemetery, Covington, Ohio, United States of America
William H. Pitsenbarger scholarship and awards program
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honors
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Airman First Class William H. Pitsenbarger
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linked to: William H. Pitsenbarger
William H. Pitsenbarger scholarship and awards program
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commemorates
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Medal of Honor recipient William H. Pitsenbarger
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linked to: William H. Pitsenbarger