Richard W. Smith
E296725
Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard W. Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1296886 — 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: Richard W. Smith Context triple: [Frederick W. Smith, hasChild, Richard W. Smith]
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A.
Adrian D. Smith
Adrian D. Smith is an American architect renowned for designing some of the world’s tallest and most iconic skyscrapers.
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B.
David R. Francis
David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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D.
Donald W. Loveland
Donald W. Loveland is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential contributions to automated theorem proving and logic in computer science.
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E.
Frederick W. Lander
Frederick W. Lander was a 19th-century American civil engineer and explorer best known for surveying and constructing overland wagon routes to the western United States.
- 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: Richard W. Smith Target entity description: Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
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A.
Adrian D. Smith
Adrian D. Smith is an American architect renowned for designing some of the world’s tallest and most iconic skyscrapers.
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B.
David R. Francis
David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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D.
Donald W. Loveland
Donald W. Loveland is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential contributions to automated theorem proving and logic in computer science.
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E.
Frederick W. Lander
Frederick W. Lander was a 19th-century American civil engineer and explorer best known for surveying and constructing overland wagon routes to the western United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
courier company
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| child | Richard W. Smith self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| father | Frederick W. Smith ⓘ |
| founderOf | FedEx ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| memberOf | Smith family ⓘ |
| middleName | W. ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding FedEx ⓘ |
| occupation | businessperson ⓘ |
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: Richard W. Smith Description of subject: Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Frederick W. Smith