William Tell
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William Tell is a legendary Swiss folk hero and expert marksman famed for shooting an apple off his son's head and symbolizing resistance to tyranny.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Tell canonical | 5 |
| Wilhelm Tell | 2 |
| Guillaume Tell | 1 |
| Walter Tell | 1 |
| William Tell legend | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3078475 — 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 Tell Context triple: [Guillaume Tell, namedAfter, William Tell]
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A.
Guillaume Tell
Guillaume Tell was a large French ship of the line that served in the French Navy during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, notably participating in the Napoleonic Wars.
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B.
Hubertus
Hubertus is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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C.
Johann Sturm
Johann Sturm was a 16th-century German educator and humanist renowned for founding and directing the Strasbourg Gymnasium, a model Protestant school that influenced education across Europe.
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D.
Kurt Huber
Kurt Huber was a German philosophy and psychology professor best known for his role as a member of the White Rose resistance group against the Nazi regime.
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E.
Nicholas of Flüe
Nicholas of Flüe was a 15th-century Swiss hermit, mystic, and patron saint of Switzerland renowned for his role as a mediator and peacemaker in Swiss political conflicts.
- 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 Tell Target entity description: William Tell is a legendary Swiss folk hero and expert marksman famed for shooting an apple off his son's head and symbolizing resistance to tyranny.
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A.
Guillaume Tell
Guillaume Tell was a large French ship of the line that served in the French Navy during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, notably participating in the Napoleonic Wars.
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B.
Hubertus
Hubertus is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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C.
Johann Sturm
Johann Sturm was a 16th-century German educator and humanist renowned for founding and directing the Strasbourg Gymnasium, a model Protestant school that influenced education across Europe.
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D.
Kurt Huber
Kurt Huber was a German philosophy and psychology professor best known for his role as a member of the White Rose resistance group against the Nazi regime.
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E.
Nicholas of Flüe
Nicholas of Flüe was a 15th-century Swiss hermit, mystic, and patron saint of Switzerland renowned for his role as a mediator and peacemaker in Swiss political conflicts.
- 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 Tell Description of subject: William Tell is a legendary Swiss folk hero and expert marksman famed for shooting an apple off his son's head and symbolizing resistance to tyranny.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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William Tell
linked to: William Tell