William C. Warren
E352915
William C. Warren was the first husband of future First Lady Betty Ford, to whom she was married before her later marriage to Gerald Ford.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William C. Warren canonical | 2 |
| William G. Warren | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3310115 — 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 C. Warren Context triple: [Betty Ford, spouse, William C. Warren]
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A.
John E. Wool
John E. Wool was a prominent 19th-century United States Army officer who served with distinction in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, and the early stages of the Civil War.
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B.
Alvan C. Gillem
Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
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C.
Charles Dwight Sigsbee
Charles Dwight Sigsbee was a United States Navy rear admiral best known as the captain of the USS Maine when it exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898, an event that helped trigger the Spanish–American War.
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D.
Colonel Maxcy Gregg
Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
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E.
Nelson A. Miles
Nelson A. Miles was a prominent 19th-century United States Army general known for his leadership in the Indian Wars and later as Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
- 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 C. Warren Target entity description: William C. Warren was the first husband of future First Lady Betty Ford, to whom she was married before her later marriage to Gerald Ford.
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A.
John E. Wool
John E. Wool was a prominent 19th-century United States Army officer who served with distinction in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, and the early stages of the Civil War.
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B.
Alvan C. Gillem
Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
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C.
Charles Dwight Sigsbee
Charles Dwight Sigsbee was a United States Navy rear admiral best known as the captain of the USS Maine when it exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898, an event that helped trigger the Spanish–American War.
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D.
Colonel Maxcy Gregg
Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
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E.
Nelson A. Miles
Nelson A. Miles was a prominent 19th-century United States Army general known for his leadership in the Indian Wars and later as Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
First Lady of the United States
ⓘ
President of the United States ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| laterMarried | Gerald Ford ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first husband of future U.S. First Lady Betty Ford ⓘ |
| spouse |
Betty Ford
ⓘ
William C. Warren ⓘ |
| spouseOrderWithRespectToBettyFord | first husband ⓘ |
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 C. Warren Description of subject: William C. Warren was the first husband of future First Lady Betty Ford, to whom she was married before her later marriage to Gerald Ford.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.