William Fuller (spy)
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William Fuller was a notorious late 17th-century English impostor and informer who fabricated evidence of Jacobite plots, leading to several wrongful accusations before being exposed and punished.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Fuller (spy) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3709991 — 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 Fuller (spy) Context triple: [Fuller, hasNotableBearer, William Fuller (spy)]
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A.
William Parcher
William Parcher is a mysterious, menacing government agent who appears as a figment of John Nash’s delusions in the film "A Beautiful Mind."
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B.
James Jesus Angleton
James Jesus Angleton was a prominent American intelligence officer best known for serving as the long-time chief of counterintelligence at the CIA during the Cold War.
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C.
Thomas Knowlton
Thomas Knowlton was a Continental Army officer and early American war hero, best known for leading an elite reconnaissance unit known as Knowlton's Rangers during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
James Hugh Angleton
James Hugh Angleton was the father of longtime CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton and a U.S. intelligence-linked businessman who worked in Italy before and during World War II.
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E.
John Underhill
John Underhill was a 17th-century English colonial soldier and militia leader in New England, known for his prominent and controversial role in early Native American 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 Fuller (spy) Target entity description: William Fuller was a notorious late 17th-century English impostor and informer who fabricated evidence of Jacobite plots, leading to several wrongful accusations before being exposed and punished.
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A.
William Parcher
William Parcher is a mysterious, menacing government agent who appears as a figment of John Nash’s delusions in the film "A Beautiful Mind."
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B.
James Jesus Angleton
James Jesus Angleton was a prominent American intelligence officer best known for serving as the long-time chief of counterintelligence at the CIA during the Cold War.
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C.
Thomas Knowlton
Thomas Knowlton was a Continental Army officer and early American war hero, best known for leading an elite reconnaissance unit known as Knowlton's Rangers during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
James Hugh Angleton
James Hugh Angleton was the father of longtime CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton and a U.S. intelligence-linked businessman who worked in Italy before and during World War II.
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E.
John Underhill
John Underhill was a 17th-century English colonial soldier and militia leader in New England, known for his prominent and controversial role in early Native American conflicts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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impostor ⓘ informer ⓘ spy ⓘ |
| activePeriod | late 17th century ⓘ |
| causeOfNotoriety | fabrication of state-security evidence ⓘ |
| citizenship | English ⓘ |
| consequenceOfActions | wrongful accusations against alleged Jacobites ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Stuart period
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surface form:
Restoration and post-Restoration England
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| knownFor |
notorious perjured informer
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providing false testimony about alleged conspiracies ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalPenalty |
imprisonment
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public humiliation ⓘ |
| legalStatus | convicted perjurer ⓘ |
| movement | Jacobitism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
causing wrongful accusations of Jacobitism
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fabricating evidence of Jacobite plots ⓘ |
| occupation |
impostor
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informer ⓘ spy ⓘ |
| opposed | alleged Jacobite conspirators ⓘ |
| politicalContext | Jacobite plots against the English government ⓘ |
| reputation |
notorious informer
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unreliable witness ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
exposure as a fabricator of evidence
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punishment by English authorities ⓘ |
| workLocation |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
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 Fuller (spy) Description of subject: William Fuller was a notorious late 17th-century English impostor and informer who fabricated evidence of Jacobite plots, leading to several wrongful accusations before being exposed and punished.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.