Willard Ford
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Willard Ford is an American entrepreneur and the son of actor Harrison Ford, known for his work in the Los Angeles business and design community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Willard Ford canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3819746 — 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: Willard Ford Context triple: [Harrison Ford, child, Willard Ford]
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A.
Joseph W. Martin Jr.
Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Cecil D. Andrus
Cecil D. Andrus was an American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Jimmy Carter and as a long-time governor of Idaho, known for his work on environmental and public lands issues.
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C.
Jack C. Haldeman II
Jack C. Haldeman II was an American science fiction author known for his short stories and collaborations, including works co-written with his wife, writer Barbara Delaplace.
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D.
Ned McWherter
Ned McWherter was an American Democratic politician who served as the 46th governor of Tennessee and previously as Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
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E.
James K. Boyce
James K. Boyce is an American economist known for his work on environmental economics, inequality, and the political economy of development.
- 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: Willard Ford Target entity description: Willard Ford is an American entrepreneur and the son of actor Harrison Ford, known for his work in the Los Angeles business and design community.
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A.
Joseph W. Martin Jr.
Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Cecil D. Andrus
Cecil D. Andrus was an American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Jimmy Carter and as a long-time governor of Idaho, known for his work on environmental and public lands issues.
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C.
Jack C. Haldeman II
Jack C. Haldeman II was an American science fiction author known for his short stories and collaborations, including works co-written with his wife, writer Barbara Delaplace.
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D.
Ned McWherter
Ned McWherter was an American Democratic politician who served as the 46th governor of Tennessee and previously as Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
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E.
James K. Boyce
James K. Boyce is an American economist known for his work on environmental economics, inequality, and the political economy of development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
American people of German descent
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American people of Irish descent ⓘ American people of Jewish descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Ford ⓘ |
| father | Harrison Ford ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business
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design ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Willard ⓘ |
| hasResidenceIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
|
| isChildOf |
Harrison Ford
ⓘ
Mary Marquardt ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Marquardt ⓘ |
| name | Willard Ford self-link ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Ford family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
work in the Los Angeles business community
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work in the Los Angeles design community ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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entrepreneur ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| relative |
Benjamin Ford
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Georgia Ford ⓘ Harrison Ford ⓘ Liam Flockhart ⓘ Malcolm Ford ⓘ Mary Marquardt ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| sibling |
Benjamin Ford
ⓘ
Georgia Ford ⓘ Liam Flockhart ⓘ Malcolm Ford ⓘ |
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: Willard Ford Description of subject: Willard Ford is an American entrepreneur and the son of actor Harrison Ford, known for his work in the Los Angeles business and design community.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.