William Woods
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William Woods is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including figures in fields such as politics, sports, and academia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Woods canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4382624 — 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 Woods Context triple: [Woods, hasNotableBearer, William Woods]
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A.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
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B.
John Woodbury
John Woodbury was a land developer known for planning and promoting the early suburban community of Altadena, California.
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C.
Sam S. Walker
Sam S. Walker was a United States Army general and the son of General Walton H. Walker, known for his service during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
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E.
William Paulding Jr.
William Paulding Jr. was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as mayor of New York City and later owned the historic Lyndhurst estate in Tarrytown, New York.
- 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 Woods Target entity description: William Woods is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including figures in fields such as politics, sports, and academia.
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A.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
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B.
John Woodbury
John Woodbury was a land developer known for planning and promoting the early suburban community of Altadena, California.
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C.
Sam S. Walker
Sam S. Walker was a United States Army general and the son of General Walton H. Walker, known for his service during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
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E.
William Paulding Jr.
William Paulding Jr. was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as mayor of New York City and later owned the historic Lyndhurst estate in Tarrytown, New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
ⓘ
human ⓘ legal professional ⓘ person with legal education ⓘ public official ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Western District of Missouri ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Missouri
ⓘ
University of Missouri School of Law ⓘ |
| employer |
Judicial branch of the United States government
ⓘ
United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
judiciary
ⓘ
law ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | legal opinion ⓘ |
| hasPart | court opinions ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | federal courts of the United States ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Missouri Bar
ⓘ
linked to:
Missouri state bar
|
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States district judge
ⓘ
federal judge ⓘ |
| uses |
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
ⓘ
United States Code ⓘ United States Constitution ⓘ |
| workLocation | Missouri ⓘ |
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 Woods Description of subject: William Woods is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including figures in fields such as politics, sports, and academia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.