William H. Steele
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William H. Steele was an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as interred at Hackensack Cemetery in New Jersey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William H. Steele canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3677255 — 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 H. Steele Context triple: [Hackensack Cemetery, containsGraveOf, William H. Steele]
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A.
William G. Fargo
William G. Fargo was a 19th-century American businessman and express pioneer best known as a co-founder of American Express and Wells Fargo.
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B.
William H. Stokes
William H. Stokes is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
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C.
Thomas C. Kinkaid
Thomas C. Kinkaid was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II who led major Allied naval operations in the Pacific Theater.
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D.
William D. Stephens
William D. Stephens was an American Republican politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
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E.
William E. Hunt
William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
- 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 H. Steele Target entity description: William H. Steele was an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as interred at Hackensack Cemetery in New Jersey.
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A.
William G. Fargo
William G. Fargo was a 19th-century American businessman and express pioneer best known as a co-founder of American Express and Wells Fargo.
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B.
William H. Stokes
William H. Stokes is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
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C.
Thomas C. Kinkaid
Thomas C. Kinkaid was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II who led major Allied naval operations in the Pacific Theater.
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D.
William D. Stephens
William D. Stephens was an American Republican politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
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E.
William E. Hunt
William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| burialCity | Hackensack, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialCountry | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialState | New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| buriedIn | Hackensack Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 H. Steele Description of subject: William H. Steele was an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as interred at Hackensack Cemetery in New Jersey.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hackensack Cemetery