Earl Woods
E461296
Earl Woods was an American Army officer and college baseball player best known as the father and early coach of golf legend Tiger Woods.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Earl Woods canonical | 8 |
| Earl Dennison Woods | 1 |
| Earl Woods Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4613007 — 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: Earl Woods Context triple: [Tiger Woods, parent, Earl Woods]
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A.
Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer was a legendary American professional golfer whose charismatic style and numerous major championship victories helped popularize the sport worldwide.
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B.
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport’s history, known for his major championship victories and transformative impact on golf’s popularity worldwide.
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C.
John Daly
John Daly was a local landowner and civic figure after whom the Californian city of Daly City was named.
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D.
John Daly
John Daly was a prominent British film producer known for backing influential independent and Oscar-winning films through his company Hemdale Film Corporation.
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E.
Donald Ross
Donald Ross was the first husband of legendary American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist Nina Simone.
- 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: Earl Woods Target entity description: Earl Woods was an American Army officer and college baseball player best known as the father and early coach of golf legend Tiger Woods.
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A.
Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer was a legendary American professional golfer whose charismatic style and numerous major championship victories helped popularize the sport worldwide.
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B.
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport’s history, known for his major championship victories and transformative impact on golf’s popularity worldwide.
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C.
John Daly
John Daly was a local landowner and civic figure after whom the Californian city of Daly City was named.
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D.
John Daly
John Daly was a prominent British film producer known for backing influential independent and Oscar-winning films through his company Hemdale Film Corporation.
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E.
Donald Ross
Donald Ross was the first husband of legendary American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist Nina Simone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Earl Woods Description of subject: Earl Woods was an American Army officer and college baseball player best known as the father and early coach of golf legend Tiger Woods.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Earl Woods
linked to: Earl Woods