James Wood
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James Wood was an American political figure after whom Wood County in West Virginia was named, likely due to his regional influence or public service.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Wood canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4772954 — 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: James Wood Context triple: [Wood County, West Virginia, namedAfter, James Wood]
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A.
Geoffrey Wright
Geoffrey Wright is an Australian film director best known for his gritty and controversial work, including the neo-Nazi skinhead drama "Romper Stomper."
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B.
Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham is an English character actor known for his intense, often gritty performances in films and television series such as "This Is England," "Boardwalk Empire," and "The Irishman."
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C.
Clarke Peters
Clarke Peters is an American actor, writer, and director best known for his roles in acclaimed television series such as The Wire and Treme, as well as numerous film and stage performances.
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D.
Jared Harris
Jared Harris is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including acclaimed performances in series like "Mad Men," "Chernobyl," and "The Crown."
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E.
Dylan Baker
Dylan Baker is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in film, television, and theater, including appearances in movies like "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and the "Spider-Man" series.
- 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: James Wood Target entity description: James Wood was an American political figure after whom Wood County in West Virginia was named, likely due to his regional influence or public service.
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A.
Geoffrey Wright
Geoffrey Wright is an Australian film director best known for his gritty and controversial work, including the neo-Nazi skinhead drama "Romper Stomper."
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B.
Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham is an English character actor known for his intense, often gritty performances in films and television series such as "This Is England," "Boardwalk Empire," and "The Irishman."
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C.
Clarke Peters
Clarke Peters is an American actor, writer, and director best known for his roles in acclaimed television series such as The Wire and Treme, as well as numerous film and stage performances.
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D.
Jared Harris
Jared Harris is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including acclaimed performances in series like "Mad Men," "Chernobyl," and "The Crown."
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E.
Dylan Baker
Dylan Baker is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in film, television, and theater, including appearances in movies like "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and the "Spider-Man" series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasCountyNamedAfterHim | Wood County, West Virginia ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Wood ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | James ⓘ |
| hasNotableConnection | Wood County, West Virginia ⓘ |
| name | James Wood ⓘ |
| namedAfter | James Wood ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the namesake of Wood County, West Virginia ⓘ |
| occupation | political figure ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Virginia region
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area that later became West Virginia ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity | politics ⓘ |
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: James Wood Description of subject: James Wood was an American political figure after whom Wood County in West Virginia was named, likely due to his regional influence or public service.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
James Wood