Jonathan Williams
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Jonathan Williams was an early American military engineer and officer who served as the first superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jonathan Williams canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4799356 — 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: Jonathan Williams Context triple: [Castle Williams, namedAfter, Jonathan Williams]
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Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams was an American poet, publisher, and founder of the Jargon Society, closely associated with the experimental Black Mountain poetry movement.
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B.
Daniel Williams
Daniel Williams is a Grenadian politician who served as the country's Governor-General, acting as the representative of the British monarch in Grenada.
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C.
Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams is a television and film director and producer known for his work on acclaimed series such as Watchmen and Lost.
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D.
Chris Williams
Chris Williams is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television series such as "Californication" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
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E.
Chris Williams
Chris Williams is an American film director, screenwriter, and animator best known for his work on major Disney animated features such as Moana and Big Hero 6.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jonathan Williams Target entity description: Jonathan Williams was an early American military engineer and officer who served as the first superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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A.
Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams was an American poet, publisher, and founder of the Jargon Society, closely associated with the experimental Black Mountain poetry movement.
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B.
Daniel Williams
Daniel Williams is a Grenadian politician who served as the country's Governor-General, acting as the representative of the British monarch in Grenada.
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C.
Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams is a television and film director and producer known for his work on acclaimed series such as Watchmen and Lost.
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D.
Chris Williams
Chris Williams is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television series such as "Californication" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
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E.
Chris Williams
Chris Williams is an American film director, screenwriter, and animator best known for his work on major Disney animated features such as Moana and Big Hero 6.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
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military educator ⓘ military engineer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | United States Military Academy at West Point NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1750-05-20 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Boston, Massachusetts, British America
NERFINISHED
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Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1815-05-16 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designed | coastal fortifications in New York Harbor ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| electedIn | 1808 United States House of Representatives elections NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | United States Army ⓘ |
| familyName | Williams ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
coastal fortifications
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military engineering ⓘ |
| givenName | Jonathan ⓘ |
| hasRelativeType | grandnephew of Benjamin Franklin ⓘ |
| influenced | professionalization of American military education ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Philosophical Society
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United States Army Corps of Engineers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brigadier general (brevet)
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colonel ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
helped organize and lead the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the early 19th century
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served as first superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point ⓘ |
| notableStudent | early officer corps of the United States Army ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of the United States Military Academy at West Point ⓘ |
| occupation |
army officer
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military engineer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| politicalOffice | member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Democratic-Republican Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief of Engineers of the United States Army
NERFINISHED
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first superintendent of the United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| relative | Benjamin Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represented | Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
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West Point, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEndYear | 1812 ⓘ |
| serviceEntryYear | 1776 ⓘ |
| studiedUnder | Benjamin Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
American Revolutionary War era
NERFINISHED
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early United States Republic ⓘ |
| workLocation | West Point, New York 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: Jonathan Williams Description of subject: Jonathan Williams was an early American military engineer and officer who served as the first superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.