William Walton Woolsey
E491270
William Walton Woolsey was a member of the prominent Woolsey family of New England, known primarily as the son of Yale president and theologian Theodore Dwight Woolsey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Walton Woolsey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5059524 — 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 Walton Woolsey Context triple: [Theodore Dwight Woolsey, father, William Walton Woolsey]
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A.
William Theodore Walton III
William Theodore Walton III is an American former professional basketball player and Hall of Famer known for his standout college career at UCLA and his NBA success with the Portland Trail Blazers and Boston Celtics, as well as his later work as a sports broadcaster.
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B.
Robert Russell Bennett
Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer and orchestrator renowned for shaping the sound of Broadway through his work on classic musicals such as Oklahoma!.
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C.
William Walton
William Walton was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his orchestral works, film scores, and ceremonial music.
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D.
Lennox Berkeley
Lennox Berkeley was a 20th-century English composer known for his refined, neoclassical style and contributions to orchestral, choral, and chamber music.
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E.
Randall Thompson
Randall Thompson was a prominent 20th-century American composer best known for his choral works, including the frequently performed piece "Alleluia."
- 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 Walton Woolsey Target entity description: William Walton Woolsey was a member of the prominent Woolsey family of New England, known primarily as the son of Yale president and theologian Theodore Dwight Woolsey.
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A.
William Theodore Walton III
William Theodore Walton III is an American former professional basketball player and Hall of Famer known for his standout college career at UCLA and his NBA success with the Portland Trail Blazers and Boston Celtics, as well as his later work as a sports broadcaster.
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B.
Robert Russell Bennett
Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer and orchestrator renowned for shaping the sound of Broadway through his work on classic musicals such as Oklahoma!.
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C.
William Walton
William Walton was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his orchestral works, film scores, and ceremonial music.
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D.
Lennox Berkeley
Lennox Berkeley was a 20th-century English composer known for his refined, neoclassical style and contributions to orchestral, choral, and chamber music.
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E.
Randall Thompson
Randall Thompson was a prominent 20th-century American composer best known for his choral works, including the frequently performed piece "Alleluia."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Yale College ⓘ |
| familyName | Woolsey ⓘ |
| father | Theodore Dwight Woolsey ⓘ |
| givenName |
Walton
ⓘ
William ⓘ |
| memberOf | Woolsey family ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Woolsey family of New England ⓘ |
| occupation | theologian ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | New England ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of Yale College ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
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 Walton Woolsey Description of subject: William Walton Woolsey was a member of the prominent Woolsey family of New England, known primarily as the son of Yale president and theologian Theodore Dwight Woolsey.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.