William Knox Schroeder
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William Knox Schroeder was a 19-year-old Kent State University student who was fatally shot by the Ohio National Guard during the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Knox Schroeder canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5703887 — 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 Knox Schroeder Context triple: [Kent State shootings, victim, William Knox Schroeder]
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A.
Jim Cox
Jim Cox is an American screenwriter best known for his work on animated films, including Disney’s "The Rescuers Down Under."
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B.
Herbert Kohl
Herbert Kohl is an American educator and author known for his influential work on progressive education, social justice in schools, and innovative teaching methods.
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C.
Paul Findley
Paul Findley was an American Republican congressman from Illinois and prominent critic of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, particularly regarding Israel-Palestine relations.
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D.
William M. Daley
William M. Daley is an American lawyer, businessman, and Democratic politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce and White House Chief of Staff.
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E.
Paul Tsongas
Paul Tsongas was an American Democratic politician from Massachusetts who served in the U.S. Senate and ran for president in 1992, known for his focus on fiscal responsibility and economic reform.
- 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 Knox Schroeder Target entity description: William Knox Schroeder was a 19-year-old Kent State University student who was fatally shot by the Ohio National Guard during the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
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A.
Jim Cox
Jim Cox is an American screenwriter best known for his work on animated films, including Disney’s "The Rescuers Down Under."
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B.
Herbert Kohl
Herbert Kohl is an American educator and author known for his influential work on progressive education, social justice in schools, and innovative teaching methods.
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C.
Paul Findley
Paul Findley was an American Republican congressman from Illinois and prominent critic of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, particularly regarding Israel-Palestine relations.
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D.
William M. Daley
William M. Daley is an American lawyer, businessman, and Democratic politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce and White House Chief of Staff.
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E.
Paul Tsongas
Paul Tsongas was an American Democratic politician from Massachusetts who served in the U.S. Senate and ran for president in 1992, known for his focus on fiscal responsibility and economic reform.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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 Knox Schroeder Description of subject: William Knox Schroeder was a 19-year-old Kent State University student who was fatally shot by the Ohio National Guard during the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.