William Grattan Flood
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William Grattan Flood was an Irish musicologist, historian, and organist known for collecting and preserving traditional Irish music and carols.
All labels observed (1)
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| William Grattan Flood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7692580 — 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 Grattan Flood Context triple: [The Wexford Carol, collectedBy, William Grattan Flood]
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A.
James Sansbury
James Sansbury is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Altera.
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B.
William J. Murtagh
William J. Murtagh was a prominent American architectural historian and preservationist who served as the first Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places.
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C.
George Deakin
George Deakin is an individual known for being a defendant in the 1979 English criminal case R v Thorpe and Others.
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D.
Thomas Burke
Thomas Burke was an American sprinter who became the first Olympic champion in both the 100-meter and 400-meter races at the modern Games.
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E.
Thomas Burke
Thomas Burke was an American politician who served as the third Governor of North Carolina during the early years of the United States.
- 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 Grattan Flood Target entity description: William Grattan Flood was an Irish musicologist, historian, and organist known for collecting and preserving traditional Irish music and carols.
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A.
James Sansbury
James Sansbury is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Altera.
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B.
William J. Murtagh
William J. Murtagh was a prominent American architectural historian and preservationist who served as the first Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places.
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C.
George Deakin
George Deakin is an individual known for being a defendant in the 1979 English criminal case R v Thorpe and Others.
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D.
Thomas Burke
Thomas Burke was an American sprinter who became the first Olympic champion in both the 100-meter and 400-meter races at the modern Games.
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E.
Thomas Burke
Thomas Burke was an American politician who served as the third Governor of North Carolina during the early years of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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 Grattan Flood Description of subject: William Grattan Flood was an Irish musicologist, historian, and organist known for collecting and preserving traditional Irish music and carols.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.