William Paca Lee
E685836
William Paca Lee was the father of Linda Lee Thomas, the American socialite who later became the wife of composer Cole Porter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Paca Lee canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7736889 — 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 Paca Lee Context triple: [Linda Lee Thomas, father, William Paca Lee]
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A.
William Paca
William Paca was an American Founding Father, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and governor of Maryland in the late 18th century.
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B.
Harry Lee
Harry Lee is an author whose work served as the literary basis for the film "All That Heaven Allows."
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C.
Charles Carroll Glover
Charles Carroll Glover was a prominent Washington, D.C. banker and philanthropist known for his major role in expanding and beautifying the city’s park system.
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D.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
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E.
Daniel Carroll
Daniel Carroll was an American Founding Father and Maryland planter who signed both the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution.
- 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 Paca Lee Target entity description: William Paca Lee was the father of Linda Lee Thomas, the American socialite who later became the wife of composer Cole Porter.
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A.
William Paca
William Paca was an American Founding Father, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and governor of Maryland in the late 18th century.
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B.
Harry Lee
Harry Lee is an author whose work served as the literary basis for the film "All That Heaven Allows."
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C.
Charles Carroll Glover
Charles Carroll Glover was a prominent Washington, D.C. banker and philanthropist known for his major role in expanding and beautifying the city’s park system.
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D.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
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E.
Daniel Carroll
Daniel Carroll was an American Founding Father and Maryland planter who signed both the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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father ⓘ human ⓘ |
| child | Linda Lee Thomas ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| father | William Paca Lee ⓘ |
| hasDaughter | Linda Lee Thomas ⓘ |
| spouse | Cole Porter ⓘ |
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 Paca Lee Description of subject: William Paca Lee was the father of Linda Lee Thomas, the American socialite who later became the wife of composer Cole Porter.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
William Paca Lee