William Reynolds
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William Reynolds was the brother of Union Major General John F. Reynolds, a prominent officer in the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Reynolds canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7923706 — 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 Reynolds Context triple: [John F. Reynolds, hasSibling, William Reynolds]
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A.
William Reynolds
William Reynolds is a film editor best known for his work on the classic crime drama "The Godfather."
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B.
William Reynolds
William Reynolds was an American film and television actor known for his supporting roles in 1950s melodramas and later for co-starring in the TV series "The F.B.I."
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C.
William Reynolds
William Reynolds is a film editor known for his work on the 1960 adventure drama "Wild River."
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D.
David Reynolds
David Reynolds is an American screenwriter best known for his work on acclaimed animated films such as Pixar's "Finding Nemo."
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E.
Paul Reynolds
Paul Reynolds is a New Zealand politician and former chief executive of Telecom New Zealand, known for leading the company through major structural and technological changes.
- 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 Reynolds Target entity description: William Reynolds was the brother of Union Major General John F. Reynolds, a prominent officer in the American Civil War.
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A.
William Reynolds
William Reynolds is a film editor best known for his work on the classic crime drama "The Godfather."
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B.
William Reynolds
William Reynolds was an American film and television actor known for his supporting roles in 1950s melodramas and later for co-starring in the TV series "The F.B.I."
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C.
William Reynolds
William Reynolds is a film editor known for his work on the 1960 adventure drama "Wild River."
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D.
David Reynolds
David Reynolds is an American screenwriter best known for his work on acclaimed animated films such as Pixar's "Finding Nemo."
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E.
Paul Reynolds
Paul Reynolds is a New Zealand politician and former chief executive of Telecom New Zealand, known for leading the company through major structural and technological changes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| familyName | Reynolds ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Major General ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the brother of Union Major General John F. Reynolds ⓘ |
| relativeOf |
John F. Reynolds
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William Reynolds ⓘ |
| sibling |
John F. Reynolds
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William Reynolds ⓘ |
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 Reynolds Description of subject: William Reynolds was the brother of Union Major General John F. Reynolds, a prominent officer in the American Civil War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.