William Clark
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William Clark was an American explorer, soldier, and territorial governor best known as the co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the Louisiana Purchase.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Clark canonical | 30 |
| Lewis and Clark Expedition member William Clark | 1 |
| William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T590472 — 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 Clark Context triple: [Paducah, Kentucky, foundedBy, William Clark]
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A.
Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, and politician best known for co-leading the Lewis and Clark Expedition that charted the newly acquired western territories of the United States.
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B.
Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
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C.
Kit Carson
Kit Carson was a 19th-century American frontiersman, explorer, and military scout renowned for his role in westward expansion and the mapping of the American West.
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D.
Auguste Chouteau
Auguste Chouteau was an 18th-century French-American fur trader and pioneer best known as a co-founder and early leader of the city of St. Louis.
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E.
John Armstrong
John Armstrong is a common personal name shared by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, the military, the arts, and academia.
- 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 Clark Target entity description: William Clark was an American explorer, soldier, and territorial governor best known as the co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the Louisiana Purchase.
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A.
Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, and politician best known for co-leading the Lewis and Clark Expedition that charted the newly acquired western territories of the United States.
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B.
Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
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C.
Kit Carson
Kit Carson was a 19th-century American frontiersman, explorer, and military scout renowned for his role in westward expansion and the mapping of the American West.
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D.
Auguste Chouteau
Auguste Chouteau was an 18th-century French-American fur trader and pioneer best known as a co-founder and early leader of the city of St. Louis.
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E.
John Armstrong
John Armstrong is a common personal name shared by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, the military, the arts, and academia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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 Clark Description of subject: William Clark was an American explorer, soldier, and territorial governor best known as the co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the Louisiana Purchase.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Paducah, Kentucky
this entity surface form:
William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
subject surface form:
Clark County, Washington
subject surface form:
Clark County, Washington
this entity surface form:
Lewis and Clark Expedition member William Clark