William Worth
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William Worth was a U.S. Army officer and Mexican–American War general after whom several American places, including Worth, Illinois, are named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Worth canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8878484 — 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 Worth Context triple: [Worth, Illinois, namedFor, William Worth]
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A.
James Sibley
James Sibley was a benefactor whose contributions to healthcare led to a major Washington, D.C. hospital being named in his honor.
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B.
Henry Holbrook
Henry Holbrook was a 19th-century Canadian politician and businessman who served as mayor of New Westminster, British Columbia.
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C.
William Wyatt
William Wyatt was an architect known for designing the influential 18th-century Soho Manufactory, a pioneering site of the Industrial Revolution in Birmingham, England.
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D.
William Davis Ticknor
William Davis Ticknor was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields.
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E.
William Mason
William Mason was an 18th-century English poet, clergyman, and close associate of Thomas Gray, known for his influential role in literary and artistic circles.
- 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 Worth Target entity description: William Worth was a U.S. Army officer and Mexican–American War general after whom several American places, including Worth, Illinois, are named.
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A.
James Sibley
James Sibley was a benefactor whose contributions to healthcare led to a major Washington, D.C. hospital being named in his honor.
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B.
Henry Holbrook
Henry Holbrook was a 19th-century Canadian politician and businessman who served as mayor of New Westminster, British Columbia.
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C.
William Wyatt
William Wyatt was an architect known for designing the influential 18th-century Soho Manufactory, a pioneering site of the Industrial Revolution in Birmingham, England.
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D.
William Davis Ticknor
William Davis Ticknor was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields.
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E.
William Mason
William Mason was an 18th-century English poet, clergyman, and close associate of Thomas Gray, known for his influential role in literary and artistic circles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mexican–American War veteran
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United States Army officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| conflict | Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Worth ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasPlaceNamedAfter |
Fort Worth, Texas
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Lake Worth, Texas ⓘ Worth County, Georgia ⓘ Worth County, Iowa ⓘ Worth County, Missouri ⓘ Worth County, North Carolina (historical) ⓘ Worth Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania ⓘ Worth Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania ⓘ Worth Township, Cook County, Illinois ⓘ Worth Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania ⓘ Worth Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania ⓘ Worth Township, Michigan ⓘ Worth Township, St. Louis County, Missouri ⓘ Worth, Illinois ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being namesake of multiple places in the United States
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service as a general in the Mexican–American War ⓘ |
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 Worth Description of subject: William Worth was a U.S. Army officer and Mexican–American War general after whom several American places, including Worth, Illinois, are named.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.