William D. Porter
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William D. Porter was a 19th-century United States Navy officer known for his service during the American Civil War and as a member of the prominent Porter naval family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William D. Porter canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8475278 — 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 D. Porter Context triple: [David Porter, relative, William D. Porter]
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A.
William D. Porter
William D. Porter was a United States Navy officer best known for his controversial World War II service, including a series of mishaps that made his destroyer, USS William D. Porter, infamous.
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B.
William A. Porter
William A. Porter was an American businessman and technology pioneer best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
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C.
Salmon Portland Chase
Salmon Portland Chase was a 19th-century American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Treasury Secretary under Abraham Lincoln and later as Chief Justice of the United States.
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D.
James S. White
James S. White is a film producer best known for his work on the 1972 Billie Holiday biographical drama "Lady Sings the Blues."
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E.
Alfred Fitler Moore
Alfred Fitler Moore was a Philadelphia industrialist and philanthropist whose bequest led to the founding of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
- 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 D. Porter Target entity description: William D. Porter was a 19th-century United States Navy officer known for his service during the American Civil War and as a member of the prominent Porter naval family.
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A.
William D. Porter
William D. Porter was a United States Navy officer best known for his controversial World War II service, including a series of mishaps that made his destroyer, USS William D. Porter, infamous.
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B.
William A. Porter
William A. Porter was an American businessman and technology pioneer best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
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C.
Salmon Portland Chase
Salmon Portland Chase was a 19th-century American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Treasury Secretary under Abraham Lincoln and later as Chief Justice of the United States.
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D.
James S. White
James S. White is a film producer best known for his work on the 1972 Billie Holiday biographical drama "Lady Sings the Blues."
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E.
Alfred Fitler Moore
Alfred Fitler Moore was a Philadelphia industrialist and philanthropist whose bequest led to the founding of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy officer
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human ⓘ military personnel of the American Civil War ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Porter ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| memberOf | Porter naval family ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Porter family ⓘ |
| notableFor | service in the United States Navy during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableWork | service in the Union Navy during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | officer in the United States Navy ⓘ |
| relative |
David Dixon Porter
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David G. Farragut ⓘ
linked to:
Admiral David Farragut
David Porter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 D. Porter Description of subject: William D. Porter was a 19th-century United States Navy officer known for his service during the American Civil War and as a member of the prominent Porter naval family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.