William Jackson Worthington
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William Jackson Worthington was an American politician who served as the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Jackson Worthington canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9333161 — 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 Jackson Worthington Context triple: [Worthington, hasNotableBearer, William Jackson Worthington]
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A.
Henry Rossiter Worthington
Henry Rossiter Worthington was a 19th-century American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering improvements in steam pumping technology and helping to establish mechanical engineering as a formal profession.
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B.
William H. Worthington
William H. Worthington was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician who served as a justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
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C.
Foster McGowan Voorhees
Foster McGowan Voorhees was an American politician who served as the 30th governor of New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century.
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D.
William Fenwick Williams
William Fenwick Williams was a British Army officer best known for his distinguished leadership and defense of the fortress city of Kars during the Crimean War.
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E.
Edward William Titus
Edward William Titus was an American-born bookseller, publisher, and literary patron active in Paris’s expatriate community in the early 20th century.
- 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 Jackson Worthington Target entity description: William Jackson Worthington was an American politician who served as the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in the late 19th century.
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A.
Henry Rossiter Worthington
Henry Rossiter Worthington was a 19th-century American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering improvements in steam pumping technology and helping to establish mechanical engineering as a formal profession.
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B.
William H. Worthington
William H. Worthington was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician who served as a justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
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C.
Foster McGowan Voorhees
Foster McGowan Voorhees was an American politician who served as the 30th governor of New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century.
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D.
William Fenwick Williams
William Fenwick Williams was a British Army officer best known for his distinguished leadership and defense of the fortress city of Kars during the Crimean War.
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E.
Edward William Titus
Edward William Titus was an American-born bookseller, publisher, and literary patron active in Paris’s expatriate community in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Worthington ⓘ |
| floruit | late 19th century ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| middleName | Jackson ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 23 ⓘ |
| politicalSphere | state politics of Kentucky ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Kentucky ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Jackson Worthington Description of subject: William Jackson Worthington was an American politician who served as the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.