William B. Worthington
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William B. Worthington is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the Worthington name.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William B. Worthington canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9333179 — 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 B. Worthington Context triple: [Worthington, hasNotableBearer, William B. Worthington]
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A.
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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B.
George Worthington
George Worthington is a notable individual who shares the surname Worthington and is recognized as one of its distinguished bearers.
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C.
Charles Worthington
Charles Worthington is a British celebrity hairdresser and founder of the Charles Worthington haircare brand and salon chain.
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D.
Charles Tiffin
Charles Tiffin was a 19th-century architect best known for designing prominent public buildings in Queensland, Australia.
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E.
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.
- 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 B. Worthington Target entity description: William B. Worthington is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the Worthington name.
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A.
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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B.
George Worthington
George Worthington is a notable individual who shares the surname Worthington and is recognized as one of its distinguished bearers.
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C.
Charles Worthington
Charles Worthington is a British celebrity hairdresser and founder of the Charles Worthington haircare brand and salon chain.
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D.
Charles Tiffin
Charles Tiffin was a 19th-century architect best known for designing prominent public buildings in Queensland, Australia.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| familyName | Worthington ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| name | William B. Worthington ⓘ |
| notability | prominent bearer of the Worthington name ⓘ |
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 B. Worthington Description of subject: William B. Worthington is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the Worthington name.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.