William Augustine Washington
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William Augustine Washington was an American planter, soldier in the Revolutionary War, and prominent member of the extended family of George Washington.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Augustine Washington canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10177162 — 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 Augustine Washington Context triple: [Washington family, hasNotableMember, William Augustine Washington]
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A.
John Augustine Washington
John Augustine Washington was an 18th-century Virginia planter, politician, and member of the prominent Washington family, known as a younger brother of George Washington.
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B.
James Wood Johnson
James Wood Johnson was an American businessman and co-founder of the healthcare and consumer goods company Johnson & Johnson.
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C.
William Walton Sharman
William Walton Sharman was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, best known for his sharpshooting with the Boston Celtics and later coaching the Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA championship.
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D.
Frederick Wilson
Frederick Wilson is a film editor known for his work on the movie "On the Beat."
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E.
E.D. Washington
E.D. Washington is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, a federal trial court within the U.S. judiciary.
- 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 Augustine Washington Target entity description: William Augustine Washington was an American planter, soldier in the Revolutionary War, and prominent member of the extended family of George Washington.
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A.
John Augustine Washington
John Augustine Washington was an 18th-century Virginia planter, politician, and member of the prominent Washington family, known as a younger brother of George Washington.
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B.
James Wood Johnson
James Wood Johnson was an American businessman and co-founder of the healthcare and consumer goods company Johnson & Johnson.
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C.
William Walton Sharman
William Walton Sharman was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, best known for his sharpshooting with the Boston Celtics and later coaching the Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA championship.
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D.
Frederick Wilson
Frederick Wilson is a film editor known for his work on the movie "On the Beat."
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E.
E.D. Washington
E.D. Washington is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, a federal trial court within the U.S. judiciary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American planter
ⓘ
American soldier ⓘ member of the Washington family ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| memberOf | extended family of George Washington ⓘ |
| middleName | Augustine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRelative | George Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
planter
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary 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 Augustine Washington Description of subject: William Augustine Washington was an American planter, soldier in the Revolutionary War, and prominent member of the extended family of George Washington.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.