Edward Martin Waller
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Edward Martin Waller was the father of famed American jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward Martin Waller canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10241304 — 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: Edward Martin Waller Context triple: [Fats Waller, father, Edward Martin Waller]
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A.
Christopher Wolstenholme
Christopher Wolstenholme is an English musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for the rock band Muse.
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B.
Edwin Duncan Sandys
Edwin Duncan Sandys was a prominent British Conservative politician and government minister, known for his roles in defense and colonial policy during the mid-20th century and as the son-in-law of Winston Churchill.
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C.
James Fitton
James Fitton was a notable individual significant enough to have the College of the Holy Cross baseball stadium, Fitton Field, named in his honor.
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D.
Richard Doddridge
Richard Doddridge was a 19th-century English novelist best known for writing the historical romance "Lorna Doone."
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E.
William Humphrey
William Humphrey was an American actor and director of the silent film era, known for his character roles in early 20th-century cinema.
- 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: Edward Martin Waller Target entity description: Edward Martin Waller was the father of famed American jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller.
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A.
Christopher Wolstenholme
Christopher Wolstenholme is an English musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for the rock band Muse.
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B.
Edwin Duncan Sandys
Edwin Duncan Sandys was a prominent British Conservative politician and government minister, known for his roles in defense and colonial policy during the mid-20th century and as the son-in-law of Winston Churchill.
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C.
James Fitton
James Fitton was a notable individual significant enough to have the College of the Holy Cross baseball stadium, Fitton Field, named in his honor.
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D.
Richard Doddridge
Richard Doddridge was a 19th-century English novelist best known for writing the historical romance "Lorna Doone."
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E.
William Humphrey
William Humphrey was an American actor and director of the silent film era, known for his character roles in early 20th-century cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Fats Waller ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
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| familyName | Waller ⓘ |
| father | Edward Martin Waller ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Fats Waller ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| middleName | Martin ⓘ |
| 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: Edward Martin Waller Description of subject: Edward Martin Waller was the father of famed American jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Edward Martin Waller