Wead
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Wead is a surname most notably associated with Frank Wead, a pioneering U.S. naval aviator and screenwriter whose life inspired the film "The Wings of Eagles."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wead canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10243023 — 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: Wead Context triple: [Frank Wead, familyName, Wead]
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A.
Weaste
Weaste is a residential and industrial district within the city of Salford in Greater Manchester, England.
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B.
Wannweil
Wannweil is a small municipality in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany.
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C.
Weenen
Weenen is a small historic town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, known for its agricultural surroundings and proximity to the Weenen Game Reserve.
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D.
Weeting
Weeting is a small village and civil parish located near the Norfolk-Suffolk border in eastern England.
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E.
Weywot
Weywot is a small natural satellite orbiting the Kuiper Belt dwarf planet candidate Quaoar.
- 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: Wead Target entity description: Wead is a surname most notably associated with Frank Wead, a pioneering U.S. naval aviator and screenwriter whose life inspired the film "The Wings of Eagles."
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A.
Weaste
Weaste is a residential and industrial district within the city of Salford in Greater Manchester, England.
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B.
Wannweil
Wannweil is a small municipality in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany.
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C.
Weenen
Weenen is a small historic town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, known for its agricultural surroundings and proximity to the Weenen Game Reserve.
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D.
Weeting
Weeting is a small village and civil parish located near the Norfolk-Suffolk border in eastern England.
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E.
Weywot
Weywot is a small natural satellite orbiting the Kuiper Belt dwarf planet candidate Quaoar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of Frank Wead ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Navy ⓘ |
| familyName | Wead ⓘ |
| genre | biographical film ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank ⓘ |
| hasBiographySubject | The Wings of Eagles ⓘ |
| hasGenre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasNotableAssociation |
Hollywood screenwriting
ⓘ
U.S. naval aviation history ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Frank Wead ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Frank Wead ⓘ |
| notability |
Hollywood screenwriter
ⓘ
pioneering U.S. naval aviator ⓘ |
| notableWork | screenplays for Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation |
naval aviator
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| usedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Wead Description of subject: Wead is a surname most notably associated with Frank Wead, a pioneering U.S. naval aviator and screenwriter whose life inspired the film "The Wings of Eagles."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.