William Wilson
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William Wilson was a Scottish artist renowned for his stained glass, printmaking, and architectural sculpture in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Wilson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T803786 — 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 Wilson Context triple: [St Andrew's House, Edinburgh, hasSculpturalWorkBy, William Wilson]
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A.
Elias Loomis
Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
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B.
Silas Phelps
Silas Phelps is a kindly but morally conflicted Southern farmer and slave owner who appears as Tom Sawyer’s uncle in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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C.
Shadrach Bond
Shadrach Bond was an American politician who became the first governor of the state of Illinois after it was admitted to the Union.
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D.
Nathaniel
Nathaniel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of God," historically borne by various notable figures in literature, science, and religion.
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E.
Raymond
Raymond is the furry blue sea-dog mascot of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays, known for his playful antics at the team’s home games.
- 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 Wilson Target entity description: William Wilson was a Scottish artist renowned for his stained glass, printmaking, and architectural sculpture in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Elias Loomis
Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
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B.
Silas Phelps
Silas Phelps is a kindly but morally conflicted Southern farmer and slave owner who appears as Tom Sawyer’s uncle in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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C.
Shadrach Bond
Shadrach Bond was an American politician who became the first governor of the state of Illinois after it was admitted to the Union.
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D.
Nathaniel
Nathaniel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of God," historically borne by various notable figures in literature, science, and religion.
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E.
Raymond
Raymond is the furry blue sea-dog mascot of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays, known for his playful antics at the team’s home games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
20th-century artist
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architectural sculptor ⓘ artist ⓘ human ⓘ printmaker ⓘ stained glass artist ⓘ |
| activePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architectural sculpture
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printmaking ⓘ stained glass ⓘ |
| genre |
architectural art
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religious art ⓘ |
| movement | 20th-century Scottish art ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
architectural sculpture
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printmaking ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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printmaker ⓘ sculptor ⓘ stained glass designer ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
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 Wilson Description of subject: William Wilson was a Scottish artist renowned for his stained glass, printmaking, and architectural sculpture in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.