George Alfred Phillips
E1027051
George Alfred Phillips was the father of Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operator on the RMS Titanic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| George Alfred Phillips canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13203481 — 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: George Alfred Phillips Context triple: [Jack Phillips, parent, George Alfred Phillips]
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A.
Alfred Morton Githens
Alfred Morton Githens was an American architect known for his influential designs of major public libraries and cultural institutions in the early 20th century.
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B.
Walter Sturgeon
Walter Sturgeon was an American mycologist and mushroom expert known for his field guides and contributions to the study of North American fungi.
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C.
Frederic C. Williams
Frederic C. Williams was a British engineer and computer pioneer best known for co-inventing the Williams-Kilburn tube, an early form of computer memory used in some of the first stored-program computers.
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D.
William Dewhurst
William Dewhurst was an actor known for his role in the early 20th-century film "Sabotage."
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E.
William Barclay Parsons
William Barclay Parsons was an American civil engineer best known as the chief engineer responsible for designing and overseeing the construction of New York City's original subway system.
- 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: George Alfred Phillips Target entity description: George Alfred Phillips was the father of Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operator on the RMS Titanic.
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A.
Alfred Morton Githens
Alfred Morton Githens was an American architect known for his influential designs of major public libraries and cultural institutions in the early 20th century.
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B.
Walter Sturgeon
Walter Sturgeon was an American mycologist and mushroom expert known for his field guides and contributions to the study of North American fungi.
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C.
Frederic C. Williams
Frederic C. Williams was a British engineer and computer pioneer best known for co-inventing the Williams-Kilburn tube, an early form of computer memory used in some of the first stored-program computers.
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D.
William Dewhurst
William Dewhurst was an actor known for his role in the early 20th-century film "Sabotage."
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E.
William Barclay Parsons
William Barclay Parsons was an American civil engineer best known as the chief engineer responsible for designing and overseeing the construction of New York City's original subway system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Jack Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Jack Phillips, senior wireless operator on RMS Titanic ⓘ |
| 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: George Alfred Phillips Description of subject: George Alfred Phillips was the father of Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operator on the RMS Titanic.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.