William R. Anderson
E1050417
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William R. Anderson was a U.S. Navy submarine commander best known for leading the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus on the first submerged transit of the North Pole during the Cold War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William R. Anderson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10778362 — 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 R. Anderson Context triple: [Operation Sunshine, commandedBy, William R. Anderson]
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A.
William G. Anderson
William G. Anderson was an American osteopathic physician and prominent civil rights leader who helped spearhead desegregation efforts in the early 1960s.
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B.
William M. Anderson
William M. Anderson is an editor best known for his work on the film "Breaker Morant."
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C.
William S. Andrews
William S. Andrews was an American judge best known for his influential dissent in the landmark tort law case Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., which helped shape modern concepts of proximate cause.
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D.
William A. Elliott
William A. Elliott is a film art director known for his production design work on movies such as "Action Jackson."
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E.
William B. Woods
William B. Woods was a 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative rulings during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.
- 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 R. Anderson Target entity description: William R. Anderson was a U.S. Navy submarine commander best known for leading the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus on the first submerged transit of the North Pole during the Cold War.
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A.
William G. Anderson
William G. Anderson was an American osteopathic physician and prominent civil rights leader who helped spearhead desegregation efforts in the early 1960s.
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B.
William M. Anderson
William M. Anderson is an editor best known for his work on the film "Breaker Morant."
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C.
William S. Andrews
William S. Andrews was an American judge best known for his influential dissent in the landmark tort law case Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., which helped shape modern concepts of proximate cause.
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D.
William A. Elliott
William A. Elliott is a film art director known for his production design work on movies such as "Action Jackson."
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E.
William B. Woods
William B. Woods was a 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative rulings during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.