Willie Sutton
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Willie Sutton was a notorious 20th-century American bank robber famed for his multiple prison escapes and the apocryphal quote that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Willie Sutton canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T105333 — 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: Willie Sutton Context triple: [Eastern State Penitentiary, notableInmate, Willie Sutton]
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A.
Al Capone
Al Capone was a notorious American gangster and crime boss of the Prohibition era, best known for leading the Chicago Outfit and becoming an enduring symbol of organized crime in the United States.
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B.
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a notorious American mobster and key architect of organized crime’s expansion into Las Vegas, becoming one of the most infamous figures of the early 20th-century underworld.
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C.
Joe Klecko
Joe Klecko is a former American football defensive lineman best known as a dominant member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" and a Pro Football Hall of Famer.
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D.
Rich Gotham
Rich Gotham is an American sports executive best known for serving as the president of the NBA’s Boston Celtics.
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E.
Uncle Joe
Uncle Joe is a colloquial nickname for Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator who led the USSR through World War II and oversaw widespread political repression.
- 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: Willie Sutton Target entity description: Willie Sutton was a notorious 20th-century American bank robber famed for his multiple prison escapes and the apocryphal quote that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is."
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A.
Al Capone
Al Capone was a notorious American gangster and crime boss of the Prohibition era, best known for leading the Chicago Outfit and becoming an enduring symbol of organized crime in the United States.
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B.
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a notorious American mobster and key architect of organized crime’s expansion into Las Vegas, becoming one of the most infamous figures of the early 20th-century underworld.
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C.
Joe Klecko
Joe Klecko is a former American football defensive lineman best known as a dominant member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" and a Pro Football Hall of Famer.
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D.
Rich Gotham
Rich Gotham is an American sports executive best known for serving as the president of the NBA’s Boston Celtics.
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E.
Uncle Joe
Uncle Joe is a colloquial nickname for Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator who led the USSR through World War II and oversaw widespread political repression.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Willie Sutton Description of subject: Willie Sutton was a notorious 20th-century American bank robber famed for his multiple prison escapes and the apocryphal quote that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sutton's law
subject surface form:
Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber