William B. Travis
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William B. Travis was a 19th-century American lawyer and soldier best known for co-commanding the Texian forces and dying in the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William B. Travis canonical | 8 |
| William Barret Travis | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1019504 — 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 B. Travis Context triple: [Texas Revolution, commander, William B. Travis]
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A.
James Fannin
James Fannin was a 19th-century American-born Texian military leader best known for his role in the Texas Revolution and his execution following the Goliad Massacre.
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B.
Sam Houston
Sam Houston was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and military leader best known for securing Texas’s independence from Mexico and serving as both President of the Republic of Texas and later Governor of Texas.
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C.
Stephen F. Austin
Stephen F. Austin was an early American empresario known as the "Father of Texas" for leading the successful colonization of the region by Anglo-American settlers.
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D.
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Mirabeau B. Lamar was the second president of the Republic of Texas, known for his expansionist policies and efforts to promote public education.
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E.
Thomas Ewing
Thomas Ewing was a 19th-century American politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and held multiple cabinet positions, including being the inaugural Secretary of the Interior.
- 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 B. Travis Target entity description: William B. Travis was a 19th-century American lawyer and soldier best known for co-commanding the Texian forces and dying in the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution.
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A.
James Fannin
James Fannin was a 19th-century American-born Texian military leader best known for his role in the Texas Revolution and his execution following the Goliad Massacre.
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B.
Sam Houston
Sam Houston was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and military leader best known for securing Texas’s independence from Mexico and serving as both President of the Republic of Texas and later Governor of Texas.
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C.
Stephen F. Austin
Stephen F. Austin was an early American empresario known as the "Father of Texas" for leading the successful colonization of the region by Anglo-American settlers.
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D.
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Mirabeau B. Lamar was the second president of the Republic of Texas, known for his expansionist policies and efforts to promote public education.
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E.
Thomas Ewing
Thomas Ewing was a 19th-century American politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and held multiple cabinet positions, including being the inaugural Secretary of the Interior.
- 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: William B. Travis Description of subject: William B. Travis was a 19th-century American lawyer and soldier best known for co-commanding the Texian forces and dying in the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William Barret Travis
this entity surface form:
William Barret Travis