William Ledyard
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William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death during the 1781 British attack on Fort Griswold in Groton, Connecticut.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Ledyard canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2478331 — 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 Ledyard Context triple: [British raid on New London, Connecticut, commander, William Ledyard]
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A.
Joseph Drake
Joseph Drake is a film producer and studio executive known for his work on numerous Hollywood comedies and genre films.
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B.
Samuel Blatchford
Samuel Blatchford was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his expertise in admiralty and patent law.
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C.
William Phipps
William Phipps was an American actor best known for providing the speaking voice of Prince Charming in Disney’s animated classic "Cinderella" (1950).
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D.
Samuel Holden
Samuel Holden was an influential 18th-century British politician and merchant whose prominence and philanthropy led to institutions such as Holden Chapel being named in his honor.
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E.
Cecil Smith
Cecil Smith is a personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as sports, the arts, and public service.
- 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 Ledyard Target entity description: William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death during the 1781 British attack on Fort Griswold in Groton, Connecticut.
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A.
Joseph Drake
Joseph Drake is a film producer and studio executive known for his work on numerous Hollywood comedies and genre films.
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B.
Samuel Blatchford
Samuel Blatchford was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his expertise in admiralty and patent law.
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C.
William Phipps
William Phipps was an American actor best known for providing the speaking voice of Prince Charming in Disney’s animated classic "Cinderella" (1950).
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D.
Samuel Holden
Samuel Holden was an influential 18th-century British politician and merchant whose prominence and philanthropy led to institutions such as Holden Chapel being named in his honor.
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E.
Cecil Smith
Cecil Smith is a personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as sports, the arts, and public service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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 Ledyard Description of subject: William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death during the 1781 British attack on Fort Griswold in Groton, Connecticut.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ledyard, Connecticut
subject surface form:
Battle of Groton Heights
subject surface form:
Fort Griswold