Ted W. Lawson
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Ted W. Lawson was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in the Doolittle Raid during World War II who later chronicled his experiences in the memoir "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ted W. Lawson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2855837 — 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: Ted W. Lawson Context triple: [Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, authorOfSourceWork, Ted W. Lawson]
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A.
Roger K. Furse
Roger K. Furse was a British costume and production designer renowned for his work on classic films, including being among the earliest recipients of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
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B.
Lawrence Raymond
Lawrence Raymond was a son of Henry Jarvis Raymond, the influential 19th-century American journalist, politician, and co-founder of The New York Times.
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C.
Roger E. Broggie
Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
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D.
Roger D. Lapham
Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
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E.
Robert T. Herres
Robert T. Herres was a United States Air Force general who became the first Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a key leader in U.S. military space and strategic command operations.
- 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: Ted W. Lawson Target entity description: Ted W. Lawson was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in the Doolittle Raid during World War II who later chronicled his experiences in the memoir "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo."
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A.
Roger K. Furse
Roger K. Furse was a British costume and production designer renowned for his work on classic films, including being among the earliest recipients of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
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B.
Lawrence Raymond
Lawrence Raymond was a son of Henry Jarvis Raymond, the influential 19th-century American journalist, politician, and co-founder of The New York Times.
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C.
Roger E. Broggie
Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
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D.
Roger D. Lapham
Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
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E.
Robert T. Herres
Robert T. Herres was a United States Air Force general who became the first Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a key leader in U.S. military space and strategic command operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army Air Forces officer
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human ⓘ memoirist ⓘ military aviator ⓘ |
| basedOn | events of the Doolittle Raid ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Lawson ⓘ |
| genre | war memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Ted ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryForm | memoir ⓘ |
| hasRepresentationInMedia | Hollywood war film adaptation of "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" ⓘ |
| hasRole | B-25 bomber pilot ⓘ |
| hasSubject | U.S. Army Air Forces operations in early World War II ⓘ |
| influenced | public understanding of the Doolittle Raid ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer in the United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Tokyo air raids
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surface form:
Tokyo air raid of 18 April 1942
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| notableFor | firsthand account of the Doolittle Raid ⓘ |
| notableWork | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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pilot ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Doolittle Raid ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Pacific War
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surface form:
Pacific Theater of World War II
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| subjectOf | film "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" ⓘ |
| workDescribes |
crash and aftermath of his Doolittle Raid mission
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training and execution of the Doolittle Raid ⓘ |
| wrote | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ⓘ |
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: Ted W. Lawson Description of subject: Ted W. Lawson was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in the Doolittle Raid during World War II who later chronicled his experiences in the memoir "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
subject surface form:
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
subject surface form:
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
subject surface form:
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo