Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr.
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Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr. was an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist who served as president of the University of North Carolina system and led National Gypsum Company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5926234 — 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: Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr. Context triple: [Winston-Salem State University, notableAlumnus, Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr.]
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A.
Edman Spangler
Edman Spangler was a stagehand at Ford's Theatre who was implicated and later convicted as a minor conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Cleo Hill Jr.
Cleo Hill Jr. is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the Winston-Salem State Rams men's basketball program.
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C.
Dixie Cooney
Dixie Cooney is a beloved fictional character from the long-running American soap opera "All My Children," known for her dramatic romances and central role in many of the show's major storylines.
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D.
Kay Hilliard
Kay Hilliard is the central female protagonist in the 1956 musical film "The Opposite Sex," navigating love, betrayal, and personal growth within the world of high society marriages.
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E.
Bille Woodruff
Bille Woodruff is an American film and music video director known for his work with major R&B and pop artists as well as directing feature films like "Honey."
- 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: Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr. Target entity description: Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr. was an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist who served as president of the University of North Carolina system and led National Gypsum Company.
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A.
Edman Spangler
Edman Spangler was a stagehand at Ford's Theatre who was implicated and later convicted as a minor conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Cleo Hill Jr.
Cleo Hill Jr. is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the Winston-Salem State Rams men's basketball program.
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C.
Dixie Cooney
Dixie Cooney is a beloved fictional character from the long-running American soap opera "All My Children," known for her dramatic romances and central role in many of the show's major storylines.
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D.
Kay Hilliard
Kay Hilliard is the central female protagonist in the 1956 musical film "The Opposite Sex," navigating love, betrayal, and personal growth within the world of high society marriages.
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E.
Bille Woodruff
Bille Woodruff is an American film and music video director known for his work with major R&B and pop artists as well as directing feature films like "Honey."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
billionaire
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human ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Bank of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-04-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-07-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Business School
ⓘ
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
National Gypsum Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of North Carolina system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Spangler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
construction materials industry
ⓘ
higher education administration ⓘ |
| founded | C.D. Spangler Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Clemmie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Anna Spangler Nelson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
C.D. Spangler III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | building materials ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leading National Gypsum Company
ⓘ
philanthropic donations to education ⓘ serving as president of the University of North Carolina system ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| netWorth | billionaire status as reported by Forbes ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Distinguished Alumnus Award of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Horatio Alger Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leadership of National Gypsum Company
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leadership of the University of North Carolina system ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| philanthropicFocus |
higher education
ⓘ
public universities in North Carolina ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Charlotte, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Charlotte, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
leader of National Gypsum Company
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president of the University of North Carolina system ⓘ |
| residence | Charlotte, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Marianne P. Spangler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr. Description of subject: Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr. was an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist who served as president of the University of North Carolina system and led National Gypsum Company.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.