George Latimer
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George Latimer was an American lawyer and former Utah Supreme Court justice who served as defense counsel for Lieutenant William Calley during the My Lai massacre court-martial.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George Latimer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6124360 — 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: George Latimer Context triple: [court-martial of William Calley, hasDefenseCounsel, George Latimer]
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Isaac Johnson
Isaac Johnson was an early 17th-century English Puritan colonist and financier who played a key role in establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England.
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B.
Leonard Henderson
Leonard Henderson was an influential North Carolina jurist and public figure after whom the city of Hendersonville was named.
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C.
Henry Willis
Henry Willis was a prominent 19th-century English organ builder renowned for crafting some of the most celebrated pipe organs in Britain.
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D.
Henry Willis
Henry Willis was a businessman best known for establishing Willis Group Holdings, a major global insurance brokerage and risk management firm.
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E.
Charles Howard Walker
Charles Howard Walker was an American architect and designer active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his work on public monuments and institutional buildings.
- 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: George Latimer Target entity description: George Latimer was an American lawyer and former Utah Supreme Court justice who served as defense counsel for Lieutenant William Calley during the My Lai massacre court-martial.
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A.
Isaac Johnson
Isaac Johnson was an early 17th-century English Puritan colonist and financier who played a key role in establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England.
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B.
Leonard Henderson
Leonard Henderson was an influential North Carolina jurist and public figure after whom the city of Hendersonville was named.
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C.
Henry Willis
Henry Willis was a prominent 19th-century English organ builder renowned for crafting some of the most celebrated pipe organs in Britain.
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D.
Henry Willis
Henry Willis was a businessman best known for establishing Willis Group Holdings, a major global insurance brokerage and risk management firm.
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E.
Charles Howard Walker
Charles Howard Walker was an American architect and designer active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his work on public monuments and institutional buildings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Utah Supreme Court justice
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human ⓘ judge ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Utah Supreme Court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
criminal law
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law ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | defense counsel ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalRepresentationOf | Lieutenant William Calley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | George Latimer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in the My Lai massacre court-martial
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serving as defense counsel for Lieutenant William Calley ⓘ |
| notableWork | Defense of Lieutenant William Calley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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lawyer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
My Lai massacre court-martial
NERFINISHED
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court-martial of Lieutenant William Calley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Justice of the Utah Supreme Court ⓘ |
| workLocation | Utah 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: George Latimer Description of subject: George Latimer was an American lawyer and former Utah Supreme Court justice who served as defense counsel for Lieutenant William Calley during the My Lai massacre court-martial.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.