J. Houston Gordon
E588723
J. Houston Gordon is an American attorney best known for serving as a defense lawyer for Lieutenant William Calley in the My Lai massacre court-martial during the Vietnam War era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| J. Houston Gordon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6124361 — 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: J. Houston Gordon Context triple: [court-martial of William Calley, hasDefenseCounsel, J. Houston Gordon]
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A.
Hilton Smith
Hilton Smith was an American Negro League pitcher renowned for his exceptional curveball and success with the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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C.
Ned H. Houston
Ned H. Houston was a prominent figure associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, honored for his contributions by having the Houston Field House ice arena named after him.
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D.
W. O. Gant
W. O. Gant is a passionate, larger-than-life stonecutter and the domineering, often volatile father figure in Thomas Wolfe’s autobiographical novel "Look Homeward, Angel."
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E.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
- 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: J. Houston Gordon Target entity description: J. Houston Gordon is an American attorney best known for serving as a defense lawyer for Lieutenant William Calley in the My Lai massacre court-martial during the Vietnam War era.
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A.
Hilton Smith
Hilton Smith was an American Negro League pitcher renowned for his exceptional curveball and success with the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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C.
Ned H. Houston
Ned H. Houston was a prominent figure associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, honored for his contributions by having the Houston Field House ice arena named after him.
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D.
W. O. Gant
W. O. Gant is a passionate, larger-than-life stonecutter and the domineering, often volatile father figure in Thomas Wolfe’s autobiographical novel "Look Homeward, Angel."
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E.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
attorney
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | Vietnam War era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | criminal defense law ⓘ |
| notableFor |
My Lai massacre court-martial
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
defense of Lieutenant William Calley ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
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defense lawyer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | court-martial of Lieutenant William Calley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represented | William Calley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | defense counsel in My Lai massacre court-martial ⓘ |
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: J. Houston Gordon Description of subject: J. Houston Gordon is an American attorney best known for serving as a defense lawyer for Lieutenant William Calley in the My Lai massacre court-martial during the Vietnam War era.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.