William Prince Ford
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William Prince Ford was a 19th-century Louisiana plantation owner and Baptist minister best known as the first enslaver of Solomon Northup, whose memoir "Twelve Years a Slave" recounts Ford's role in his captivity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Prince Ford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9113716 — 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 Prince Ford Context triple: [William Ford, basedOn, William Prince Ford]
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A.
Edsel Ford
Edsel Ford was an American business executive and the only son of Henry Ford, best known for serving as president of the Ford Motor Company during the early 20th century.
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B.
Steven Meigs Ford
Steven Meigs Ford is the son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.
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C.
Benson Ford
Benson Ford was an American businessman and prominent member of the Ford family who held executive roles at Ford Motor Company in the mid-20th century.
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D.
William Clay Ford Sr.
William Clay Ford Sr. was an American businessman and member of the Ford family who owned the Detroit Lions and held various leadership roles within the Ford Motor Company.
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E.
Thomas Ford
Thomas Ford was an American politician who served as the eighth governor of Illinois from 1842 to 1846.
- 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 Prince Ford Target entity description: William Prince Ford was a 19th-century Louisiana plantation owner and Baptist minister best known as the first enslaver of Solomon Northup, whose memoir "Twelve Years a Slave" recounts Ford's role in his captivity.
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A.
Edsel Ford
Edsel Ford was an American business executive and the only son of Henry Ford, best known for serving as president of the Ford Motor Company during the early 20th century.
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B.
Steven Meigs Ford
Steven Meigs Ford is the son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.
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C.
Benson Ford
Benson Ford was an American businessman and prominent member of the Ford family who held executive roles at Ford Motor Company in the mid-20th century.
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D.
William Clay Ford Sr.
William Clay Ford Sr. was an American businessman and member of the Ford family who owned the Detroit Lions and held various leadership roles within the Ford Motor Company.
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E.
Thomas Ford
Thomas Ford was an American politician who served as the eighth governor of Illinois from 1842 to 1846.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Baptist minister
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human ⓘ plantation owner ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | self-employed plantation owner ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | white American ⓘ |
| familyName | Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfAssociatedWork | slave narrative ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasReligionPosition | Baptist preacher ⓘ |
| hasRole | slave owner ⓘ |
| hasSlave | Solomon Northup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
appearance in the memoir "Twelve Years a Slave"
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being the first enslaver of Solomon Northup ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Prince ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
purchase of Solomon Northup as an enslaved man
ⓘ
sale of Solomon Northup to Edwin Epps ⓘ |
| notableWork | role described in "Twelve Years a Slave" ⓘ |
| occupation |
Baptist minister
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planter ⓘ |
| partOf | antebellum slaveholding society of the American South ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Louisiana plantations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| residence | Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialStatus | member of the Southern planter class ⓘ |
| subjectOf | "Twelve Years a Slave" by Solomon Northup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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 Prince Ford Description of subject: William Prince Ford was a 19th-century Louisiana plantation owner and Baptist minister best known as the first enslaver of Solomon Northup, whose memoir "Twelve Years a Slave" recounts Ford's role in his captivity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.