William Lewis Herndon Arthur
E160018
William Lewis Herndon Arthur was the son of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, known primarily for his connection to the 21st president’s family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Lewis Herndon Arthur canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T794831 — 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 Lewis Herndon Arthur Context triple: [Chester A. Arthur, child, William Lewis Herndon Arthur]
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A.
Henry J. F. Brown
Henry J. F. Brown was a naval officer who played a commanding role in the World War II Battle of Narvik.
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B.
Charles Henry
Charles Henry was a French mathematician, aesthetic theorist, and art critic whose ideas on color, line, and emotion significantly shaped the development of Neo-Impressionist art.
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C.
Philip Barton Key II
Philip Barton Key II was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, best known for his scandalous affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles and his subsequent murder by her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles.
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D.
William Terrell
William Terrell was an American politician and public figure from Georgia, honored as the namesake of Terrell County.
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E.
Holton D. Robinson
Holton D. Robinson was an American civil engineer noted for his work on major suspension bridges in the early 20th century.
- 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 Lewis Herndon Arthur Target entity description: William Lewis Herndon Arthur was the son of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, known primarily for his connection to the 21st president’s family.
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A.
Henry J. F. Brown
Henry J. F. Brown was a naval officer who played a commanding role in the World War II Battle of Narvik.
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B.
Charles Henry
Charles Henry was a French mathematician, aesthetic theorist, and art critic whose ideas on color, line, and emotion significantly shaped the development of Neo-Impressionist art.
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C.
Philip Barton Key II
Philip Barton Key II was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, best known for his scandalous affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles and his subsequent murder by her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles.
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D.
William Terrell
William Terrell was an American politician and public figure from Georgia, honored as the namesake of Terrell County.
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E.
Holton D. Robinson
Holton D. Robinson was an American civil engineer noted for his work on major suspension bridges in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Arthur ⓘ |
| father |
Chester A. Arthur
ⓘ
Chester Alan Arthur ⓘ
linked to:
Chester A. Arthur
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| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Chester A. Arthur
ⓘ
Ellen Herndon Arthur (sister) ⓘ
linked to:
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur ⓘ Mary McElroy ⓘ |
| mother | Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur ⓘ |
| namedAfter | William Lewis Herndon ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection | 21st President of the United States ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the son of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur ⓘ |
| partOf | Arthur family ⓘ |
| positionInFamily | son of the 21st U.S. president ⓘ |
| residence |
New York (historical)
ⓘ
linked to:
New York
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 Lewis Herndon Arthur Description of subject: William Lewis Herndon Arthur was the son of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, known primarily for his connection to the 21st president’s family.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.