Winder
E172390
Winder is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including military figures and public officials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Winder canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1510964 — 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: Winder Context triple: [William H. Winder, familyName, Winder]
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A.
Winder, Georgia
Winder, Georgia is a small city in northeastern Georgia that serves as the county seat of Barrow County and is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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B.
Menifee
Menifee is a rapidly growing suburban city in Southern California known for its residential communities and proximity to major Inland Empire urban centers.
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C.
Satara
Satara is a historic city in the Indian state of Maharashtra, known for its role as a key political and cultural center of the Maratha dynasty.
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D.
Golden Bend
Golden Bend is the most prestigious and architecturally grand stretch of Amsterdam’s Herengracht canal, famed for its wide, opulent canal houses built by the city’s wealthy elite in the 17th century.
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E.
Linwood
Linwood is a small Scottish town in Renfrewshire, near Paisley, known historically for its car manufacturing and as a residential commuter community for the Greater Glasgow area.
- 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: Winder Target entity description: Winder is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including military figures and public officials.
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A.
Winder, Georgia
Winder, Georgia is a small city in northeastern Georgia that serves as the county seat of Barrow County and is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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B.
Menifee
Menifee is a rapidly growing suburban city in Southern California known for its residential communities and proximity to major Inland Empire urban centers.
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C.
Satara
Satara is a historic city in the Indian state of Maharashtra, known for its role as a key political and cultural center of the Maratha dynasty.
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D.
Golden Bend
Golden Bend is the most prestigious and architecturally grand stretch of Amsterdam’s Herengracht canal, famed for its wide, opulent canal houses built by the city’s wealthy elite in the 17th century.
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E.
Linwood
Linwood is a small Scottish town in Renfrewshire, near Paisley, known historically for its car manufacturing and as a residential commuter community for the Greater Glasgow area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
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person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory | surnames of English origin ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Abel Winder
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Frank Winder ⓘ Graham Winder ⓘ John H. Winder NERFINISHED ⓘ Levin Winder ⓘ Patricia Winder ⓘ Robert Winder ⓘ Sam Winder ⓘ William H. Winder ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | England ⓘ |
| hasSurname |
Winder
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Winder ⓘ Winder ⓘ Winder ⓘ Winder ⓘ Winder ⓘ Winder ⓘ Winder ⓘ |
| occupation |
chemist
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military officer ⓘ military officer ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ politician ⓘ politician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Maryland ⓘ |
| servedIn |
Confederate States Army
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United States Army ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
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: Winder Description of subject: Winder is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including military figures and public officials.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.