Bill Mauldin
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Bill Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist and World War II veteran best known for his gritty, satirical depictions of soldiers and postwar political commentary.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill Mauldin canonical | 14 |
| William Mauldin | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1637571 — 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: Bill Mauldin Context triple: [Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, notableRecipient, Bill Mauldin]
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Clarence Edmonds Hemingway
Clarence Edmonds Hemingway was an American physician and the father of novelist Ernest Hemingway, known for his influence on Ernest’s early life and interests in nature and outdoor activities.
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B.
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
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C.
Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane was an influential American author and journalist best known for his novel "The Red Badge of Courage" and his pioneering contributions to literary realism and naturalism.
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D.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was a 20th-century American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist renowned for his terse prose style and classics such as "The Old Man and the Sea," "A Farewell to Arms," and "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
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E.
Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn was a renowned American war correspondent and novelist, celebrated for her vivid frontline reporting across multiple 20th-century conflicts.
- 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: Bill Mauldin Target entity description: Bill Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist and World War II veteran best known for his gritty, satirical depictions of soldiers and postwar political commentary.
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A.
Clarence Edmonds Hemingway
Clarence Edmonds Hemingway was an American physician and the father of novelist Ernest Hemingway, known for his influence on Ernest’s early life and interests in nature and outdoor activities.
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B.
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
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C.
Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane was an influential American author and journalist best known for his novel "The Red Badge of Courage" and his pioneering contributions to literary realism and naturalism.
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D.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was a 20th-century American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist renowned for his terse prose style and classics such as "The Old Man and the Sea," "A Farewell to Arms," and "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
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E.
Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn was a renowned American war correspondent and novelist, celebrated for her vivid frontline reporting across multiple 20th-century conflicts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Bill Mauldin Description of subject: Bill Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist and World War II veteran best known for his gritty, satirical depictions of soldiers and postwar political commentary.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bill Mauldin