William Waterhouse
E211980
William Waterhouse was the father of the renowned British painter John William Waterhouse, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Waterhouse canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1909745 — 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 Waterhouse Context triple: [John William Waterhouse, father, William Waterhouse]
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A.
Henry Blyth
Henry Blyth was a screenwriter known for his work on the film "The Early Bird."
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B.
George Falconer
George Falconer is the introspective, grief-stricken English professor at the center of Christopher Isherwood’s novel and its film adaptation "A Single Man," whose single day of contemplation and routine reveals his struggle with loss and identity.
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C.
George Swanson Starling
George Swanson Starling was a key African American migrant whose life story in the early and mid-20th century exemplifies the struggles and aspirations of the Great Migration chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s work.
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D.
Thomas Horsfield
Thomas Horsfield was a 19th-century American physician and naturalist known for his influential zoological and botanical work in Southeast Asia.
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E.
George Crow
George Crow is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his early work at Apple and as a co-founder of NeXT Inc. alongside Steve Jobs.
- 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 Waterhouse Target entity description: William Waterhouse was the father of the renowned British painter John William Waterhouse, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
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A.
Henry Blyth
Henry Blyth was a screenwriter known for his work on the film "The Early Bird."
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B.
George Falconer
George Falconer is the introspective, grief-stricken English professor at the center of Christopher Isherwood’s novel and its film adaptation "A Single Man," whose single day of contemplation and routine reveals his struggle with loss and identity.
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C.
George Swanson Starling
George Swanson Starling was a key African American migrant whose life story in the early and mid-20th century exemplifies the struggles and aspirations of the Great Migration chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s work.
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D.
Thomas Horsfield
Thomas Horsfield was a 19th-century American physician and naturalist known for his influential zoological and botanical work in Southeast Asia.
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E.
George Crow
George Crow is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his early work at Apple and as a co-founder of NeXT Inc. alongside Steve Jobs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| child | John William Waterhouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| father | William Waterhouse ⓘ |
| fatherOf | John William Waterhouse ⓘ |
| movement | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ⓘ |
| notableRelative | John William Waterhouse ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
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painter ⓘ |
| parent | William Waterhouse ⓘ |
| 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 Waterhouse Description of subject: William Waterhouse was the father of the renowned British painter John William Waterhouse, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.