William C. Paley
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William C. Paley is the son of American broadcasting executive William S. Paley, the influential founder of CBS.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William C. Paley canonical | 4 |
| William Cushing Paley | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1944213 — 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 C. Paley Context triple: [William S. Paley, child, William C. Paley]
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A.
William S. Paley
William S. Paley was an American broadcasting executive who built CBS into one of the dominant radio and television networks in the United States.
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B.
Walter A. Brown
Walter A. Brown was an American sports executive best known for helping establish the NBA and building the Boston Celtics into a championship franchise.
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C.
George Burroughs
George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Philip Church
Philip Church is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Church surname.
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E.
William Rees Sears
William Rees Sears was an American aeronautical engineer and educator known for his influential work in aerodynamics and aircraft design.
- 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 C. Paley Target entity description: William C. Paley is the son of American broadcasting executive William S. Paley, the influential founder of CBS.
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A.
William S. Paley
William S. Paley was an American broadcasting executive who built CBS into one of the dominant radio and television networks in the United States.
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B.
Walter A. Brown
Walter A. Brown was an American sports executive best known for helping establish the NBA and building the Boston Celtics into a championship franchise.
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C.
George Burroughs
George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Philip Church
Philip Church is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Church surname.
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E.
William Rees Sears
William Rees Sears was an American aeronautical engineer and educator known for his influential work in aerodynamics and aircraft design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| child | William C. Paley ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Paley ⓘ |
| father | William S. Paley ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Paley family ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding CBS ⓘ |
| occupation | broadcasting executive ⓘ |
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 C. Paley Description of subject: William C. Paley is the son of American broadcasting executive William S. Paley, the influential founder of CBS.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: William C. Paley
subject linked to:
William C. Paley
subject linked to:
broadcasting executive William S. Paley