Ray Wood
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Ray Wood was an English footballer for Manchester United who survived the 1958 Munich air disaster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ray Wood canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2000131 — 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: Ray Wood Context triple: [Munich air disaster, survivor, Ray Wood]
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A.
Scott Norwood
Scott Norwood is a former NFL placekicker best known for his crucial missed field goal in Super Bowl XXV while playing for the Buffalo Bills.
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
Rod Wood
Rod Wood is an American sports executive best known for serving as the president of the NFL’s Detroit Lions.
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D.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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E.
Fred Robinson
Fred Robinson was an American jazz trombonist active in the 1920s and 1930s, known for his work with Louis Armstrong and other leading early jazz ensembles.
- 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: Ray Wood Target entity description: Ray Wood was an English footballer for Manchester United who survived the 1958 Munich air disaster.
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A.
Scott Norwood
Scott Norwood is a former NFL placekicker best known for his crucial missed field goal in Super Bowl XXV while playing for the Buffalo Bills.
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
Rod Wood
Rod Wood is an American sports executive best known for serving as the president of the NFL’s Detroit Lions.
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D.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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E.
Fred Robinson
Fred Robinson was an American jazz trombonist active in the 1920s and 1930s, known for his work with Louis Armstrong and other leading early jazz ensembles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | Manchester United F.C. ⓘ |
| familyName | Wood ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | professional football ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Raymond ⓘ |
| hasNationality | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| league | English Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Manchester United F.C. ⓘ |
| name | Ray Wood ⓘ |
| notableFor |
playing as goalkeeper for Manchester United
ⓘ
surviving the 1958 Munich air disaster ⓘ |
| occupation | footballer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1958 Munich air disaster
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linked to:
Munich air disaster
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| playedFor | Manchester United F.C. ⓘ |
| positionPlayedOnTeam | goalkeeper ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| sportCountry | England ⓘ |
| survivorOf |
1958 Munich air disaster
ⓘ
linked to:
Munich air disaster
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| teamRole | goalkeeper for Manchester United ⓘ |
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: Ray Wood Description of subject: Ray Wood was an English footballer for Manchester United who survived the 1958 Munich air disaster.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.