William Webb
E241006
William Webb was an Australian jurist who served as the chief judge of the post–World War II Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Webb canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1417143 — 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 Webb Context triple: [International Military Tribunal for the Far East, presidingJudge, William Webb]
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A.
William Rimmer
William Rimmer was a 19th-century British-born American artist, sculptor, and influential art teacher known for his anatomically precise and imaginative figure studies.
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B.
John Blatchley
John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
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C.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
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D.
Lloyd Bryce
Lloyd Bryce was an American editor, politician, and diplomat best known for his influential leadership of the North American Review in the late 19th century.
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E.
Francis Hughes
Francis Hughes was a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer from Northern Ireland who became widely known for dying on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981.
- 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 Webb Target entity description: William Webb was an Australian jurist who served as the chief judge of the post–World War II Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
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A.
William Rimmer
William Rimmer was a 19th-century British-born American artist, sculptor, and influential art teacher known for his anatomically precise and imaginative figure studies.
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B.
John Blatchley
John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
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C.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
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D.
Lloyd Bryce
Lloyd Bryce was an American editor, politician, and diplomat best known for his influential leadership of the North American Review in the late 19th century.
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E.
Francis Hughes
Francis Hughes was a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer from Northern Ireland who became widely known for dying on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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 Webb Description of subject: William Webb was an Australian jurist who served as the chief judge of the post–World War II Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.