William Woodford
E246959
William Woodford was an American Revolutionary War officer and Virginia military leader after whom Woodford County, Kentucky, is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Woodford canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2242922 — 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 Woodford Context triple: [Woodford County, Kentucky, namedFor, William Woodford]
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A.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
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B.
William Draper
William Draper was an 18th-century British Army officer best known for leading British forces in the capture of Manila during the Seven Years' War.
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C.
William Phipps
William Phipps was an American actor best known for providing the speaking voice of Prince Charming in Disney’s animated classic "Cinderella" (1950).
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D.
Thomas Worthington
Thomas Worthington was an English Catholic priest and scholar best known for his role in editing and promoting the Douay–Rheims Bible during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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E.
Samuel Blatchford
Samuel Blatchford was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his expertise in admiralty and patent law.
- 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 Woodford Target entity description: William Woodford was an American Revolutionary War officer and Virginia military leader after whom Woodford County, Kentucky, is named.
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A.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
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B.
William Draper
William Draper was an 18th-century British Army officer best known for leading British forces in the capture of Manila during the Seven Years' War.
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C.
William Phipps
William Phipps was an American actor best known for providing the speaking voice of Prince Charming in Disney’s animated classic "Cinderella" (1950).
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D.
Thomas Worthington
Thomas Worthington was an English Catholic priest and scholar best known for his role in editing and promoting the Douay–Rheims Bible during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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E.
Samuel Blatchford
Samuel Blatchford was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his expertise in admiralty and patent law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American military officer
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Continental Army officer ⓘ Virginia militia officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Colony of Virginia
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linked to:
Colony and Dominion of Virginia
United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American colonists ⓘ |
| familyName | Woodford ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasHonor | Woodford County, Kentucky, named in his honor ⓘ |
| historicalEvent |
American Revolution
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linked to:
American Revolutionary War
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| historicalPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Continental Army
ⓘ
Virginia militia ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| namedAfter | William Woodford ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being namesake of Woodford County, Kentucky
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leadership as a Virginia military officer ⓘ service as an officer in the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| occupation |
military leader
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| residence | Virginia ⓘ |
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 Woodford Description of subject: William Woodford was an American Revolutionary War officer and Virginia military leader after whom Woodford County, Kentucky, is named.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.