William R. Shockley
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William R. Shockley was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William R. Shockley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2407141 — 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 R. Shockley Context triple: [Golden Gate National Cemetery, hasGraveOf, William R. Shockley]
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A.
William Shockley
William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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B.
John Bardeen
John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, uniquely renowned for being the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
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C.
Walter Brattain
Walter Brattain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-inventors of the transistor.
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D.
Jean Hoerni
Jean Hoerni was a Swiss-born physicist and engineer best known for inventing the planar process, a foundational technology that enabled the modern semiconductor and integrated circuit industry.
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E.
John Giaever
John Giaever is the son of Norwegian-American physicist and Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever.
- 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 R. Shockley Target entity description: William R. Shockley was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during World War II.
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A.
William Shockley
William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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B.
John Bardeen
John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, uniquely renowned for being the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
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C.
Walter Brattain
Walter Brattain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-inventors of the transistor.
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D.
Jean Hoerni
Jean Hoerni was a Swiss-born physicist and engineer best known for inventing the planar process, a foundational technology that enabled the modern semiconductor and integrated circuit industry.
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E.
John Giaever
John Giaever is the son of Norwegian-American physicist and Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Medal of Honor recipient
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United States Army soldier ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Medal of Honor ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Shockley
ⓘ
linked to:
William Shockley
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| genre | military service ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasRole |
American World War II recipient of the Medal of Honor
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United States Army personnel of World War II ⓘ
linked to:
United States Army personnel
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| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryOccupation | infantryman ⓘ |
| militaryRank | soldier ⓘ |
| notableFor | heroism during World War II ⓘ |
| notableWork | actions leading to Medal of Honor in World War II ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States armed forces in World War II
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Armed Forces in World War II
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| 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 R. Shockley Description of subject: William R. Shockley was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.