Otho Holland Williams
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Otho Holland Williams was an American Revolutionary War officer from Maryland who rose to prominence as a respected Continental Army commander and later served in various civic and military roles in the early United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Otho Holland Williams canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2209977 — 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: Otho Holland Williams Context triple: [Adjutant General of the Continental Army, positionHeldBy, Otho Holland Williams]
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A.
James Wood Johnson
James Wood Johnson was an American businessman and co-founder of the healthcare and consumer goods company Johnson & Johnson.
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B.
Frederick Wilson
Frederick Wilson is a film editor known for his work on the movie "On the Beat."
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C.
Henry T. Rainey
Henry T. Rainey was an American Democratic politician who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives during the early New Deal era under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Richmond K. Turner
Richmond K. Turner was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II, best known for his pivotal role in planning and directing major amphibious operations in the Pacific Theater.
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E.
Wilmer C. Butler
Wilmer C. Butler, better known as Bill Butler, was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on films such as "Jaws," "Rocky II–IV," and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest."
- 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: Otho Holland Williams Target entity description: Otho Holland Williams was an American Revolutionary War officer from Maryland who rose to prominence as a respected Continental Army commander and later served in various civic and military roles in the early United States.
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A.
James Wood Johnson
James Wood Johnson was an American businessman and co-founder of the healthcare and consumer goods company Johnson & Johnson.
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B.
Frederick Wilson
Frederick Wilson is a film editor known for his work on the movie "On the Beat."
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C.
Henry T. Rainey
Henry T. Rainey was an American Democratic politician who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives during the early New Deal era under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Richmond K. Turner
Richmond K. Turner was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II, best known for his pivotal role in planning and directing major amphibious operations in the Pacific Theater.
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E.
Wilmer C. Butler
Wilmer C. Butler, better known as Bill Butler, was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on films such as "Jaws," "Rocky II–IV," and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Otho Holland Williams Description of subject: Otho Holland Williams was an American Revolutionary War officer from Maryland who rose to prominence as a respected Continental Army commander and later served in various civic and military roles in the early United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.