William B. Bates
E338200
William B. Bates was an American figure of sufficient local prominence or historical significance to be recognized as a notable burial at Glenwood Cemetery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William B. Bates canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3220011 — 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 B. Bates Context triple: [Glenwood Cemetery, notableBurial, William B. Bates]
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A.
L. C. Bates
L. C. Bates was an African American journalist and civil rights activist who co-founded and co-published the Arkansas State Press newspaper with his wife, Daisy Bates.
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B.
George Beard
George Beard is a creative, prank-loving elementary school student and amateur comic book artist who co-creates the Captain Underpants character in the Captain Underpants series.
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C.
H. M. Smith
H. M. Smith was a high-ranking United States Marine Corps officer whose leadership and service led to a major military installation being named in his honor.
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D.
Thomas Nelson Haskell
Thomas Nelson Haskell was a 19th-century American educator and Presbyterian minister best known for establishing Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
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E.
George Wells
George Wells was an American screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including several MGM musicals and comedies.
- 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 B. Bates Target entity description: William B. Bates was an American figure of sufficient local prominence or historical significance to be recognized as a notable burial at Glenwood Cemetery.
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A.
L. C. Bates
L. C. Bates was an African American journalist and civil rights activist who co-founded and co-published the Arkansas State Press newspaper with his wife, Daisy Bates.
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B.
George Beard
George Beard is a creative, prank-loving elementary school student and amateur comic book artist who co-creates the Captain Underpants character in the Captain Underpants series.
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C.
H. M. Smith
H. M. Smith was a high-ranking United States Marine Corps officer whose leadership and service led to a major military installation being named in his honor.
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D.
Thomas Nelson Haskell
Thomas Nelson Haskell was a 19th-century American educator and Presbyterian minister best known for establishing Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
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E.
George Wells
George Wells was an American screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including several MGM musicals and comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
notable burial ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasNotability |
historical significance
ⓘ
local prominence ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Glenwood Cemetery ⓘ |
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 B. Bates Description of subject: William B. Bates was an American figure of sufficient local prominence or historical significance to be recognized as a notable burial at Glenwood Cemetery.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Texas, United States