Bryan DeWitt
E338462
Bryan DeWitt is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the De Witt surname.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bryan De Witt | 1 |
| Bryan DeWitt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2272868 — 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: Bryan DeWitt Context triple: [De Witt, hasNotableBearer, Bryan DeWitt]
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A.
Robert De Witt
Robert De Witt is a person notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname De Witt.
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B.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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C.
Jeffrey Paley
Jeffrey Paley is the son of longtime CBS chairman William S. Paley and a member of the prominent Paley media family.
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D.
John Boettiger
John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
- 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: Bryan DeWitt Target entity description: Bryan DeWitt is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the De Witt surname.
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A.
Robert De Witt
Robert De Witt is a person notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname De Witt.
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B.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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C.
Jeffrey Paley
Jeffrey Paley is the son of longtime CBS chairman William S. Paley and a member of the prominent Paley media family.
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D.
John Boettiger
John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| hasSurname |
De Witt
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DeWitt ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Bryan De Witt
ⓘ
linked to:
Bryan DeWitt
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| notableAs | bearer of the De Witt surname ⓘ |
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: Bryan DeWitt Description of subject: Bryan DeWitt is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the De Witt surname.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bryan DeWitt