William Crawford
E338967
William Crawford was the husband of American film and television actress Faye Emerson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Crawford canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3225315 — 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 Crawford Context triple: [Faye Emerson, spouse, William Crawford]
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A.
Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass was a prominent 19th-century American statesman, military officer, and diplomat who served as governor of Michigan Territory, U.S. senator, secretary of war, and Democratic presidential candidate.
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B.
Jervis Pendleton III
Jervis Pendleton III is the wealthy, middle-aged benefactor and eventual love interest of the orphaned heroine in the 1955 musical film "Daddy Long Legs."
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C.
Franklin Buchanan
Franklin Buchanan was a prominent 19th-century American naval officer who became the Confederacy’s most famous admiral, best known for commanding the ironclad CSS Virginia during the American Civil War.
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D.
Joshua Barney
Joshua Barney was an American naval officer and privateer who served with distinction in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
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E.
William H. Crawford
William H. Crawford was an influential early 19th-century American politician and statesman who served as U.S. senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, and a presidential candidate.
- 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 Crawford Target entity description: William Crawford was the husband of American film and television actress Faye Emerson.
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A.
Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass was a prominent 19th-century American statesman, military officer, and diplomat who served as governor of Michigan Territory, U.S. senator, secretary of war, and Democratic presidential candidate.
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B.
Jervis Pendleton III
Jervis Pendleton III is the wealthy, middle-aged benefactor and eventual love interest of the orphaned heroine in the 1955 musical film "Daddy Long Legs."
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C.
Franklin Buchanan
Franklin Buchanan was a prominent 19th-century American naval officer who became the Confederacy’s most famous admiral, best known for commanding the ironclad CSS Virginia during the American Civil War.
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D.
Joshua Barney
Joshua Barney was an American naval officer and privateer who served with distinction in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
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E.
William H. Crawford
William H. Crawford was an influential early 19th-century American politician and statesman who served as U.S. senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, and a presidential candidate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film actress
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American television actress ⓘ human ⓘ |
| spouse |
Faye Emerson
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William Crawford ⓘ |
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 Crawford Description of subject: William Crawford was the husband of American film and television actress Faye Emerson.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.