William W. Smith
E456866
William W. Smith was the husband of American actress Frances Farmer, known primarily for his marriage to the troubled Hollywood star.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William W. Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3696770 — 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 W. Smith Context triple: [Frances Farmer, spouse, William W. Smith]
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A.
William S. Smith
William S. Smith was an American military officer and public figure who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and later held various diplomatic and political roles in the early United States.
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B.
Charles H. Smith
Charles H. Smith was an engineer best known for his role in designing and developing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
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C.
Julian C. Smith
Julian C. Smith was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general best known for leading the 2nd Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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D.
Bruce Bernard Smith
Bruce Bernard Smith is a Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end best known for his dominant pass-rushing career with the Buffalo Bills in the NFL.
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E.
Frederick Wallace Smith
Frederick Wallace Smith is an American businessman best known as the founder, chairman, and former CEO of FedEx Corporation.
- 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 W. Smith Target entity description: William W. Smith was the husband of American actress Frances Farmer, known primarily for his marriage to the troubled Hollywood star.
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A.
William S. Smith
William S. Smith was an American military officer and public figure who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and later held various diplomatic and political roles in the early United States.
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B.
Charles H. Smith
Charles H. Smith was an engineer best known for his role in designing and developing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
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C.
Julian C. Smith
Julian C. Smith was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general best known for leading the 2nd Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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D.
Bruce Bernard Smith
Bruce Bernard Smith is a Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end best known for his dominant pass-rushing career with the Buffalo Bills in the NFL.
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E.
Frederick Wallace Smith
Frederick Wallace Smith is an American businessman best known as the founder, chairman, and former CEO of FedEx Corporation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| hasName | William W. Smith ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Frances Farmer ⓘ |
| occupation | unknown ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Frances Farmer ⓘ |
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 W. Smith Description of subject: William W. Smith was the husband of American actress Frances Farmer, known primarily for his marriage to the troubled Hollywood star.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.