Woolsey
E491265
Woolsey is a surname most notably associated with Theodore Dwight Woolsey, a prominent 19th-century American academic and president of Yale College.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Woolsey canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5059496 — 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: Woolsey Context triple: [Theodore Dwight Woolsey, familyName, Woolsey]
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A.
Buckley
Buckley is a small city in Washington State known for its rural character and proximity to Mount Rainier.
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B.
Buckley
Buckley is a surname most prominently associated with William F. Buckley Jr., the influential American conservative author and founder of National Review.
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C.
Willard
Willard is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "resolute" or "strong-willed."
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D.
Shaughnessy
Shaughnessy is an affluent residential neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, known for its large heritage homes and tree-lined streets.
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E.
Nunes
Nunes is a common Portuguese surname borne by numerous individuals, including athletes, politicians, and public figures in Portuguese-speaking countries.
- 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: Woolsey Target entity description: Woolsey is a surname most notably associated with Theodore Dwight Woolsey, a prominent 19th-century American academic and president of Yale College.
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A.
Buckley
Buckley is a small city in Washington State known for its rural character and proximity to Mount Rainier.
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B.
Buckley
Buckley is a surname most prominently associated with William F. Buckley Jr., the influential American conservative author and founder of National Review.
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C.
Willard
Willard is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "resolute" or "strong-willed."
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D.
Shaughnessy
Shaughnessy is an affluent residential neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, known for its large heritage homes and tree-lined streets.
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E.
Nunes
Nunes is a common Portuguese surname borne by numerous individuals, including athletes, politicians, and public figures in Portuguese-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
jurist ⓘ surname ⓘ theologian ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Grove Street Cemetery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1801-10-31 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1889-07-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Princeton Theological Seminary
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Yale College ⓘ |
| employer |
Yale College
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Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Woolsey ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
classics
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international law ⓘ political science ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| givenName | Theodore ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Philosophical Society ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Theodore Dwight Woolsey ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Introduction to the Study of International Law
ⓘ
Political Science ⓘ |
| occupation |
college president
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professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of Yale College ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| usedAs | 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: Woolsey Description of subject: Woolsey is a surname most notably associated with Theodore Dwight Woolsey, a prominent 19th-century American academic and president of Yale College.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.