Walter Bailey
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Walter Bailey was the proprietor of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, best known as the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and now part of the National Civil Rights Museum.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Bailey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4124996 — 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: Walter Bailey Context triple: [Lorraine Motel, owner, Walter Bailey]
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A.
Walter Hendricks
Walter Hendricks was an American educator best known as the founder and first president of Marlboro College in Vermont.
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B.
Walter Nelson
Walter Nelson was an attorney who served on the defense team in the landmark Ossian Sweet murder trial, which challenged racial injustice in 1920s Detroit.
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C.
Eugene Worley
Eugene Worley was an American jurist who served as a prominent judge on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
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D.
Clarence Worley
Clarence Worley is the comic book–loving, Elvis-obsessed protagonist of the crime film "True Romance," who impulsively marries a call girl and becomes entangled in a violent, cross-country escapade.
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E.
Winston Hibler
Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
- 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: Walter Bailey Target entity description: Walter Bailey was the proprietor of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, best known as the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and now part of the National Civil Rights Museum.
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A.
Walter Hendricks
Walter Hendricks was an American educator best known as the founder and first president of Marlboro College in Vermont.
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B.
Walter Nelson
Walter Nelson was an attorney who served on the defense team in the landmark Ossian Sweet murder trial, which challenged racial injustice in 1920s Detroit.
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C.
Eugene Worley
Eugene Worley was an American jurist who served as a prominent judge on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
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D.
Clarence Worley
Clarence Worley is the comic book–loving, Elvis-obsessed protagonist of the crime film "True Romance," who impulsively marries a call girl and becomes entangled in a violent, cross-country escapade.
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E.
Winston Hibler
Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
motel
ⓘ
museum ⓘ person ⓘ |
| buildingOwned | Lorraine Motel ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dateOfEvent | 1968-04-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfEventAssociated | 1968-04-04 ⓘ |
| includes | Lorraine Motel ⓘ |
| knownFor | ownership of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee ⓘ |
| location |
Memphis, Tennessee
ⓘ
linked to:
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
|
| notableEvent | assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| notableEventAssociatedWith | assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| occupation | hotel proprietor ⓘ |
| partOf | National Civil Rights Museum ⓘ |
| placeOfBusiness | Lorraine Motel ⓘ |
| residence |
Memphis, Tennessee
ⓘ
linked to:
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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| role | proprietor of the Lorraine Motel ⓘ |
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: Walter Bailey Description of subject: Walter Bailey was the proprietor of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, best known as the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and now part of the National Civil Rights Museum.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.