William Woollatt
E518717
William Woollatt was a member of the Derby Philosophical Society, an 18th–19th century scientific and intellectual society based in Derby, England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Woollatt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5424724 — 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 Woollatt Context triple: [Derby Philosophical Society, hasMember, William Woollatt]
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A.
Samuel Waldo
Samuel Waldo was an 18th-century American land speculator and military officer whose influence in colonial Maine led to a county being named in his honor.
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B.
Edward Mills
Edward Mills was a British architect known for designing the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters in London.
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C.
Samuel Ellis
Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
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D.
Arthur Winslow
Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
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E.
Samuel Weaver
Samuel Weaver was the teenage son of Randy Weaver who was fatally shot by U.S. marshals during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho.
- 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 Woollatt Target entity description: William Woollatt was a member of the Derby Philosophical Society, an 18th–19th century scientific and intellectual society based in Derby, England.
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A.
Samuel Waldo
Samuel Waldo was an 18th-century American land speculator and military officer whose influence in colonial Maine led to a county being named in his honor.
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B.
Edward Mills
Edward Mills was a British architect known for designing the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters in London.
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C.
Samuel Ellis
Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
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D.
Arthur Winslow
Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
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E.
Samuel Weaver
Samuel Weaver was the teenage son of Randy Weaver who was fatally shot by U.S. marshals during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
learned society
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person ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
intellectual history
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natural philosophy ⓘ science ⓘ |
| inception | 18th century ⓘ |
| locatedInTime |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ |
| location |
Derby
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Derby, England ⓘ
linked to:
Derby
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| memberOf | Derby Philosophical Society ⓘ |
| occupation | scientist ⓘ |
| participantIn | Derby Philosophical Society activities ⓘ |
| residence |
Derby
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Derby, England ⓘ
linked to:
Derby
|
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 Woollatt Description of subject: William Woollatt was a member of the Derby Philosophical Society, an 18th–19th century scientific and intellectual society based in Derby, England.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.