William B. Webb
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William B. Webb was a notable individual interred at Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C., recognized for his prominence in the city's 19th-century civic and professional life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William B. Webb canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5676868 — 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 B. Webb Context triple: [Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C., hasNotableBurials, William B. Webb]
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A.
Lewis M. Rutherfurd
Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
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B.
Thomas J. Brown
Thomas J. Brown is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine.
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C.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
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D.
George Travis
George Travis is a veteran concert and theater producer best known for his long-time collaboration with Bruce Springsteen, including work on the acclaimed stage production "Springsteen on Broadway."
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E.
Stephen T. Early
Stephen T. Early was a prominent American government official and longtime press secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt who later became the first U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense.
- 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 B. Webb Target entity description: William B. Webb was a notable individual interred at Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C., recognized for his prominence in the city's 19th-century civic and professional life.
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A.
Lewis M. Rutherfurd
Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
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B.
Thomas J. Brown
Thomas J. Brown is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine.
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C.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
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D.
George Travis
George Travis is a veteran concert and theater producer best known for his long-time collaboration with Bruce Springsteen, including work on the acclaimed stage production "Springsteen on Broadway."
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E.
Stephen T. Early
Stephen T. Early was a prominent American government official and longtime press secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt who later became the first U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
civic leader
ⓘ
professional in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | District of Columbia ⓘ |
| name | William B. Webb ⓘ |
| notableFor |
19th-century civic life in Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
professional life in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial |
Glenwood Cemetery
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Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| residence | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 B. Webb Description of subject: William B. Webb was a notable individual interred at Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C., recognized for his prominence in the city's 19th-century civic and professional life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.