William Todd
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William Todd was the designer of the original Bear Flag that became the basis for the modern state flag of California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Todd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6790898 — 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 Todd Context triple: [Flag of California, designers, William Todd]
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A.
James Gardner March
James Gardner March was an influential American organizational theorist and political scientist known for his work on decision-making, organizational behavior, and the "garbage can" model of organizational choice.
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B.
Joe Grant
Joe Grant was an influential American Disney story artist and writer known for shaping the narratives and characters of many classic animated films.
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C.
William Nelson
William Nelson was a British nobleman best known as the elder brother and heir of Admiral Horatio Nelson, who was granted the title Duke of Bronté in Sicily.
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D.
Ben Willis
Ben Willis is the hook-wielding serial killer known as the Fisherman, the central slasher villain in the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" horror film series.
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E.
Lyndon Henry
Lyndon Henry is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the given name Lyndon.
- 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 Todd Target entity description: William Todd was the designer of the original Bear Flag that became the basis for the modern state flag of California.
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A.
James Gardner March
James Gardner March was an influential American organizational theorist and political scientist known for his work on decision-making, organizational behavior, and the "garbage can" model of organizational choice.
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B.
Joe Grant
Joe Grant was an influential American Disney story artist and writer known for shaping the narratives and characters of many classic animated films.
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C.
William Nelson
William Nelson was a British nobleman best known as the elder brother and heir of Admiral Horatio Nelson, who was granted the title Duke of Bronté in Sicily.
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D.
Ben Willis
Ben Willis is the hook-wielding serial killer known as the Fisherman, the central slasher villain in the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" horror film series.
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E.
Lyndon Henry
Lyndon Henry is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the given name Lyndon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag
ⓘ
flag designer ⓘ person ⓘ state flag ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
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| basedOn | original Bear Flag ⓘ |
| country | California Republic ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| designed |
original Bear Flag
ⓘ
linked to:
Bear Flag
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| designer | William Todd ⓘ |
| familyName | Todd ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| influenced | design of the modern state flag of California ⓘ |
| inspired | modern state flag of California ⓘ |
| notableFor | designing the original Bear Flag of California ⓘ |
| notableWork | original Bear Flag ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Todd Description of subject: William Todd was the designer of the original Bear Flag that became the basis for the modern state flag of California.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
William Todd