William Fitch Arnold
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William Fitch Arnold was a descendant of the American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold and his wife Peggy Shippen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Fitch Arnold canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2478316 — 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 Fitch Arnold Context triple: [Peggy Shippen, child, William Fitch Arnold]
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A.
William Delafield Arnold
William Delafield Arnold was a 19th-century British author and colonial administrator in India, known for his novel "Oakfield; or, Fellowship in the East" and for serving as Director of Public Instruction in the Punjab.
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B.
Thomas U. Walter
Thomas U. Walter was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing the cast-iron dome of the United States Capitol and shaping key federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
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C.
George D. Barnett
George D. Barnett was an American architect known for designing prominent ecclesiastical and civic buildings in the early 20th century, particularly in St. Louis, Missouri.
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D.
Charles H. Hackley
Charles H. Hackley was a prominent 19th-century Muskegon lumber baron and philanthropist known for his extensive civic and cultural contributions to the city.
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E.
Charles D. Norton
Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
- 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 Fitch Arnold Target entity description: William Fitch Arnold was a descendant of the American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold and his wife Peggy Shippen.
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A.
William Delafield Arnold
William Delafield Arnold was a 19th-century British author and colonial administrator in India, known for his novel "Oakfield; or, Fellowship in the East" and for serving as Director of Public Instruction in the Punjab.
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B.
Thomas U. Walter
Thomas U. Walter was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing the cast-iron dome of the United States Capitol and shaping key federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
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C.
George D. Barnett
George D. Barnett was an American architect known for designing prominent ecclesiastical and civic buildings in the early 20th century, particularly in St. Louis, Missouri.
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D.
Charles H. Hackley
Charles H. Hackley was a prominent 19th-century Muskegon lumber baron and philanthropist known for his extensive civic and cultural contributions to the city.
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E.
Charles D. Norton
Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Benedict Arnold
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Peggy Shippen ⓘ |
| notableFor |
American Revolutionary War figure
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wife of Benedict Arnold ⓘ |
| spouse | Peggy Shippen ⓘ |
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 Fitch Arnold Description of subject: William Fitch Arnold was a descendant of the American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold and his wife Peggy Shippen.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.