Dan White
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Dan White was a former San Francisco city supervisor best known for assassinating Mayor George Moscone and fellow supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dan White canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8253786 — 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: Dan White Context triple: [Harvey Milk, killedBy, Dan White]
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A.
Charles Starkweather
Charles Starkweather was a 1950s American spree killer whose notorious murder rampage with his teenage girlfriend inspired numerous films and fictional characters.
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B.
Mark Chapman
Mark Chapman is a British sports broadcaster best known for his work presenting football coverage on BBC television and radio.
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C.
James Carroll Beckwith
James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
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D.
John Holmes
John Holmes was an American poet and influential creative writing teacher known for mentoring notable poets, including Anne Sexton, at Tufts University.
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E.
John Holmes
John Holmes was a famous American adult film actor of the 1970s and early 1980s, widely known for his prolific career and distinctive physical attributes.
- 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: Dan White Target entity description: Dan White was a former San Francisco city supervisor best known for assassinating Mayor George Moscone and fellow supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978.
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A.
Charles Starkweather
Charles Starkweather was a 1950s American spree killer whose notorious murder rampage with his teenage girlfriend inspired numerous films and fictional characters.
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B.
Mark Chapman
Mark Chapman is a British sports broadcaster best known for his work presenting football coverage on BBC television and radio.
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C.
James Carroll Beckwith
James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
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D.
John Holmes
John Holmes was an American poet and influential creative writing teacher known for mentoring notable poets, including Anne Sexton, at Tufts University.
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E.
John Holmes
John Holmes was a famous American adult film actor of the 1970s and early 1980s, widely known for his prolific career and distinctive physical attributes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
assassin ⓘ human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning ⓘ |
| conflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| convictedOf | voluntary manslaughter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-09-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfConviction | 1979-05-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfCrime | 1978-11-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1985-10-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfParole | 1984-01-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Woodrow Wilson High School (Los Angeles)
ⓘ
linked to:
Woodrow Wilson High School
|
| endTime | 1978-11-27 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | White ⓘ |
| fullName | Daniel James White ⓘ |
| givenName | Daniel ⓘ |
| hasCause | diminished capacity defense in his trial ⓘ |
| hasChild | one son ⓘ |
| influenced | White Night riots in San Francisco ⓘ |
| knownFor |
assassinating San Francisco Mayor George Moscone
ⓘ
assassinating San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk ⓘ so-called "Twinkie defense" associated with his trial ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| notableWork | assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk ⓘ |
| occupation |
firefighter
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Moscone–Milk assassinations
ⓘ
linked to:
assassination of George Moscone
assassination of George Moscone ⓘ assassination of Harvey Milk ⓘ
linked to:
assassination of George Moscone
|
| placeOfBirth |
Long Beach, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Long Beach
|
| placeOfCrime | San Francisco City Hall ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
San Francisco, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco, California
|
| placeOfDetention | Soledad State Prison ⓘ |
| positionHeld | member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
San Francisco, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco, California
|
| resignedFromPosition | member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors ⓘ |
| sentence | seven years and eight months in prison ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Ann White ⓘ |
| startTime | 1978-01-08 ⓘ |
| victim |
George Moscone
ⓘ
Harvey Milk ⓘ |
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: Dan White Description of subject: Dan White was a former San Francisco city supervisor best known for assassinating Mayor George Moscone and fellow supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.