Matt Waters
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Matt Waters is a Libertarian political figure known for running as his party’s nominee in the 2018 U.S. Senate race in Virginia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matt Waters canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9920543 — 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: Matt Waters Context triple: [2018 United States Senate election in Virginia, candidate, Matt Waters]
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A.
Matt Mahurin
Matt Mahurin is an American illustrator, photographer, and acclaimed music video and film director known for his dark, surreal visual style in collaborations with major rock and alternative artists.
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B.
Mike Bennion
Mike Bennion is a musician best known for having been an early member of the British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree.
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C.
Wes Watkins
Wes Watkins is a musician best known as a member of the soul and rock band Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats.
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D.
Matt Walst
Matt Walst is a Canadian rock singer best known as the lead vocalist of the band Three Days Grace.
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E.
Matthew Aldrich
Matthew Aldrich is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing Pixar’s Academy Award–winning animated film "Coco."
- 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: Matt Waters Target entity description: Matt Waters is a Libertarian political figure known for running as his party’s nominee in the 2018 U.S. Senate race in Virginia.
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A.
Matt Mahurin
Matt Mahurin is an American illustrator, photographer, and acclaimed music video and film director known for his dark, surreal visual style in collaborations with major rock and alternative artists.
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B.
Mike Bennion
Mike Bennion is a musician best known for having been an early member of the British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree.
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C.
Wes Watkins
Wes Watkins is a musician best known as a member of the soul and rock band Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats.
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D.
Matt Walst
Matt Walst is a Canadian rock singer best known as the lead vocalist of the band Three Days Grace.
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E.
Matthew Aldrich
Matthew Aldrich is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing Pixar’s Academy Award–winning animated film "Coco."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Libertarian politician
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| activeIn | Virginia politics ⓘ |
| ballotStatus | party nominee ⓘ |
| candidateInElection | 2018 United States Senate election in Virginia ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedAs | Libertarian political figure ⓘ |
| electionOutcome | lost election ⓘ |
| electionYear | 2018 ⓘ |
| familyName | Waters ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Matt ⓘ |
| ideology | libertarianism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Matt Waters ⓘ |
| notableFor | 2018 United States Senate election in Virginia ⓘ |
| officeContested |
U.S. Senate
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Senate
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| partyNomineeForOffice | Libertarian Party nominee for U.S. Senate in Virginia in 2018 ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Libertarian Party (United States) ⓘ |
| positionSought | United States Senator from Virginia ⓘ |
| residence | Virginia (inferred) ⓘ |
| stateRepresentedInCandidacy | Virginia ⓘ |
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: Matt Waters Description of subject: Matt Waters is a Libertarian political figure known for running as his party’s nominee in the 2018 U.S. Senate race in Virginia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.