William Guy
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William Guy is known as the father of American actress, director, and singer Jasmine Guy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Guy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10525725 — 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 Guy Context triple: [Jasmine Guy, parent, William Guy]
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A.
William Guy
William Guy was a prominent 19th-century British statistician and physician regarded as a pioneer in medical statistics and public health.
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B.
William Pleeth
William Pleeth was a renowned British cellist and influential teacher best known for mentoring the celebrated cellist Jacqueline du Pré.
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C.
James Francis Goble
James Francis Goble was the husband of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and a chemistry teacher who died relatively young from a brain tumor.
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D.
William Reeves
William Reeves is a pioneering computer graphics and animation expert at Pixar, known for his influential work on early CGI films and development of key rendering techniques.
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E.
James Guillaume
James Guillaume was a prominent Swiss anarchist, educator, and close associate of Mikhail Bakunin who played a leading role in the anti-authoritarian wing of the First International.
- 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 Guy Target entity description: William Guy is known as the father of American actress, director, and singer Jasmine Guy.
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A.
William Guy
William Guy was a prominent 19th-century British statistician and physician regarded as a pioneer in medical statistics and public health.
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B.
William Pleeth
William Pleeth was a renowned British cellist and influential teacher best known for mentoring the celebrated cellist Jacqueline du Pré.
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C.
James Francis Goble
James Francis Goble was the husband of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and a chemistry teacher who died relatively young from a brain tumor.
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D.
William Reeves
William Reeves is a pioneering computer graphics and animation expert at Pixar, known for his influential work on early CGI films and development of key rendering techniques.
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E.
James Guillaume
James Guillaume was a prominent Swiss anarchist, educator, and close associate of Mikhail Bakunin who played a leading role in the anti-authoritarian wing of the First International.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasChild | Jasmine Guy ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Jasmine Guy ⓘ |
| 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 Guy Description of subject: William Guy is known as the father of American actress, director, and singer Jasmine Guy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.