Maj. William Earl Brown
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Maj. William Earl Brown was a U.S. military aviator commemorated for his service and sacrifice, for whom Brown Field Municipal Airport in San Diego is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maj. William Earl Brown canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10795315 — 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: Maj. William Earl Brown Context triple: [Brown Field Municipal Airport, namedAfter, Maj. William Earl Brown]
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A.
Lt. Eugene M. Bradley
Lt. Eugene M. Bradley was a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot whose fatal training accident in 1941 led to the naming of Bradley International Airport in his honor.
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B.
Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood
Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood was a U.S. Army officer best known for his pivotal role in persuading the Apache leader Geronimo to surrender, effectively ending the last major Native American armed resistance to the U.S. government.
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C.
Lieutenant William F. Kinderman
Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is a seasoned, introspective police detective who investigates a series of gruesome, seemingly supernatural murders in the horror film *The Exorcist III*.
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D.
Maj. Sam Moulton
Maj. Sam Moulton is a fictional military officer who appears as a character in the work titled "The Rack."
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E.
Lt. Harold Woodruff
Lt. Harold Woodruff is a fictional military officer featured as a character in the war-themed board game "Attack!".
- 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: Maj. William Earl Brown Target entity description: Maj. William Earl Brown was a U.S. military aviator commemorated for his service and sacrifice, for whom Brown Field Municipal Airport in San Diego is named.
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A.
Lt. Eugene M. Bradley
Lt. Eugene M. Bradley was a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot whose fatal training accident in 1941 led to the naming of Bradley International Airport in his honor.
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B.
Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood
Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood was a U.S. Army officer best known for his pivotal role in persuading the Apache leader Geronimo to surrender, effectively ending the last major Native American armed resistance to the U.S. government.
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C.
Lieutenant William F. Kinderman
Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is a seasoned, introspective police detective who investigates a series of gruesome, seemingly supernatural murders in the horror film *The Exorcist III*.
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D.
Maj. Sam Moulton
Maj. Sam Moulton is a fictional military officer who appears as a character in the work titled "The Rack."
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E.
Lt. Harold Woodruff
Lt. Harold Woodruff is a fictional military officer featured as a character in the war-themed board game "Attack!".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States military personnel
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airport ⓘ human ⓘ military aviator ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | Brown Field Municipal Airport ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Brown ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasNamesake | Brown Field Municipal Airport ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Major ⓘ |
| location |
San Diego, California
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linked to:
San Diego, California, United States
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| militaryBranch | United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Major ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Maj. William Earl Brown ⓘ |
| notableFor |
sacrifice in military service
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service as a U.S. military aviator ⓘ |
| occupation |
aviator
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military officer ⓘ |
| placeOfCommemoration |
San Diego, California
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linked to:
San Diego, California, United States
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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: Maj. William Earl Brown Description of subject: Maj. William Earl Brown was a U.S. military aviator commemorated for his service and sacrifice, for whom Brown Field Municipal Airport in San Diego is named.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.