William Van Dort
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William Van Dort is a wealthy, socially ambitious fish-merchant father character in Tim Burton’s animated film "Corpse Bride."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Van Dort canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13099316 — 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 Van Dort Context triple: [Victor Van Dort, father, William Van Dort]
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A.
Jacobus Vanderveer
Jacobus Vanderveer was a member of the prominent Vanderveer family in colonial New Jersey, historically associated with the estate that later became known as the Jacobus Vanderveer House.
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B.
Willem Schermerhorn
Willem Schermerhorn was a Dutch politician and academic who served as the first post-World War II Prime Minister of the Netherlands, leading the country’s initial reconstruction government.
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C.
Adolphus Philipse
Adolphus Philipse was an 18th-century New York landowner and merchant, best known for inheriting and managing a large portion of the extensive Philipse family estates in the Hudson Valley.
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D.
Gulian Crommelin Verplanck
Gulian Crommelin Verplanck was a 19th-century American politician, lawyer, and writer from New York, known for his literary criticism and involvement in the city’s cultural and intellectual life.
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E.
William de Witt
William de Witt is an individual whose name appears in historical and genealogical records, though no widely known public figure by this exact name is prominent in major reference sources.
- 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 Van Dort Target entity description: William Van Dort is a wealthy, socially ambitious fish-merchant father character in Tim Burton’s animated film "Corpse Bride."
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A.
Jacobus Vanderveer
Jacobus Vanderveer was a member of the prominent Vanderveer family in colonial New Jersey, historically associated with the estate that later became known as the Jacobus Vanderveer House.
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B.
Willem Schermerhorn
Willem Schermerhorn was a Dutch politician and academic who served as the first post-World War II Prime Minister of the Netherlands, leading the country’s initial reconstruction government.
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C.
Adolphus Philipse
Adolphus Philipse was an 18th-century New York landowner and merchant, best known for inheriting and managing a large portion of the extensive Philipse family estates in the Hudson Valley.
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D.
Gulian Crommelin Verplanck
Gulian Crommelin Verplanck was a 19th-century American politician, lawyer, and writer from New York, known for his literary criticism and involvement in the city’s cultural and intellectual life.
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E.
William de Witt
William de Witt is an individual whose name appears in historical and genealogical records, though no widely known public figure by this exact name is prominent in major reference sources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated film character
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Corpse Bride
NERFINISHED
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Corpse Bride (2005 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Everglot family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Victorian-era English merchant archetype ⓘ |
| child | Victor Van Dort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Tim Burton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Van Dort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Corpse Bride universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fantasy
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romantic fantasy ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| goal | to gain social status through his son’s marriage ⓘ |
| hasWealthStatus | wealthy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| marriageArrangedFor | Victor Van Dort and Victoria Everglot ⓘ |
| medium | stop-motion animated film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
comic relief
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supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | fish merchant ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
anxious
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socially ambitious ⓘ status-conscious ⓘ |
| relative |
Nell Van Dort
NERFINISHED
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Victor Van Dort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | nouveau riche ⓘ |
| spouse | Nell Van Dort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Van Dort Description of subject: William Van Dort is a wealthy, socially ambitious fish-merchant father character in Tim Burton’s animated film "Corpse Bride."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.