Sanderson
E1046748
Sanderson is a surname most famously associated with the witch sisters in the film "Hocus Pocus," including the character Winifred Sanderson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sanderson canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13541214 — 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: Sanderson Context triple: [Winifred Sanderson, familyName, Sanderson]
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A.
Sanderson
Sanderson is a wealthy, manipulative businessman in Hunter S. Thompson’s novel *The Rum Diary*, serving as one of the primary antagonists to the protagonist, Paul Kemp.
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B.
Lawmond
Lawmond is a Scottish family name recognized as a sept of Clan Lamont, a historic Highland clan from Argyll.
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C.
Godehart
Godehart is a German given name, serving as a variant form of the name Gotthard.
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D.
Dawsen
Dawsen is a given name and surname, typically considered a modern or variant spelling of Dawson.
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E.
Devorski
Devorski is a surname most notably associated with Paul Devorski, a former National Hockey League referee.
- 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: Sanderson Target entity description: Sanderson is a surname most famously associated with the witch sisters in the film "Hocus Pocus," including the character Winifred Sanderson.
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A.
Sanderson
Sanderson is a wealthy, manipulative businessman in Hunter S. Thompson’s novel *The Rum Diary*, serving as one of the primary antagonists to the protagonist, Paul Kemp.
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B.
Lawmond
Lawmond is a Scottish family name recognized as a sept of Clan Lamont, a historic Highland clan from Argyll.
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C.
Godehart
Godehart is a German given name, serving as a variant form of the name Gotthard.
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D.
Dawsen
Dawsen is a given name and surname, typically considered a modern or variant spelling of Dawson.
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E.
Devorski
Devorski is a surname most notably associated with Paul Devorski, a former National Hockey League referee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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fictional character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional group ⓘ film ⓘ film sequel ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Hocus Pocus
ⓘ
Hocus Pocus ⓘ Hocus Pocus ⓘ Hocus Pocus ⓘ Hocus Pocus 2 ⓘ Hocus Pocus 2 ⓘ Hocus Pocus 2 ⓘ Hocus Pocus 2 ⓘ |
| derivedFromGivenName |
Alexander
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Sander ⓘ |
| familyName |
Sanderson
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Sanderson ⓘ Sanderson ⓘ |
| featuresFictionalGroup |
Sanderson sisters
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Sanderson sisters ⓘ |
| genre | fantasy comedy ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Mary Sanderson
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Sarah Sanderson ⓘ Winifred Sanderson ⓘ |
| hasNotableFictionalBearer |
Mary Sanderson
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Sarah Sanderson ⓘ Winifred Sanderson ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Sandersen
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Sandersson ⓘ |
| memberOfFictionalGroup |
Sanderson sisters
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Sanderson sisters ⓘ Sanderson sisters ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Bette Midler
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Kathy Najimy ⓘ Sarah Jessica Parker ⓘ |
| sibling |
Mary Sanderson
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Mary Sanderson ⓘ Sarah Sanderson ⓘ Sarah Sanderson ⓘ Winifred Sanderson ⓘ Winifred Sanderson ⓘ |
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: Sanderson Description of subject: Sanderson is a surname most famously associated with the witch sisters in the film "Hocus Pocus," including the character Winifred Sanderson.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.