William Killick
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William Killick is a brooding, war-scarred soldier whose turbulent marriage to Vera Phillips forms a central emotional thread in the film "The Edge of Love."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Killick canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14752137 — 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 Killick Context triple: [The Edge of Love, character, William Killick]
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A.
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Gussie Fink-Nottle is a shy, newt-obsessed friend of Bertie Wooster in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known for his timidity and comic misadventures.
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B.
Winnie Verloc
Winnie Verloc is a central character in Joseph Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent," known as the emotionally conflicted wife of a London shopkeeper involved in anarchist terrorism.
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C.
Harry Wormwood
Harry Wormwood is the dishonest, neglectful car salesman father of the gifted protagonist in Roald Dahl’s children’s novel "Matilda."
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D.
Beedle
Beedle is the original surname of American actor William Holden, a major Hollywood star of the mid-20th century known for films like "Sunset Boulevard" and "Stalag 17."
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E.
Killick
Killick is the irascible yet fiercely loyal steward and servant to Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin naval novels.
- 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 Killick Target entity description: William Killick is a brooding, war-scarred soldier whose turbulent marriage to Vera Phillips forms a central emotional thread in the film "The Edge of Love."
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A.
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Gussie Fink-Nottle is a shy, newt-obsessed friend of Bertie Wooster in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known for his timidity and comic misadventures.
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B.
Winnie Verloc
Winnie Verloc is a central character in Joseph Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent," known as the emotionally conflicted wife of a London shopkeeper involved in anarchist terrorism.
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C.
Harry Wormwood
Harry Wormwood is the dishonest, neglectful car salesman father of the gifted protagonist in Roald Dahl’s children’s novel "Matilda."
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D.
Beedle
Beedle is the original surname of American actor William Holden, a major Hollywood star of the mid-20th century known for films like "Sunset Boulevard" and "Stalag 17."
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E.
Killick
Killick is the irascible yet fiercely loyal steward and servant to Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin naval novels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.