William Self
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William Self was an American film and television producer and studio executive known for overseeing numerous projects at 20th Century Fox and producing notable films and TV series in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Self canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20881731 — 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 Self Context triple: [The Shootist, producer, William Self]
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A.
Don Self
Don Self is a duplicitous Homeland Security agent in the TV series "Prison Break," known for recruiting Michael Scofield’s team before ultimately betraying them in season 4.
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B.
John Self
John Self is the hard-drinking, self-destructive advertising man who narrates Martin Amis’s darkly comic novel "Money: A Suicide Note."
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C.
David Self
David Self is an American screenwriter known for his work on films such as "Road to Perdition" and other major Hollywood projects.
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D.
Michael Alsbury
Michael Alsbury was an American test pilot for Scaled Composites who was killed during a 2014 test flight of the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane.
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E.
Robert Keene
Robert Keene was the husband of American Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan.
- 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 Self Target entity description: William Self was an American film and television producer and studio executive known for overseeing numerous projects at 20th Century Fox and producing notable films and TV series in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Don Self
Don Self is a duplicitous Homeland Security agent in the TV series "Prison Break," known for recruiting Michael Scofield’s team before ultimately betraying them in season 4.
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B.
John Self
John Self is the hard-drinking, self-destructive advertising man who narrates Martin Amis’s darkly comic novel "Money: A Suicide Note."
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C.
David Self
David Self is an American screenwriter known for his work on films such as "Road to Perdition" and other major Hollywood projects.
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D.
Michael Alsbury
Michael Alsbury was an American test pilot for Scaled Composites who was killed during a 2014 test flight of the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane.
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E.
Robert Keene
Robert Keene was the husband of American Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.