Tommy Williams
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Tommy Williams is a young inmate in the film "The Shawshank Redemption" whose testimony becomes pivotal to the fate of fellow prisoner Andy Dufresne.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tommy Williams canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1714961 — 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: Tommy Williams Context triple: [The Shawshank Redemption, mainCharacter, Tommy Williams]
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A.
Tommy Ross
Tommy Ross is a popular high school student in Stephen King’s horror novel "Carrie," known for his pivotal role in inviting Carrie White to the prom.
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B.
Jim Tunney
Jim Tunney is a former NFL official renowned as one of the league’s most respected referees, often called the “Dean of NFL Referees.”
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C.
Donald Wilson
Donald Wilson was a British television producer and writer best known for helping develop and launch the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who for the BBC in the early 1960s.
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D.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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E.
Tommy McClelland
Tommy McClelland is a collegiate athletics administrator known for serving as the athletic director at Rice University and previously holding the same role at Louisiana Tech.
- 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: Tommy Williams Target entity description: Tommy Williams is a young inmate in the film "The Shawshank Redemption" whose testimony becomes pivotal to the fate of fellow prisoner Andy Dufresne.
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A.
Tommy Ross
Tommy Ross is a popular high school student in Stephen King’s horror novel "Carrie," known for his pivotal role in inviting Carrie White to the prom.
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B.
Jim Tunney
Jim Tunney is a former NFL official renowned as one of the league’s most respected referees, often called the “Dean of NFL Referees.”
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C.
Donald Wilson
Donald Wilson was a British television producer and writer best known for helping develop and launch the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who for the BBC in the early 1960s.
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D.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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E.
Tommy McClelland
Tommy McClelland is a collegiate athletics administrator known for serving as the athletic director at Rice University and previously holding the same role at Louisiana Tech.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Tommy Williams Description of subject: Tommy Williams is a young inmate in the film "The Shawshank Redemption" whose testimony becomes pivotal to the fate of fellow prisoner Andy Dufresne.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Shawshank Redemption