Bill Pohlad
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Bill Pohlad is an American film producer and director known for backing acclaimed independent films such as "12 Years a Slave" and directing the Brian Wilson biopic "Love & Mercy."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill Pohlad canonical | 9 |
| William Pohlad | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1963833 — 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: Bill Pohlad Context triple: [12 Years a Slave, producer, Bill Pohlad]
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A.
Christopher Ilitch
Christopher Ilitch is an American businessman and sports executive who leads Ilitch Holdings and oversees the family’s Detroit-based sports and entertainment enterprises.
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B.
Ewing Kauffman
Ewing Kauffman was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder and longtime owner of the Kansas City Royals Major League Baseball team.
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C.
George McCaskey
George McCaskey is an American sports executive and member of the Halas-McCaskey family who leads the NFL’s Chicago Bears franchise.
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D.
John W. Henry
John W. Henry is an American businessman and investor best known as the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool FC through his leadership of Fenway Sports Group.
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E.
Jerry Reinsdorf
Jerry Reinsdorf is an American businessman and longtime sports team owner best known for his leadership of both the Chicago White Sox in Major League Baseball and the Chicago Bulls in the NBA.
- 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: Bill Pohlad Target entity description: Bill Pohlad is an American film producer and director known for backing acclaimed independent films such as "12 Years a Slave" and directing the Brian Wilson biopic "Love & Mercy."
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A.
Christopher Ilitch
Christopher Ilitch is an American businessman and sports executive who leads Ilitch Holdings and oversees the family’s Detroit-based sports and entertainment enterprises.
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B.
Ewing Kauffman
Ewing Kauffman was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder and longtime owner of the Kansas City Royals Major League Baseball team.
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C.
George McCaskey
George McCaskey is an American sports executive and member of the Halas-McCaskey family who leads the NFL’s Chicago Bears franchise.
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D.
John W. Henry
John W. Henry is an American businessman and investor best known as the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool FC through his leadership of Fenway Sports Group.
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E.
Jerry Reinsdorf
Jerry Reinsdorf is an American businessman and longtime sports team owner best known for his leadership of both the Chicago White Sox in Major League Baseball and the Chicago Bulls in the NBA.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed | Love & Mercy ⓘ |
| employer | River Road Entertainment ⓘ |
| familyName | Pohlad ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | independent film ⓘ |
| genre | biographical film ⓘ |
| givenName | Bill ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
backing acclaimed independent films
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directing the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy ⓘ producing award-winning dramas ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Bill Pohlad self-link ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Academy Award for Best Picture nomination for 12 Years a Slave (as producer)
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Academy Award for Best Picture nomination for Brokeback Mountain (as producer) ⓘ Academy Award for Best Picture nomination for The Tree of Life (as producer) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
12 Years a Slave
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood ⓘ Brokeback Mountain ⓘ Into the Wild ⓘ Love & Mercy ⓘ The Tree of Life ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| parent | Carl Pohlad ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
founder of River Road Entertainment
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president of River Road Entertainment ⓘ |
| produced |
12 Years a Slave
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood ⓘ American Made ⓘ Brokeback Mountain ⓘ Fair Game ⓘ Food, Inc. ⓘ Into the Wild ⓘ The New World ⓘ The Runaways ⓘ The Tree of Life ⓘ Wild ⓘ |
| sibling |
Bob Pohlad
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Jim Pohlad ⓘ |
| subjectOf | interviews about the making of Love & Mercy ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Bill Pohlad Description of subject: Bill Pohlad is an American film producer and director known for backing acclaimed independent films such as "12 Years a Slave" and directing the Brian Wilson biopic "Love & Mercy."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William Pohlad
this entity surface form:
William Pohlad
subject surface form:
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