William Daniels
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William Daniels is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Graduate," the TV series "St. Elsewhere," and as the voice of KITT in "Knight Rider."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Daniels canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172901 — 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 Daniels Context triple: [The Graduate, starring, William Daniels]
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A.
James Whitmore
James Whitmore was an American character actor known for his distinctive gravelly voice and acclaimed performances in film, television, and theater, including a memorable role in *The Shawshank Redemption*.
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B.
Charles Durning
Charles Durning was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including acclaimed roles in works like "Dog Day Afternoon," "Tootsie," and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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C.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards is a character in the classic film and play "All About Eve," depicted as a talented and ambitious playwright closely involved in the theatrical world surrounding Margo Channing.
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D.
Judd Hirsch
Judd Hirsch is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role on the sitcom "Taxi" and his work in film, television, and theater over several decades.
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E.
Richard Jenkins
Richard Jenkins is an American character actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film and television, including an Oscar-nominated role in "The Visitor" and prominent appearances in works like "Six Feet Under" and "The Shape of Water."
- 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 Daniels Target entity description: William Daniels is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Graduate," the TV series "St. Elsewhere," and as the voice of KITT in "Knight Rider."
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A.
James Whitmore
James Whitmore was an American character actor known for his distinctive gravelly voice and acclaimed performances in film, television, and theater, including a memorable role in *The Shawshank Redemption*.
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B.
Charles Durning
Charles Durning was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including acclaimed roles in works like "Dog Day Afternoon," "Tootsie," and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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C.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards is a character in the classic film and play "All About Eve," depicted as a talented and ambitious playwright closely involved in the theatrical world surrounding Margo Channing.
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D.
Judd Hirsch
Judd Hirsch is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role on the sitcom "Taxi" and his work in film, television, and theater over several decades.
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E.
Richard Jenkins
Richard Jenkins is an American character actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film and television, including an Oscar-nominated role in "The Visitor" and prominent appearances in works like "Six Feet Under" and "The Shape of Water."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: William Daniels Description of subject: William Daniels is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Graduate," the TV series "St. Elsewhere," and as the voice of KITT in "Knight Rider."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
1776 (musical)