Dooley
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Dooley is the nickname of American actor and musician Dooley Wilson, best known for playing Sam and performing "As Time Goes By" in the classic film Casablanca.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dooley canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2326843 — 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: Dooley Context triple: [Dooley Wilson, nickname, Dooley]
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A.
James Dooley
James Dooley is a composer best known for creating dramatic, cinematic music often used in film, television, and trailer scores.
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B.
Dougie
Dougie is a familiar diminutive form of the given name Doug, often used as an affectionate nickname.
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C.
Charley
Charley is a supportive and pragmatic neighbor in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman," serving as a foil to Willy Loman's delusions and failures.
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D.
Dudly
Dudly is an alternative spelling or variant form of the given name Dudley.
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E.
Dug
Dug is the lovable, talking golden retriever from Pixar's animated film "Up," known for his collar that translates his thoughts into speech and his enthusiastic, friendly personality.
- 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: Dooley Target entity description: Dooley is the nickname of American actor and musician Dooley Wilson, best known for playing Sam and performing "As Time Goes By" in the classic film Casablanca.
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A.
James Dooley
James Dooley is a composer best known for creating dramatic, cinematic music often used in film, television, and trailer scores.
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B.
Dougie
Dougie is a familiar diminutive form of the given name Doug, often used as an affectionate nickname.
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C.
Charley
Charley is a supportive and pragmatic neighbor in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman," serving as a foil to Willy Loman's delusions and failures.
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D.
Dudly
Dudly is an alternative spelling or variant form of the given name Dudley.
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E.
Dug
Dug is the lovable, talking golden retriever from Pixar's animated film "Up," known for his collar that translates his thoughts into speech and his enthusiastic, friendly personality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| birthName | Arthur Wilson ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
music ⓘ |
| name | Dooley Wilson ⓘ |
| nickname | Dooley self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| notableFor | performing "As Time Goes By" in Casablanca ⓘ |
| notableRole | Sam in Casablanca ⓘ |
| notableWork | Casablanca ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Casablanca ⓘ |
| performed | As Time Goes By ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Dooley Description of subject: Dooley is the nickname of American actor and musician Dooley Wilson, best known for playing Sam and performing "As Time Goes By" in the classic film Casablanca.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.