Bernard Williams
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Bernard Williams was a British film producer known for his work on notable movies such as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and other major studio productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bernard Williams canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2892595 — 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: Bernard Williams Context triple: [Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, producer, Bernard Williams]
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A.
Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams was a prominent 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his critiques of utilitarianism and moral theory, his emphasis on the complexity of ethical life, and his influential work on integrity, moral luck, and the history of philosophy.
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W. D. Ross
W. D. Ross was a 20th-century Scottish philosopher best known for his influential work in moral philosophy, especially his theory of prima facie duties and contributions to deontological ethics.
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Roderick Chisholm
Roderick Chisholm was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the theory of perception.
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D.
Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher known for his influential work in moral and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, including the famous essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?".
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E.
John McDowell
John McDowell is a prominent contemporary philosopher known for his work in philosophy of mind, language, and ethics, particularly his influential book "Mind and World."
- 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: Bernard Williams Target entity description: Bernard Williams was a British film producer known for his work on notable movies such as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and other major studio productions.
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A.
Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams was a prominent 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his critiques of utilitarianism and moral theory, his emphasis on the complexity of ethical life, and his influential work on integrity, moral luck, and the history of philosophy.
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B.
W. D. Ross
W. D. Ross was a 20th-century Scottish philosopher best known for his influential work in moral philosophy, especially his theory of prima facie duties and contributions to deontological ethics.
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C.
Roderick Chisholm
Roderick Chisholm was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the theory of perception.
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D.
Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher known for his influential work in moral and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, including the famous essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?".
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E.
John McDowell
John McDowell is a prominent contemporary philosopher known for his work in philosophy of mind, language, and ethics, particularly his influential book "Mind and World."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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film ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| employer | major film studios ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film production ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| hasRole | producer ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
producing Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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producing major studio films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Bernard Williams ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ⓘ |
| occupation | film producer ⓘ |
| producer | Bernard Williams ⓘ |
| workedOn | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United Kingdom
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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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: Bernard Williams Description of subject: Bernard Williams was a British film producer known for his work on notable movies such as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and other major studio productions.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.