Donald Yearnsley Wilson
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Donald Yearnsley Wilson, better known as Trey Wilson, was an American character actor recognized for his memorable supporting roles in films such as "Raising Arizona" and "Bull Durham."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Donald Yearnsley Wilson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2887441 — 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: Donald Yearnsley Wilson Context triple: [Trey Wilson, birthName, Donald Yearnsley Wilson]
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A.
Paul Caldwell Wilson
Paul Caldwell Wilson was the husband of Frances Perkins, the first female U.S. Secretary of Labor and a key architect of New Deal social policies.
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B.
John Williams Wilson
John Williams Wilson was a 19th-century Chilean naval officer of British origin who played a key role in Chile’s southern maritime exploration and settlement.
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C.
Anthony Howard Wilson
Anthony Howard Wilson was a British record label owner, television presenter, and cultural impresario best known for co-founding Factory Records and helping shape Manchester’s music scene.
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D.
Frank Wilson
Frank Wilson was an American songwriter and record producer best known for his influential work with Motown Records in the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
- 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: Donald Yearnsley Wilson Target entity description: Donald Yearnsley Wilson, better known as Trey Wilson, was an American character actor recognized for his memorable supporting roles in films such as "Raising Arizona" and "Bull Durham."
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A.
Paul Caldwell Wilson
Paul Caldwell Wilson was the husband of Frances Perkins, the first female U.S. Secretary of Labor and a key architect of New Deal social policies.
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B.
John Williams Wilson
John Williams Wilson was a 19th-century Chilean naval officer of British origin who played a key role in Chile’s southern maritime exploration and settlement.
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C.
Anthony Howard Wilson
Anthony Howard Wilson was a British record label owner, television presenter, and cultural impresario best known for co-founding Factory Records and helping shape Manchester’s music scene.
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D.
Frank Wilson
Frank Wilson was an American songwriter and record producer best known for his influential work with Motown Records in the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Donald Yearnsley Wilson Description of subject: Donald Yearnsley Wilson, better known as Trey Wilson, was an American character actor recognized for his memorable supporting roles in films such as "Raising Arizona" and "Bull Durham."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.