William Anderson
E336726
William Anderson is a film editor best known for his work on the acclaimed 1989 drama "Dead Poets Society."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Anderson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3197241 — 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 Anderson Context triple: [Dead Poets Society, editedBy, William Anderson]
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A.
Samuel Anderson
Samuel Anderson is a British actor best known for his work in television and theatre, including notable roles in series like "Doctor Who" and "Emmerdale."
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B.
Joseph Reid Anderson
Joseph Reid Anderson was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist and Confederate general who led one of the South’s most important iron manufacturing enterprises during the Civil War.
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C.
Gilmor Brown
Gilmor Brown was an American theater director and producer best known as the visionary founder and longtime guiding force of the Pasadena Playhouse.
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D.
Thomas Dunbar
Thomas Dunbar was a British Army officer who played a significant role in the Braddock Expedition during the French and Indian War.
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E.
John James
John James was an early 18th-century English architect known for designing several notable London churches in the Baroque and Palladian styles.
- 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 Anderson Target entity description: William Anderson is a film editor best known for his work on the acclaimed 1989 drama "Dead Poets Society."
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A.
Samuel Anderson
Samuel Anderson is a British actor best known for his work in television and theatre, including notable roles in series like "Doctor Who" and "Emmerdale."
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B.
Joseph Reid Anderson
Joseph Reid Anderson was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist and Confederate general who led one of the South’s most important iron manufacturing enterprises during the Civil War.
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C.
Gilmor Brown
Gilmor Brown was an American theater director and producer best known as the visionary founder and longtime guiding force of the Pasadena Playhouse.
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D.
Thomas Dunbar
Thomas Dunbar was a British Army officer who played a significant role in the Braddock Expedition during the French and Indian War.
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E.
John James
John James was an early 18th-century English architect known for designing several notable London churches in the Baroque and Palladian styles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Peter Weir ⓘ |
| edited | Dead Poets Society ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film editing ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | editing the 1989 drama film Dead Poets Society ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dead Poets Society ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1989 ⓘ |
| workedOn | feature film ⓘ |
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 Anderson Description of subject: William Anderson is a film editor best known for his work on the acclaimed 1989 drama "Dead Poets Society."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.