William H. Macy
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William H. Macy is an American actor and director known for his character roles in films like "Fargo" and the TV series "Shameless."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William H. Macy canonical | 72 |
| William H. Macy Sr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3341139 — 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 H. Macy Context triple: [Felicity Huffman, spouse, William H. Macy]
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A.
Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi is an American actor and filmmaker known for his distinctive looks and acclaimed performances in independent films and major productions such as "Fargo," "Reservoir Dogs," and "Boardwalk Empire."
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B.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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C.
Tim Healy
Tim Healy was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer, and writer who became the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.
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D.
Joel Murray
Joel Murray is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, as well as for his voice work in animated projects.
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E.
Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti is an American actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film and television, including roles in "Sideways," "Cinderella Man," and the series "Billions."
- 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 H. Macy Target entity description: William H. Macy is an American actor and director known for his character roles in films like "Fargo" and the TV series "Shameless."
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A.
Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi is an American actor and filmmaker known for his distinctive looks and acclaimed performances in independent films and major productions such as "Fargo," "Reservoir Dogs," and "Boardwalk Empire."
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B.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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C.
Tim Healy
Tim Healy was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer, and writer who became the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.
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D.
Joel Murray
Joel Murray is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, as well as for his voice work in animated projects.
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E.
Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti is an American actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film and television, including roles in "Sideways," "Cinderella Man," and the series "Billions."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 H. Macy Description of subject: William H. Macy is an American actor and director known for his character roles in films like "Fargo" and the TV series "Shameless."
Referenced by (73)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
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William H. Macy
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subject linked to:
Hayao Miyazaki’s film "The Wind Rises"
linked to: William H. Macy
subject linked to:
Leaves of Grass