William Tepper
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William Tepper was an American actor and screenwriter best known for his lead role in Jack Nicholson’s 1971 directorial debut film "Drive, He Said."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Tepper canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3757636 — 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 Tepper Context triple: [Drive, He Said, starring, William Tepper]
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A.
Arthur Sheekman
Arthur Sheekman was an American screenwriter and humorist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and other Hollywood comedies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Murray Weidenbaum
Murray Weidenbaum was an American economist and policy advisor best known for serving as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan and for his influential work on government regulation and economic policy.
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C.
Samuel G. Fleisher
Samuel G. Fleisher was a Philadelphia philanthropist and arts patron known for supporting accessible art education and helping establish key contemporary art institutions in the city.
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D.
Solomon Loeb
Solomon Loeb was a prominent 19th-century German-American banker and co-founder of the influential investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
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E.
Morris Meyerson
Morris Meyerson was the husband of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and a figure associated with the early Zionist movement and pre-state Israel.
- 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 Tepper Target entity description: William Tepper was an American actor and screenwriter best known for his lead role in Jack Nicholson’s 1971 directorial debut film "Drive, He Said."
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A.
Arthur Sheekman
Arthur Sheekman was an American screenwriter and humorist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and other Hollywood comedies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Murray Weidenbaum
Murray Weidenbaum was an American economist and policy advisor best known for serving as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan and for his influential work on government regulation and economic policy.
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C.
Samuel G. Fleisher
Samuel G. Fleisher was a Philadelphia philanthropist and arts patron known for supporting accessible art education and helping establish key contemporary art institutions in the city.
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D.
Solomon Loeb
Solomon Loeb was a prominent 19th-century German-American banker and co-founder of the influential investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
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E.
Morris Meyerson
Morris Meyerson was the husband of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and a figure associated with the early Zionist movement and pre-state Israel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| castMember | William Tepper self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| castMemberOf | Drive, He Said ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Jack Nicholson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| director | Jack Nicholson ⓘ |
| directorDebutOf | Jack Nicholson ⓘ |
| directorOf | Drive, He Said ⓘ |
| genre | film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Drive, He Said ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | lead role in Drive, He Said ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1971 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedOn | Drive, He Said ⓘ |
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 Tepper Description of subject: William Tepper was an American actor and screenwriter best known for his lead role in Jack Nicholson’s 1971 directorial debut film "Drive, He Said."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Drive, He Said