William Katt
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William Katt is an American actor best known for starring in the 1980s television series "The Greatest American Hero" and appearing in films such as "Carrie."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Katt canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4663520 — 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 Katt Context triple: [Avengers Grimm, hasCastMember, William Katt]
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A.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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B.
Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and as the gruff but loving father in the classic film "A Christmas Story."
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C.
Paul Fix
Paul Fix was an American character actor best known for his numerous Western film and television roles, including his recurring part as Marshal Micah Torrance on the TV series "The Rifleman."
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D.
Ray Wise
Ray Wise is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in film and television, including memorable performances in "Twin Peaks," "RoboCop," and numerous other genre and dramatic works.
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E.
Ronny Cox
Ronny Cox is an American actor and musician best known for his roles in films such as "Deliverance," "RoboCop," and "Total Recall," often portraying authoritative or villainous characters.
- 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 Katt Target entity description: William Katt is an American actor best known for starring in the 1980s television series "The Greatest American Hero" and appearing in films such as "Carrie."
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A.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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B.
Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and as the gruff but loving father in the classic film "A Christmas Story."
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C.
Paul Fix
Paul Fix was an American character actor best known for his numerous Western film and television roles, including his recurring part as Marshal Micah Torrance on the TV series "The Rifleman."
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D.
Ray Wise
Ray Wise is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in film and television, including memorable performances in "Twin Peaks," "RoboCop," and numerous other genre and dramatic works.
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E.
Ronny Cox
Ronny Cox is an American actor and musician best known for his roles in films such as "Deliverance," "RoboCop," and "Total Recall," often portraying authoritative or villainous characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
NERFINISHED
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Big Wednesday NERFINISHED ⓘ Carrie NERFINISHED ⓘ House ⓘ Perry Mason TV movies NERFINISHED ⓘ Pippin NERFINISHED ⓘ The Greatest American Hero NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man from Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| birthName | William Theodore Katt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-02-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Orange Coast College
NERFINISHED
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UCLA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
film
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television ⓘ |
| hasHairColor | blond ⓘ |
| hasIMDBId | nm0441487 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
appearing in the film "Carrie" (1976)
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starring in the television series "The Greatest American Hero" ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | William Katt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Barbara Hale
NERFINISHED
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Bill Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Big Wednesday
NERFINISHED
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Carrie NERFINISHED ⓘ House ⓘ Pippin NERFINISHED ⓘ The Greatest American Hero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
musician ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| parent |
Barbara Hale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bill Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCharacter |
Ralph Hanley
NERFINISHED
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Ralph Hinkley NERFINISHED ⓘ Rick NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Cobb NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse |
Danielle Hirsch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Deborah Kahane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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 Katt Description of subject: William Katt is an American actor best known for starring in the 1980s television series "The Greatest American Hero" and appearing in films such as "Carrie."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.