William Nolan
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William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Nolan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T120137 — 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 Nolan Context triple: [The Mark of Zorro, editedBy, William Nolan]
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A.
Charles Begole
Charles Begole was an American mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney in the 19th century.
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B.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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C.
Pierce Anderson
Pierce Anderson was an American architect best known for his work with the firm Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, contributing to major Beaux-Arts and classical revival buildings in the early 20th century.
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D.
Andrew Heiskell
Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
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E.
Douglas Kirk
Douglas Kirk is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kirk.
- 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 Nolan Target entity description: William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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A.
Charles Begole
Charles Begole was an American mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney in the 19th century.
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B.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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C.
Pierce Anderson
Pierce Anderson was an American architect best known for his work with the firm Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, contributing to major Beaux-Arts and classical revival buildings in the early 20th century.
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D.
Andrew Heiskell
Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
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E.
Douglas Kirk
Douglas Kirk is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kirk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | editor ⓘ |
| associatedWith | classic adventure fiction ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
ⓘ
publishing ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | adventure literature ⓘ |
| knownFor |
editing "The Mark of Zorro"
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editing editions of classic adventure literature ⓘ |
| notableWork | edition of "The Mark of Zorro" ⓘ |
| occupation | editor ⓘ |
| roleInWork | editor of classic adventure texts ⓘ |
| workType |
literary editing
ⓘ
textual editing ⓘ |
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 Nolan Description of subject: William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.