William Ragsdale
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William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Ragsdale canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4642953 — 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 Ragsdale Context triple: [The Reaping, starring, William Ragsdale]
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A.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
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B.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
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C.
Charles Greenway
Charles Greenway was a British businessman and industrialist best known for his leading role in developing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a precursor to BP.
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D.
John W. Aldridge
John W. Aldridge was an American literary critic and professor known for his influential analyses of mid-20th-century American fiction and culture.
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E.
Paul Satterfield
Paul Satterfield is a film professional known for his work as a sequence director on classic animated features such as Disney’s 1942 film "Bambi."
- 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 Ragsdale Target entity description: William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
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A.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
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B.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
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C.
Charles Greenway
Charles Greenway was a British businessman and industrialist best known for his leading role in developing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a precursor to BP.
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D.
John W. Aldridge
John W. Aldridge was an American literary critic and professor known for his influential analyses of mid-20th-century American fiction and culture.
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E.
Paul Satterfield
Paul Satterfield is a film professional known for his work as a sequence director on classic animated features such as Disney’s 1942 film "Bambi."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | horror-comedy films ⓘ |
| knownFor |
lead role in Fright Night Part 2
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lead role in the 1985 film Fright Night ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fright Night
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linked to:
Fright Night (1985 film)
Fright Night Part 2 ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| portrayed | Charley Brewster ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
Fright Night
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linked to:
Fright Night (1985 film)
Fright Night Part 2 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 Ragsdale Description of subject: William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.