Heywood
E725552
Heywood is a fellow inmate and member of the prison circle of friends in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heywood canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8315107 — 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: Heywood Context triple: [Andy Dufresne, befriends, Heywood]
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A.
Heywood
Heywood is a town in Greater Manchester, England, historically part of Lancashire and known for its industrial heritage.
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B.
Haddon
Haddon is the middle name of the famed 19th-century British Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon, often called the "Prince of Preachers."
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C.
Morley
Morley is a town in West Yorkshire, England, situated between Leeds and Bradford within the Leeds City Council metropolitan area.
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D.
Morley
Morley is a rural township located within Ontario’s Rainy River District in Canada.
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E.
Morley
Morley is a given name most notably associated with Canadian-American broadcast journalist Morley Safer of CBS’s 60 Minutes.
- 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: Heywood Target entity description: Heywood is a fellow inmate and member of the prison circle of friends in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
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A.
Heywood
Heywood is a town in Greater Manchester, England, historically part of Lancashire and known for its industrial heritage.
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B.
Haddon
Haddon is the middle name of the famed 19th-century British Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon, often called the "Prince of Preachers."
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C.
Morley
Morley is a town in West Yorkshire, England, situated between Leeds and Bradford within the Leeds City Council metropolitan area.
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D.
Morley
Morley is a rural township located within Ontario’s Rainy River District in Canada.
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E.
Morley
Morley is a given name most notably associated with Canadian-American broadcast journalist Morley Safer of CBS’s 60 Minutes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Shawshank Redemption
ⓘ
linked to:
The Shawshank Redemption (1994 film)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994 film) ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Andy Dufresne
ⓘ
Brooks Hatlen ⓘ Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding ⓘ Floyd ⓘ Jigger ⓘ Shawshank State Penitentiary ⓘ Skeet ⓘ |
| basedOn | a character in the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Shawshank Redemption (1994 film) ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film character
ⓘ
prison film character ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Andy's prison circle of friends
ⓘ
Red's group of friends ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | inmate ⓘ |
| partOf |
The Shawshank Redemption franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
The Shawshank Redemption (1994 film)
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| portrayedBy | William Sadler ⓘ |
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: Heywood Description of subject: Heywood is a fellow inmate and member of the prison circle of friends in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.