William Worthington (director)
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William Worthington was an early 20th-century American film director and actor known for his work during the silent film era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Worthington (director) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9333173 — 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 Worthington (director) Context triple: [Worthington, hasNotableBearer, William Worthington (director)]
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A.
Joe Gill
Joe Gill was an American comic book writer best known for his prolific work at Charlton Comics, where he co-created characters such as Peacemaker.
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B.
Geoffrey Fletcher
Geoffrey Fletcher is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for his Academy Award–winning adapted screenplay for the film "Precious."
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C.
Charles Farrell
Charles Farrell was an American film actor best known as a popular romantic leading man of the late silent and early sound era, frequently paired on screen with Janet Gaynor.
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D.
Richie Wise
Richie Wise is a musician best known as a member of the hard rock band Dust.
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E.
Michael Cormac Newell
Michael Cormac Newell is a British film director best known for movies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Donnie Brasco," and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
- 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 Worthington (director) Target entity description: William Worthington was an early 20th-century American film director and actor known for his work during the silent film era.
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A.
Joe Gill
Joe Gill was an American comic book writer best known for his prolific work at Charlton Comics, where he co-created characters such as Peacemaker.
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B.
Geoffrey Fletcher
Geoffrey Fletcher is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for his Academy Award–winning adapted screenplay for the film "Precious."
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C.
Charles Farrell
Charles Farrell was an American film actor best known as a popular romantic leading man of the late silent and early sound era, frequently paired on screen with Janet Gaynor.
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D.
Richie Wise
Richie Wise is a musician best known as a member of the hard rock band Dust.
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E.
Michael Cormac Newell
Michael Cormac Newell is a British film director best known for movies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Donnie Brasco," and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | silent film era ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
silent adventure film
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silent drama film ⓘ silent romance film ⓘ |
| industry | motion pictures ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | silent film ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acting in silent films
ⓘ
directing silent films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Beggar of Cawnpore
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The Dragon Painter ⓘ The Gray Wolf’s Ghost ⓘ The Man from Mexico ⓘ The White Pearl ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| partOf | early 20th-century American cinema ⓘ |
| workedIn |
American film industry
ⓘ
linked to:
American cinema
|
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 Worthington (director) Description of subject: William Worthington was an early 20th-century American film director and actor known for his work during the silent film era.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.