William Mapother
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William Mapother is an American character actor known for his intense supporting roles in film and television, including a notable performance in the drama "In the Bedroom."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Mapother canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10032177 — 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 Mapother Context triple: [In the Bedroom, castMember, William Mapother]
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A.
Martin Holbrook
Martin Holbrook is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Holbrook.
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B.
William Vandivert
William Vandivert was an American photojournalist best known as one of the founding members of the Magnum Photos cooperative.
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C.
Matthias Ogden
Matthias Ogden was an American Revolutionary War officer and early New Jersey political figure known for his service as a colonel in the Continental Army.
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D.
Nathaniel Parker
Nathaniel Parker is an English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in adaptations of classic literature and popular detective dramas.
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E.
Samuel Dracott
Samuel Dracott is an individual whose name appears in records with the variant spelling "Samuel Dracutt."
- 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 Mapother Target entity description: William Mapother is an American character actor known for his intense supporting roles in film and television, including a notable performance in the drama "In the Bedroom."
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A.
Martin Holbrook
Martin Holbrook is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Holbrook.
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B.
William Vandivert
William Vandivert was an American photojournalist best known as one of the founding members of the Magnum Photos cooperative.
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C.
Matthias Ogden
Matthias Ogden was an American Revolutionary War officer and early New Jersey political figure known for his service as a colonel in the Continental Army.
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D.
Nathaniel Parker
Nathaniel Parker is an English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in adaptations of classic literature and popular detective dramas.
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E.
Samuel Dracott
Samuel Dracott is an individual whose name appears in records with the variant spelling "Samuel Dracutt."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Mapother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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horror film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasActingStyle |
intense
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often villainous roles ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRelativeType | cousin of Tom Cruise ⓘ |
| knownFor | intense supporting roles ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ |
| name | William Mapother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableCharacter | Ethan Rom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Another Earth
NERFINISHED
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ Criminal Minds NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Bedroom NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ Lost NERFINISHED ⓘ Minority Report NERFINISHED ⓘ Mission: Impossible II NERFINISHED ⓘ NCIS NERFINISHED ⓘ The Burrowers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Grudge NERFINISHED ⓘ Without a Trace NERFINISHED ⓘ World Trade Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
character actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
American film actors
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American television actors ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Ethan Rom in Lost
NERFINISHED
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Richard Strout in In the Bedroom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Tom Cruise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
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 Mapother Description of subject: William Mapother is an American character actor known for his intense supporting roles in film and television, including a notable performance in the drama "In the Bedroom."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.