Beedle
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Beedle is the original surname of American actor William Holden, a major Hollywood star of the mid-20th century known for films like "Sunset Boulevard" and "Stalag 17."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beedle canonical | 3 |
| Richard Beedle | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10280630 — 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: Beedle Context triple: [William Holden, familyName, Beedle]
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A.
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Gussie Fink-Nottle is a shy, newt-obsessed friend of Bertie Wooster in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known for his timidity and comic misadventures.
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B.
Griphook
Griphook is a goblin banker from Gringotts in the Harry Potter series, known for guiding Harry to his vault and later helping him break into Bellatrix Lestrange’s vault.
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C.
Ludo Bagman
Ludo Bagman is a jovial but irresponsible former Quidditch star who serves as head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports and plays a dubious role in the events surrounding the Triwizard Tournament.
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D.
Bustopher Jones
Bustopher Jones is a distinguished, portly cat from T. S. Eliot’s *Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats*, known for his impeccable manners, formal attire, and fondness for gentlemen’s clubs.
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E.
Dobby
Dobby is a loyal and selfless house-elf in the Harry Potter series who becomes a beloved ally to Harry through his acts of courage and sacrifice.
- 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: Beedle Target entity description: Beedle is the original surname of American actor William Holden, a major Hollywood star of the mid-20th century known for films like "Sunset Boulevard" and "Stalag 17."
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A.
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Gussie Fink-Nottle is a shy, newt-obsessed friend of Bertie Wooster in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known for his timidity and comic misadventures.
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B.
Griphook
Griphook is a goblin banker from Gringotts in the Harry Potter series, known for guiding Harry to his vault and later helping him break into Bellatrix Lestrange’s vault.
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C.
Ludo Bagman
Ludo Bagman is a jovial but irresponsible former Quidditch star who serves as head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports and plays a dubious role in the events surrounding the Triwizard Tournament.
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D.
Bustopher Jones
Bustopher Jones is a distinguished, portly cat from T. S. Eliot’s *Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats*, known for his impeccable manners, formal attire, and fondness for gentlemen’s clubs.
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E.
Dobby
Dobby is a loyal and selfless house-elf in the Harry Potter series who becomes a beloved ally to Harry through his acts of courage and sacrifice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
family name ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Actor ⓘ |
| birthName | William Franklin Beedle Jr. ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| etymology | occupational surname related to a beadle or church official ⓘ |
| familyName | Beedle ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Beadle
ⓘ
Bedell ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableBearer | William Holden ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Network
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Picnic ⓘ Sabrina ⓘ Stalag 17 ⓘ Sunset Boulevard ⓘ The Bridge on the River Kwai ⓘ
linked to:
novel "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
The Wild Bunch ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| stageName | William Holden ⓘ |
| usedBy | William Franklin Beedle Jr. ⓘ |
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: Beedle Description of subject: Beedle is the original surname of American actor William Holden, a major Hollywood star of the mid-20th century known for films like "Sunset Boulevard" and "Stalag 17."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.