Larry Williams
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Larry Williams was an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist best known for 1950s hits like "Bony Moronie" and "Short Fat Fannie."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Williams canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10579859 — 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: Larry Williams Context triple: [Specialty Records, hasArtist, Larry Williams]
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A.
Larry Williams
Larry Williams was the husband of pioneering African American actress and Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel.
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B.
Keith Barish
Keith Barish is an American film producer and financier known for founding Keith Barish Productions and co-founding the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain.
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C.
Larry Davis
Larry Davis is best known as a former husband of actress Kim Cattrall.
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D.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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E.
Larry Steers
Larry Steers was a prolific American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, appearing in hundreds of movies in mostly uncredited or supporting roles.
- 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: Larry Williams Target entity description: Larry Williams was an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist best known for 1950s hits like "Bony Moronie" and "Short Fat Fannie."
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A.
Larry Williams
Larry Williams was the husband of pioneering African American actress and Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel.
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B.
Keith Barish
Keith Barish is an American film producer and financier known for founding Keith Barish Productions and co-founding the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain.
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C.
Larry Davis
Larry Davis is best known as a former husband of actress Kim Cattrall.
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D.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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E.
Larry Steers
Larry Steers was a prolific American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, appearing in hundreds of movies in mostly uncredited or supporting roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Larry Williams Description of subject: Larry Williams was an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist best known for 1950s hits like "Bony Moronie" and "Short Fat Fannie."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.