Bill Roach
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Bill Roach is a character in John le Carré’s novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," a shy schoolboy whose suspicions about his teacher help uncover a larger espionage plot.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Roach canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11036302 — 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: Bill Roach Context triple: [Jim Prideaux, friendOf, Bill Roach]
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A.
Brian McCaskey
Brian McCaskey is a member of the McCaskey family that owns the Chicago Bears and serves as an executive within the NFL franchise’s front office.
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B.
Mark Parker
Mark Parker is an American businessman best known for serving as the longtime CEO and later executive chairman of Nike, Inc.
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C.
John Sculley
John Sculley is an American businessman best known for serving as Apple’s CEO in the 1980s after being recruited from PepsiCo, during which time he both helped expand the company and clashed with Steve Jobs.
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D.
Norm Johnson
Norm Johnson was a prominent ice hockey player best known for his standout performances with the Portland Buckaroos in the Western Hockey League.
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E.
Roy Conli
Roy Conli is an American film producer best known for his work on major Walt Disney Animation Studios features such as "Treasure Planet" and the Academy Award-winning "Big Hero 6."
- 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: Bill Roach Target entity description: Bill Roach is a character in John le Carré’s novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," a shy schoolboy whose suspicions about his teacher help uncover a larger espionage plot.
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A.
Brian McCaskey
Brian McCaskey is a member of the McCaskey family that owns the Chicago Bears and serves as an executive within the NFL franchise’s front office.
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B.
Mark Parker
Mark Parker is an American businessman best known for serving as the longtime CEO and later executive chairman of Nike, Inc.
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C.
John Sculley
John Sculley is an American businessman best known for serving as Apple’s CEO in the 1980s after being recruited from PepsiCo, during which time he both helped expand the company and clashed with Steve Jobs.
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D.
Norm Johnson
Norm Johnson was a prominent ice hockey player best known for his standout performances with the Portland Buckaroos in the Western Hockey League.
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E.
Roy Conli
Roy Conli is an American film producer best known for his work on major Walt Disney Animation Studios features such as "Treasure Planet" and the Academy Award-winning "Big Hero 6."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
ⓘ
linked to:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel)
|
| appearsInAdaptation |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series)
ⓘ
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film) ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | George Smiley series ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
espionage
ⓘ
innocence ⓘ mistrust ⓘ observation ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | John le Carré ⓘ |
| education | English boarding school ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
ⓘ
linked to:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasSuspicionAbout | Jim Prideaux ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
observer
ⓘ
witness ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | schoolboy ⓘ |
| personalityTrait | shy ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork | Hodder & Stoughton ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | catalyst for uncovering espionage plot ⓘ |
| setting | British public school ⓘ |
| teacher | Jim Prideaux ⓘ |
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: Bill Roach Description of subject: Bill Roach is a character in John le Carré’s novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," a shy schoolboy whose suspicions about his teacher help uncover a larger espionage plot.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.