William McCordle
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William McCordle is a wealthy industrialist and central character in the British period mystery film "Gosford Park."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William McCordle canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11356835 — 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 McCordle Context triple: [Sylvia McCordle, hasSpouse, William McCordle]
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A.
William Cole
William Cole was an 18th-century English clergyman and antiquary best known for his extensive historical and genealogical collections and his close association with Horace Walpole and the Strawberry Hill circle.
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B.
John Meston
John Meston was an American radio and television writer best known for co-creating and shaping the long-running Western series "Gunsmoke."
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C.
William Mathews
William Mathews was a 19th-century British mountaineer notable for pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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D.
Ewart Brown
Ewart Brown is a Bermudian physician and politician who served as Premier of Bermuda from 2006 to 2010 as leader of the Progressive Labour Party.
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E.
William Edmonds
William Edmonds is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Edmonds, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly established from this context alone.
- 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 McCordle Target entity description: William McCordle is a wealthy industrialist and central character in the British period mystery film "Gosford Park."
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A.
William Cole
William Cole was an 18th-century English clergyman and antiquary best known for his extensive historical and genealogical collections and his close association with Horace Walpole and the Strawberry Hill circle.
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B.
John Meston
John Meston was an American radio and television writer best known for co-creating and shaping the long-running Western series "Gunsmoke."
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C.
William Mathews
William Mathews was a 19th-century British mountaineer notable for pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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D.
Ewart Brown
Ewart Brown is a Bermudian physician and politician who served as Premier of Bermuda from 2006 to 2010 as leader of the Progressive Labour Party.
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E.
William Edmonds
William Edmonds is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Edmonds, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly established from this context alone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Gosford Park ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdForWorkBy |
Julian Fellowes
ⓘ
Robert Altman ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn |
mystery film
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period drama film ⓘ |
| hasSocialStatus | upper class ⓘ |
| isA | wealthy businessman ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearsIn | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
employer of domestic servants
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wealthy ⓘ |
| occupation | industrialist ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
Gosford Park universe
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linked to:
Gosford Park
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| settingOfFiction | England ⓘ |
| workReleaseYear | 2001 ⓘ |
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 McCordle Description of subject: William McCordle is a wealthy industrialist and central character in the British period mystery film "Gosford Park."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.