Will Patton
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Will Patton is an American actor known for his versatile character roles in film and television, including prominent parts in projects like "Remember the Titans," "Armageddon," and "Falling Skies."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Will Patton canonical | 39 |
| William Rankin Patton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1042016 — 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: Will Patton Context triple: [Captain Weaver, portrayedBy, Will Patton]
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A.
Audie Murphy
Audie Murphy was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II who later became a popular Hollywood actor and a symbol of military heroism.
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B.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
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C.
Richard Hull
Richard Hull was an 18th-century English architect best known for designing and constructing Leith Hill Tower in Surrey.
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D.
George C. Scott
George C. Scott was an acclaimed American actor and director best known for his intense, commanding performances in films such as "Patton," for which he won (and famously refused) the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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E.
Clarence John Brown III
Clarence John Brown III, better known as Clancy Brown, is an American actor and voice actor renowned for his deep, resonant voice and roles in works such as The Shawshank Redemption, Highlander, and SpongeBob SquarePants.
- 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: Will Patton Target entity description: Will Patton is an American actor known for his versatile character roles in film and television, including prominent parts in projects like "Remember the Titans," "Armageddon," and "Falling Skies."
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A.
Audie Murphy
Audie Murphy was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II who later became a popular Hollywood actor and a symbol of military heroism.
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B.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
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C.
Richard Hull
Richard Hull was an 18th-century English architect best known for designing and constructing Leith Hill Tower in Surrey.
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D.
George C. Scott
George C. Scott was an acclaimed American actor and director best known for his intense, commanding performances in films such as "Patton," for which he won (and famously refused) the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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E.
Clarence John Brown III
Clarence John Brown III, better known as Clancy Brown, is an American actor and voice actor renowned for his deep, resonant voice and roles in works such as The Shawshank Redemption, Highlander, and SpongeBob SquarePants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Will Patton Description of subject: Will Patton is an American actor known for his versatile character roles in film and television, including prominent parts in projects like "Remember the Titans," "Armageddon," and "Falling Skies."
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Falling Skies
subject linked to:
Gone in 60 Seconds
linked to: Will Patton
subject linked to:
Coach Bill Yoast in Remember the Titans
subject linked to:
Charles "Chick" Chapple in Armageddon