Ann Williams
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Ann Williams is an American dancer, choreographer, and arts educator best known as the founder and longtime artistic director of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ann Williams canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1083189 — 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: Ann Williams Context triple: [Dallas Black Dance Theatre, foundedBy, Ann Williams]
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A.
Mary Williams
Mary Williams was the wife of American planter and statesman Henry Middleton, a prominent figure in colonial South Carolina.
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B.
Ann Sadler
Ann Sadler was the wife of John Harvard, the English clergyman and benefactor after whom Harvard University is named.
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C.
Lisa Rogers
Lisa Rogers is a member of the Rogers family, known as the daughter of Canadian businessman and media magnate Ted Rogers.
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D.
Margo Anderson
Margo Anderson is best known as a former wife of American country music star Kenny Rogers.
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E.
Christine Campbell
Christine Campbell is the neurotic yet resilient single-mom protagonist of the sitcom "The New Adventures of Old Christine," portrayed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
- 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: Ann Williams Target entity description: Ann Williams is an American dancer, choreographer, and arts educator best known as the founder and longtime artistic director of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre.
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A.
Mary Williams
Mary Williams was the wife of American planter and statesman Henry Middleton, a prominent figure in colonial South Carolina.
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B.
Ann Sadler
Ann Sadler was the wife of John Harvard, the English clergyman and benefactor after whom Harvard University is named.
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C.
Lisa Rogers
Lisa Rogers is a member of the Rogers family, known as the daughter of Canadian businessman and media magnate Ted Rogers.
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D.
Margo Anderson
Margo Anderson is best known as a former wife of American country music star Kenny Rogers.
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E.
Christine Campbell
Christine Campbell is the neurotic yet resilient single-mom protagonist of the sitcom "The New Adventures of Old Christine," portrayed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artistic director
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arts educator ⓘ choreographer ⓘ dance company ⓘ dancer ⓘ founder ⓘ human ⓘ |
| artisticDirector | Ann Williams ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Dallas Black Dance Theatre ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
arts education
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choreography ⓘ dance ⓘ |
| founder | Ann Williams ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding the Dallas Black Dance Theatre
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serving as artistic director of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre ⓘ |
| location | Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dallas Black Dance Theatre ⓘ |
| occupation |
arts educator
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choreographer ⓘ dancer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
artistic director of Dallas Black Dance Theatre
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founder of Dallas Black Dance Theatre ⓘ |
| workLocation | Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
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: Ann Williams Description of subject: Ann Williams is an American dancer, choreographer, and arts educator best known as the founder and longtime artistic director of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.