Ben Willis
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Ben Willis is the hook-wielding serial killer known as the Fisherman, the central slasher villain in the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" horror film series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Willis canonical | 14 |
| Ben Willis (character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1864677 — 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: Ben Willis Context triple: [I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, antagonist, Ben Willis]
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A.
John Willis
John Willis was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command.
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B.
Grant Withers
Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
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C.
Oscar Furlong
Oscar Furlong was an Argentine basketball player renowned as one of the sport’s early international stars, particularly for leading Argentina to prominence in the mid-20th century.
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D.
William D. Moseley
William D. Moseley was an American politician who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Florida after it achieved statehood in 1845.
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E.
Will Adams
Will Adams is the birth name of will.i.am, the American rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a founding member of the Black Eyed Peas.
- 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: Ben Willis Target entity description: Ben Willis is the hook-wielding serial killer known as the Fisherman, the central slasher villain in the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" horror film series.
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A.
John Willis
John Willis was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command.
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B.
Grant Withers
Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
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C.
Oscar Furlong
Oscar Furlong was an Argentine basketball player renowned as one of the sport’s early international stars, particularly for leading Argentina to prominence in the mid-20th century.
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D.
William D. Moseley
William D. Moseley was an American politician who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Florida after it achieved statehood in 1845.
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E.
Will Adams
Will Adams is the birth name of will.i.am, the American rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a founding member of the Black Eyed Peas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ serial killer ⓘ slasher villain ⓘ |
| alias | The Fisherman ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
I Know What You Did Last Summer
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (TV series) ⓘ I Still Know What You Did Last Summer ⓘ I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer ⓘ |
| basedOn | antagonist from Lois Duncan's novel I Know What You Did Last Summer ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Lois Duncan ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | I Know What You Did Last Summer ⓘ |
| franchise | I Know What You Did Last Summer ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | slasher horror ⓘ |
| hasFictionalStatus | presumed dead multiple times ⓘ |
| killsUsing | hook ⓘ |
| motivation | revenge ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
stalks and kills teenagers
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wears a slicker and fisherman’s hat ⓘ |
| notableFor |
I Know What You Did Last Summer film series
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linked to:
I Know What You Did Last Summer
being a hook-wielding killer in a rain slicker ⓘ |
| occupation | fisherman ⓘ |
| partOf | 1990s teen slasher film wave ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Muse Watson
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other actors in later installments and adaptations ⓘ |
| roleInSeries | primary antagonist ⓘ |
| targetVictims | group of teenagers who covered up a hit-and-run accident ⓘ |
| weapon | fishing hook ⓘ |
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: Ben Willis Description of subject: Ben Willis is the hook-wielding serial killer known as the Fisherman, the central slasher villain in the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" horror film series.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ben Willis
subject linked to:
Barry Cox in I Know What You Did Last Summer
subject linked to:
Barry Cox in I Know What You Did Last Summer
subject linked to:
Barry Cox in I Know What You Did Last Summer
subject linked to:
Barry Cox in I Know What You Did Last Summer
subject linked to:
Barry Cox in I Know What You Did Last Summer