William Holden
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William Holden was an acclaimed American film actor known for his charismatic performances in classics such as "Sunset Boulevard," "Stalag 17," and "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Holden canonical | 91 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008012 — 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 Holden Context triple: [The Towering Inferno, starring, William Holden]
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Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift was an acclaimed American actor and early method acting pioneer, known for his intense, emotionally nuanced performances in classic films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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B.
Ray Milland
Ray Milland was a Welsh-born American actor and director best known for his Academy Award-winning performance as an alcoholic writer in the 1945 film "The Lost Weekend."
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C.
Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker known for his athletic, romantic leading roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and later for directing and starring in the survival adventure "The Naked Prey."
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D.
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy was an acclaimed American film actor renowned for his naturalistic performances and two Academy Award–winning roles in a career spanning from the 1930s to the 1960s.
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E.
Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Douglas was an acclaimed American actor known for his sophisticated screen presence and award-winning performances in both classic Hollywood films and later character roles.
- 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 Holden Target entity description: William Holden was an acclaimed American film actor known for his charismatic performances in classics such as "Sunset Boulevard," "Stalag 17," and "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
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A.
Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift was an acclaimed American actor and early method acting pioneer, known for his intense, emotionally nuanced performances in classic films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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B.
Ray Milland
Ray Milland was a Welsh-born American actor and director best known for his Academy Award-winning performance as an alcoholic writer in the 1945 film "The Lost Weekend."
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C.
Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker known for his athletic, romantic leading roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and later for directing and starring in the survival adventure "The Naked Prey."
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D.
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy was an acclaimed American film actor renowned for his naturalistic performances and two Academy Award–winning roles in a career spanning from the 1930s to the 1960s.
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E.
Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Douglas was an acclaimed American actor known for his sophisticated screen presence and award-winning performances in both classic Hollywood films and later character roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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 Holden Description of subject: William Holden was an acclaimed American film actor known for his charismatic performances in classics such as "Sunset Boulevard," "Stalag 17," and "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
Referenced by (91)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California, United States
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Sabrina
Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California, United States
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William Holden
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The Moon Is Blue (film)
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Broadway play "The Country Girl"