Larry Williams
E241231
Larry Williams was the husband of pioneering African American actress and Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Williams canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2179044 — 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: Larry Williams Context triple: [Hattie McDaniel, spouse, Larry Williams]
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A.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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B.
Alvin Wyckoff
Alvin Wyckoff was an American cinematographer of the silent film era, known for his innovative camera work on numerous early Hollywood productions.
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C.
Joseph Wiseman
Joseph Wiseman was a Canadian character actor best known for portraying the titular villain in the first James Bond film, "Dr. No."
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D.
Lyle Bettger
Lyle Bettger was an American character actor best known for his frequent portrayals of suave villains in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television.
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E.
Perry Hamer
Perry Hamer was the husband of prominent civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and a supportive partner in her work for racial and social justice in Mississippi.
- 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: Larry Williams Target entity description: Larry Williams was the husband of pioneering African American actress and Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel.
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A.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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B.
Alvin Wyckoff
Alvin Wyckoff was an American cinematographer of the silent film era, known for his innovative camera work on numerous early Hollywood productions.
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C.
Joseph Wiseman
Joseph Wiseman was a Canadian character actor best known for portraying the titular villain in the first James Bond film, "Dr. No."
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D.
Lyle Bettger
Lyle Bettger was an American character actor best known for his frequent portrayals of suave villains in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television.
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E.
Perry Hamer
Perry Hamer was the husband of prominent civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and a supportive partner in her work for racial and social justice in Mississippi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
African American ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| notableFor | being the husband of Hattie McDaniel ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| partnerOf |
Hattie McDaniel
ⓘ
Larry Williams ⓘ |
| spouse |
Hattie McDaniel
ⓘ
Larry Williams ⓘ |
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: Larry Williams Description of subject: Larry Williams was the husband of pioneering African American actress and Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.