Bill Haydon
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Bill Haydon is a high-ranking British intelligence officer and charismatic double agent in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Haydon canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2386209 — 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: Bill Haydon Context triple: [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, featuresCharacter, Bill Haydon]
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A.
Peter Hawkins
Peter Hawkins was a British voice actor best known for originating the iconic voices of the Daleks in the classic Doctor Who television series.
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B.
Rupert Grint
Rupert Grint is an English actor best known for playing Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series.
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C.
Harvey Fletcher
Harvey Fletcher was an American physicist and acoustical engineer renowned as a pioneer of stereophonic sound and psychoacoustics.
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D.
Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley is a loyal and often humorous Gryffindor wizard who is Harry Potter’s best friend and a key member of the trio in the Harry Potter series.
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E.
Harvey Grant
Harvey Grant is a former American professional basketball player who played primarily as a forward in the NBA during the late 1980s and 1990s.
- 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: Bill Haydon Target entity description: Bill Haydon is a high-ranking British intelligence officer and charismatic double agent in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
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A.
Peter Hawkins
Peter Hawkins was a British voice actor best known for originating the iconic voices of the Daleks in the classic Doctor Who television series.
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B.
Rupert Grint
Rupert Grint is an English actor best known for playing Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series.
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C.
Harvey Fletcher
Harvey Fletcher was an American physicist and acoustical engineer renowned as a pioneer of stereophonic sound and psychoacoustics.
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D.
Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley is a loyal and often humorous Gryffindor wizard who is Harry Potter’s best friend and a key member of the trio in the Harry Potter series.
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E.
Harvey Grant
Harvey Grant is a former American professional basketball player who played primarily as a forward in the NBA during the late 1980s and 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British intelligence officer
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double agent ⓘ fictional character ⓘ spy ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
1979 BBC television adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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2011 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Soviet Union
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
ⓘ
linked to:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel)
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| betrays |
British intelligence service
ⓘ
linked to:
British intelligence
|
| colleagueOf | George Smiley ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | John le Carré ⓘ |
| education |
Oxford University
ⓘ
linked to:
University of Oxford
|
| employer |
British intelligence service
ⓘ
linked to:
British intelligence
the Circus ⓘ
linked to:
The Circus
|
| fictionalUniverse | George Smiley series ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
ⓘ
linked to:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel)
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| friendOf | George Smiley ⓘ |
| genre | espionage fiction ⓘ |
| hasAffairWith | Ann Smiley ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| memberOf | upper echelons of the Circus ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mole inside British intelligence ⓘ |
| occupation | intelligence officer ⓘ |
| partOf | Karla Trilogy ⓘ |
| position | senior officer at the Circus ⓘ |
| roleInWork | antagonist in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ⓘ |
| spyFor |
Karla
ⓘ
Soviet intelligence ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet intelligence community
|
| themeInvolvement |
betrayal
ⓘ
loyalty and treachery ⓘ |
| trait |
charismatic
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charming ⓘ cultured ⓘ intelligent ⓘ |
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: Bill Haydon Description of subject: Bill Haydon is a high-ranking British intelligence officer and charismatic double agent in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel)
subject linked to:
Jim Prideaux in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film)
subject linked to:
The Circus (fictional British intelligence service)