Wilder
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Wilder is a common English surname borne by various notable figures in literature, film, and other fields.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wilder canonical | 12 |
| Wilder (We’re Chained) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2676853 — 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: Wilder Context triple: [Thornton Wilder, familyName, Wilder]
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A.
Orson
Orson is a masculine given name most famously associated with the American filmmaker and actor Orson Welles.
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B.
Lud Wray
Lud Wray was an early professional football coach and executive best known for co-founding and serving as the first head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL.
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C.
Wyler
Wyler is a surname most notably associated with William Wyler, the acclaimed film director known for classics such as "Ben-Hur" and "Roman Holiday."
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D.
Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld is an American actress known for her work in film and television from the late 1950s onward, including acclaimed performances in movies like "The Cincinnati Kid" and "Looking for Mr. Goodbar."
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E.
Oscar Folsom
Oscar Folsom was an American lawyer from Buffalo, New York, best known as the father of Frances Folsom Cleveland, the youngest First Lady in U.S. history.
- 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: Wilder Target entity description: Wilder is a common English surname borne by various notable figures in literature, film, and other fields.
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A.
Orson
Orson is a masculine given name most famously associated with the American filmmaker and actor Orson Welles.
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B.
Lud Wray
Lud Wray was an early professional football coach and executive best known for co-founding and serving as the first head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL.
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C.
Wyler
Wyler is a surname most notably associated with William Wyler, the acclaimed film director known for classics such as "Ben-Hur" and "Roman Holiday."
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D.
Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld is an American actress known for her work in film and television from the late 1950s onward, including acclaimed performances in movies like "The Cincinnati Kid" and "Looking for Mr. Goodbar."
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E.
Oscar Folsom
Oscar Folsom was an American lawyer from Buffalo, New York, best known as the father of Frances Folsom Cleveland, the youngest First Lady in U.S. history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alfred Wilder
ⓘ
Amos Niven Wilder ⓘ Billy Wilder ⓘ Claudia Wilder ⓘ Craig Wilder ⓘ Gene Wilder ⓘ Isabella Wilder ⓘ
linked to:
Isabel Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder ⓘ Marshall P. Wilder ⓘ Matthew Wilder ⓘ Michael Wilder ⓘ Robert Wilder ⓘ Skip Wilder ⓘ T. H. Wilder ⓘ
linked to:
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder ⓘ Wilder Anderson ⓘ Wilder Brown ⓘ Wilder Cartagena ⓘ Wilder D. Foster ⓘ Wilder Daniels ⓘ Wilder Davis ⓘ Wilder Dwight Bancroft ⓘ Wilder Graves Penfield ⓘ
linked to:
Wilder Penfield
Wilder Guisao ⓘ Wilder Harris ⓘ Wilder Hobson ⓘ Wilder Jackson ⓘ Wilder Johnson ⓘ Wilder Medina ⓘ Wilder Miller ⓘ Wilder Morgan ⓘ Wilder Penfield ⓘ Wilder Richards ⓘ Wilder Scott ⓘ Wilder Smith ⓘ Wilder Stevens ⓘ Wilder Taylor ⓘ Wilder Thomas ⓘ Wilder Thompson ⓘ Wilder W. Hartley ⓘ Wilder Weir ⓘ Wilder White ⓘ Wilder Williams ⓘ Wilder Wilson ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
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: Wilder Description of subject: Wilder is a common English surname borne by various notable figures in literature, film, and other fields.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.