William Hickey
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William Hickey was an American character actor known for his distinctive raspy voice and eccentric roles in film, television, and theater.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Hickey canonical | 17 |
| William Edward Hickey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2894034 — 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 Hickey Context triple: [The Nightmare Before Christmas, voiceActor, William Hickey]
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A.
Murray Slaughter
Murray Slaughter is a fictional television news writer best known as a central character on the classic sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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B.
Douglas Guilfoyle
Douglas Guilfoyle is an international law scholar known for his work on the law of the sea, maritime security, and international criminal law.
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C.
Richard Jolley
Richard Jolley is an American glass artist renowned for his large-scale figurative sculptures and significant contributions to contemporary studio glass.
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D.
John Killoran
John Killoran is an actor known for his role in the National Theatre’s acclaimed stage production of "Frankenstein."
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E.
Paul Guilfoyle
Paul Guilfoyle is an American actor best known for playing Captain Jim Brass on the long-running television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
- 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 Hickey Target entity description: William Hickey was an American character actor known for his distinctive raspy voice and eccentric roles in film, television, and theater.
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A.
Murray Slaughter
Murray Slaughter is a fictional television news writer best known as a central character on the classic sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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B.
Douglas Guilfoyle
Douglas Guilfoyle is an international law scholar known for his work on the law of the sea, maritime security, and international criminal law.
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C.
Richard Jolley
Richard Jolley is an American glass artist renowned for his large-scale figurative sculptures and significant contributions to contemporary studio glass.
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D.
John Killoran
John Killoran is an actor known for his role in the National Theatre’s acclaimed stage production of "Frankenstein."
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E.
Paul Guilfoyle
Paul Guilfoyle is an American actor best known for playing Captain Jim Brass on the long-running television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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 Hickey Description of subject: William Hickey was an American character actor known for his distinctive raspy voice and eccentric roles in film, television, and theater.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: William Hickey
subject linked to:
Dr. Finkelstein in The Nightmare Before Christmas
subject linked to:
Don Corrado Prizzi in Prizzi's Honor