William Shatner
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Canadian person
actor
author
film actor
film director
film producer
human
musician
television actor
voice actor
William Shatner is a Canadian actor best known for his iconic role as Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek television series and films.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Shatner canonical | 107 |
| Shatner | 2 |
| William Shatner as Ozzie | 2 |
| William Shatner (celebrity wing) | 1 |
| William Shatner (dual role as George Samuel Kirk) | 1 |
| William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk | 1 |
| WilliamShatner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3096409 — 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 Shatner Context triple: [The Changeling, originalSeriesLeadActor, William Shatner]
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A.
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy was an American actor, director, and author best known for originating the iconic role of Spock in the Star Trek franchise.
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B.
Walter Koenig
Walter Koenig is an American actor best known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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C.
David Hedison
David Hedison was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the 1960s sci-fi series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and for appearing in two James Bond films.
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D.
Chris Hargensen
Chris Hargensen is a central antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "Carrie," known as a cruel high school bully whose actions help trigger the story’s catastrophic climax.
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E.
Robert MacNeil
Robert MacNeil is a Canadian-American journalist and author best known for co-creating and co-anchoring the long-running public television news program that became PBS NewsHour.
- 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 Shatner Target entity description: William Shatner is a Canadian actor best known for his iconic role as Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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A.
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy was an American actor, director, and author best known for originating the iconic role of Spock in the Star Trek franchise.
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B.
Walter Koenig
Walter Koenig is an American actor best known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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C.
David Hedison
David Hedison was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the 1960s sci-fi series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and for appearing in two James Bond films.
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D.
Chris Hargensen
Chris Hargensen is a central antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "Carrie," known as a cruel high school bully whose actions help trigger the story’s catastrophic climax.
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E.
Robert MacNeil
Robert MacNeil is a Canadian-American journalist and author best known for co-creating and co-anchoring the long-running public television news program that became PBS NewsHour.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (74)
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 Shatner Description of subject: William Shatner is a Canadian actor best known for his iconic role as Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek television series and films.
Referenced by (115)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
"The Changeling"
subject linked to:
Star Trek episode "Amok Time"
linked to: William Shatner
subject linked to:
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
linked to: William Shatner
linked to: William Shatner
linked to: William Shatner
linked to: William Shatner
subject linked to:
Operation -- Annihilate!
subject linked to:
Operation -- Annihilate!
linked to: William Shatner
subject linked to:
Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Man Trap"
subject linked to:
Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Space Seed"