Scott Wilson
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Scott Wilson was an American character actor best known for his roles in films like "In Cold Blood," "In the Heat of the Night," and later as Hershel Greene on the television series "The Walking Dead."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Scott Wilson canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3315595 — 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: Scott Wilson Context triple: [The Great Gatsby (1974 film), starring, Scott Wilson]
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A.
Larry Wilson
Larry Wilson is an American film producer and screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic dark comedy fantasy film "Beetlejuice."
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B.
Jo Wilson
Jo Wilson is a fictional surgical doctor on the television series Grey’s Anatomy, known for her complex personal history and evolving relationships at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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C.
Roger Wilson
Roger Wilson is a character who appears alongside Roger Chillingworth in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel "The Scarlet Letter."
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D.
Brian Wilkins
Brian Wilkins is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer on the series "Hand of God."
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E.
Paul Caldwell Wilson
Paul Caldwell Wilson was the husband of Frances Perkins, the first female U.S. Secretary of Labor and a key architect of New Deal social policies.
- 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: Scott Wilson Target entity description: Scott Wilson was an American character actor best known for his roles in films like "In Cold Blood," "In the Heat of the Night," and later as Hershel Greene on the television series "The Walking Dead."
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A.
Larry Wilson
Larry Wilson is an American film producer and screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic dark comedy fantasy film "Beetlejuice."
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B.
Jo Wilson
Jo Wilson is a fictional surgical doctor on the television series Grey’s Anatomy, known for her complex personal history and evolving relationships at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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C.
Roger Wilson
Roger Wilson is a character who appears alongside Roger Chillingworth in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel "The Scarlet Letter."
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D.
Brian Wilkins
Brian Wilkins is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer on the series "Hand of God."
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E.
Paul Caldwell Wilson
Paul Caldwell Wilson was the husband of Frances Perkins, the first female U.S. Secretary of Labor and a key architect of New Deal social policies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Scott Wilson Description of subject: Scott Wilson was an American character actor best known for his roles in films like "In Cold Blood," "In the Heat of the Night," and later as Hershel Greene on the television series "The Walking Dead."
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.