William Lanteau
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William Lanteau was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, including a notable appearance in the drama "On Golden Pond."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Lanteau canonical | 2 |
| Charles Lewin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3422741 — 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 Lanteau Context triple: [On Golden Pond, starring, William Lanteau]
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A.
Charles Leavitt
Charles Leavitt is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Blood Diamond."
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B.
George Hildebrand
George Hildebrand was an American Major League Baseball umpire active in the early 20th century.
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C.
George Pardee
George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
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D.
Theodore St. John
Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
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E.
Charles Stillman
Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
- 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 Lanteau Target entity description: William Lanteau was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, including a notable appearance in the drama "On Golden Pond."
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A.
Charles Leavitt
Charles Leavitt is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Blood Diamond."
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B.
George Hildebrand
George Hildebrand was an American Major League Baseball umpire active in the early 20th century.
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C.
George Pardee
George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
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D.
Theodore St. John
Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
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E.
Charles Stillman
Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Lanteau ⓘ |
| genre |
film
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television ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | William Lanteau ⓘ |
| notability |
known for appearance in the drama "On Golden Pond"
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known for supporting roles in film and television ⓘ |
| notableWork | On Golden Pond ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workType | supporting roles ⓘ |
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 Lanteau Description of subject: William Lanteau was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, including a notable appearance in the drama "On Golden Pond."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: William Lanteau