Virgil Williams
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Virgil Williams is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the critically acclaimed film "Mudbound" and for his work on television dramas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virgil Williams canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4101087 — 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: Virgil Williams Context triple: [Mudbound, screenwriter, Virgil Williams]
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A.
Randall Thompson
Randall Thompson was a prominent 20th-century American composer best known for his choral works, including the frequently performed piece "Alleluia."
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B.
Jerome Moross
Jerome Moross was an American composer best known for his sweeping, Americana-infused film scores and concert works, particularly in the Western genre.
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C.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British composer best known for his light orchestral music and popular marches that became widely familiar through radio and film.
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D.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British computer scientist known for his involvement in early information retrieval and classification research, including work with the influential Classification Research Group.
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E.
Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison was an American composer known for blending Western classical traditions with non-Western musical influences, especially Indonesian gamelan.
- 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: Virgil Williams Target entity description: Virgil Williams is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the critically acclaimed film "Mudbound" and for his work on television dramas.
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A.
Randall Thompson
Randall Thompson was a prominent 20th-century American composer best known for his choral works, including the frequently performed piece "Alleluia."
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B.
Jerome Moross
Jerome Moross was an American composer best known for his sweeping, Americana-infused film scores and concert works, particularly in the Western genre.
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C.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British composer best known for his light orchestral music and popular marches that became widely familiar through radio and film.
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D.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British computer scientist known for his involvement in early information retrieval and classification research, including work with the influential Classification Research Group.
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E.
Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison was an American composer known for blending Western classical traditions with non-Western musical influences, especially Indonesian gamelan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Mudbound (novel by Hillary Jordan)
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linked to:
Mudbound
|
| collaboratedWith |
Dee Rees
ⓘ
Hillary Jordan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | Mudbound ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-writing Mudbound
ⓘ
writing for television dramas ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
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BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ Writers Guild of America Award ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying racial and social issues in Mudbound ⓘ |
| notableWork | Mudbound ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| workedOn |
24
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Criminal Minds ⓘ ER ⓘ Six Degrees ⓘ
linked to:
Six Degrees (TV series)
The Chicago Code ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Virgil Williams Description of subject: Virgil Williams is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the critically acclaimed film "Mudbound" and for his work on television dramas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.