William Lee Scott
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William Lee Scott is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Opposite of Sex" and the television series "The Steve Harvey Show."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Lee Scott canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3785106 — 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 Lee Scott Context triple: [The Opposite of Sex, starring, William Lee Scott]
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A.
Philip Woodruff
Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
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B.
William Howell Davis
William Howell Davis was the son of Varina Howell Davis and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, belonging to a prominent family in American Civil War history.
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C.
David Marvin Blake
David Marvin Blake is an American rapper, DJ, and record producer best known by his stage name DJ Quik, a prominent figure in West Coast hip hop.
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D.
Richard Oakes
Richard Oakes was a Mohawk Native American activist best known for helping lead the 1969–1971 occupation of Alcatraz Island, a landmark protest in the Red Power movement.
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E.
William Lee Davidson
William Lee Davidson was an American Revolutionary War officer from North Carolina who was killed in battle in 1781 and later honored as the namesake of Davidson County.
- 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 Lee Scott Target entity description: William Lee Scott is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Opposite of Sex" and the television series "The Steve Harvey Show."
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A.
Philip Woodruff
Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
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B.
William Howell Davis
William Howell Davis was the son of Varina Howell Davis and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, belonging to a prominent family in American Civil War history.
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C.
David Marvin Blake
David Marvin Blake is an American rapper, DJ, and record producer best known by his stage name DJ Quik, a prominent figure in West Coast hip hop.
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D.
Richard Oakes
Richard Oakes was a Mohawk Native American activist best known for helping lead the 1969–1971 occupation of Alcatraz Island, a landmark protest in the Red Power movement.
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E.
William Lee Davidson
William Lee Davidson was an American Revolutionary War officer from North Carolina who was killed in battle in 1781 and later honored as the namesake of Davidson County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Scott ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ romantic comedy ⓘ teen film ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasActingStyle | character actor ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | White American ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | live-action performance ⓘ |
| notableFor |
recurring television roles
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supporting roles in feature films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Butter
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linked to:
Butter (score)
Gone in 60 Seconds ⓘ October Sky ⓘ Pearl Harbor ⓘ The Bates Haunting ⓘ The Butterfly Effect ⓘ The Opposite of Sex ⓘ The Steve Harvey Show ⓘ
linked to:
The Steve Harvey Show (sitcom)
|
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
cast of Butter
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cast of Gone in 60 Seconds ⓘ cast of October Sky ⓘ cast of Pearl Harbor ⓘ cast of The Butterfly Effect ⓘ cast of The Opposite of Sex ⓘ cast of The Steve Harvey Show ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Stanley Kuznocki in The Opposite of Sex
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U.S. serviceman in Pearl Harbor ⓘ motorcycle gang member in Gone in 60 Seconds ⓘ student character in October Sky ⓘ student on The Steve Harvey Show ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| worksInLanguage | English-language productions ⓘ |
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 Lee Scott Description of subject: William Lee Scott is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Opposite of Sex" and the television series "The Steve Harvey Show."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.