William Post Jr.
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William Post Jr. was an American character actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his supporting roles in films and early television, including appearances in mystery and crime dramas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Post Jr. canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4422644 — 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 Post Jr. Context triple: [Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, stars, William Post Jr.]
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A.
George Tibbets
George Tibbets is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Tibbets, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
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B.
John C. Tibbets
John C. Tibbets is an American film historian, author, and former television broadcaster known for his work on cinema history and interviews with prominent filmmakers and actors.
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C.
Walter Tibbets
Walter Tibbets is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Tibbets.
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D.
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. was an American Air Force officer and the first African American selected as an astronaut, remembered as a pioneering figure in U.S. space history.
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E.
Daniel Stiepleman
Daniel Stiepleman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the biographical legal drama film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "On the Basis of Sex."
- 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 Post Jr. Target entity description: William Post Jr. was an American character actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his supporting roles in films and early television, including appearances in mystery and crime dramas.
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A.
George Tibbets
George Tibbets is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Tibbets, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
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B.
John C. Tibbets
John C. Tibbets is an American film historian, author, and former television broadcaster known for his work on cinema history and interviews with prominent filmmakers and actors.
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C.
Walter Tibbets
Walter Tibbets is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Tibbets.
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D.
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. was an American Air Force officer and the first African American selected as an astronaut, remembered as a pioneering figure in U.S. space history.
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E.
Daniel Stiepleman
Daniel Stiepleman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the biographical legal drama film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "On the Basis of Sex."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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mystery drama ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ |
| notableWork |
supporting roles in early television
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supporting roles in mid-20th-century films ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| workPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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 Post Jr. Description of subject: William Post Jr. was an American character actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his supporting roles in films and early television, including appearances in mystery and crime dramas.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.