Richard Woodley
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Richard Woodley is an author best known for co-writing the true-crime book that inspired the film "Donnie Brasco."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Woodley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4625964 — 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: Richard Woodley Context triple: [Donnie Brasco, basedOnAuthor, Richard Woodley]
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A.
Edward Saxon
Edward Saxon is an American film producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the psychological thriller "The Silence of the Lambs."
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B.
Wilfred Little
Wilfred Little was one of the children of Louise Little and a sibling of Malcolm X, belonging to the family central to the civil rights leader’s early life.
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C.
Robert Thorn
Robert Thorn is the American diplomat and adoptive father of the Antichrist child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
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D.
Simon Dunsdon
Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
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E.
Edward Ward
Edward Ward was an American film composer best known for scoring numerous Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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: Richard Woodley Target entity description: Richard Woodley is an author best known for co-writing the true-crime book that inspired the film "Donnie Brasco."
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A.
Edward Saxon
Edward Saxon is an American film producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the psychological thriller "The Silence of the Lambs."
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B.
Wilfred Little
Wilfred Little was one of the children of Louise Little and a sibling of Malcolm X, belonging to the family central to the civil rights leader’s early life.
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C.
Robert Thorn
Robert Thorn is the American diplomat and adoptive father of the Antichrist child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
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D.
Simon Dunsdon
Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
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E.
Edward Ward
Edward Ward was an American film composer best known for scoring numerous Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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book ⓘ film ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ |
| author |
Joseph D. Pistone
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Richard Woodley ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia
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linked to:
Donnie Brasco
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| coAuthorOf |
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia
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linked to:
Donnie Brasco
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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true crime ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia
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linked to:
Donnie Brasco
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| occupation | author ⓘ |
| workInspiredFilm |
Donnie Brasco (1997 film)
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linked to:
Donnie Brasco
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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: Richard Woodley Description of subject: Richard Woodley is an author best known for co-writing the true-crime book that inspired the film "Donnie Brasco."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.