William Petersen as Will Graham
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William Petersen as Will Graham is the lead portrayal of the haunted FBI profiler tracking a cannibalistic serial killer in Michael Mann’s 1986 thriller "Manhunter," adapted from Thomas Harris’s novel "Red Dragon."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Petersen as Will Graham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5692450 — 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 Petersen as Will Graham Context triple: [Manhunter (film), portraysCharacter, William Petersen as Will Graham]
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A.
Terry O'Quinn
Terry O'Quinn is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of the enigmatic John Locke on the television series "Lost."
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B.
Dr. Richard Kimble
Dr. Richard Kimble is the wrongfully accused surgeon protagonist of "The Fugitive," best known from Harrison Ford’s portrayal in the 1993 film adaptation.
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C.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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D.
Walter Skinner
Walter Skinner is a high-ranking FBI assistant director who oversees and often clashes with Agents Mulder and Scully in the science fiction television series The X-Files.
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E.
Bruce Dern as Asa Watts
Bruce Dern as Asa Watts is the actor’s memorable portrayal of the ruthless cattle thief and primary antagonist in the 1972 Western film "The Cowboys."
- 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 Petersen as Will Graham Target entity description: William Petersen as Will Graham is the lead portrayal of the haunted FBI profiler tracking a cannibalistic serial killer in Michael Mann’s 1986 thriller "Manhunter," adapted from Thomas Harris’s novel "Red Dragon."
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A.
Terry O'Quinn
Terry O'Quinn is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of the enigmatic John Locke on the television series "Lost."
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B.
Dr. Richard Kimble
Dr. Richard Kimble is the wrongfully accused surgeon protagonist of "The Fugitive," best known from Harrison Ford’s portrayal in the 1993 film adaptation.
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C.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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D.
Walter Skinner
Walter Skinner is a high-ranking FBI assistant director who oversees and often clashes with Agents Mulder and Scully in the science fiction television series The X-Files.
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E.
Bruce Dern as Asa Watts
Bruce Dern as Asa Watts is the actor’s memorable portrayal of the ruthless cattle thief and primary antagonist in the 1972 Western film "The Cowboys."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Petersen as Will Graham Description of subject: William Petersen as Will Graham is the lead portrayal of the haunted FBI profiler tracking a cannibalistic serial killer in Michael Mann’s 1986 thriller "Manhunter," adapted from Thomas Harris’s novel "Red Dragon."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.