Will Corry
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Will Corry is a screenwriter best known for his work on the cult road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Will Corry canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6292580 — 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: Will Corry Context triple: [Two-Lane Blacktop, screenwriter, Will Corry]
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A.
Gilroy Roberts
Gilroy Roberts was an American sculptor and engraver best known as the ninth Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint and for creating the obverse portrait of President John F. Kennedy on the Kennedy half dollar.
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B.
Hugh Garner
Hugh Garner was a Canadian author best known for his socially conscious novels and short stories depicting working-class life in Toronto.
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C.
J. T. Walsh
J. T. Walsh was an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in numerous films of the 1980s and 1990s.
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D.
Glen Tullman
Glen Tullman is an American healthcare technology entrepreneur and executive best known for leading and building major digital health companies, including Allscripts.
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E.
Bill Travers
Bill Travers was a British actor and wildlife conservationist best known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and for co-founding the Born Free Foundation.
- 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: Will Corry Target entity description: Will Corry is a screenwriter best known for his work on the cult road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
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A.
Gilroy Roberts
Gilroy Roberts was an American sculptor and engraver best known as the ninth Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint and for creating the obverse portrait of President John F. Kennedy on the Kennedy half dollar.
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B.
Hugh Garner
Hugh Garner was a Canadian author best known for his socially conscious novels and short stories depicting working-class life in Toronto.
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C.
J. T. Walsh
J. T. Walsh was an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in numerous films of the 1980s and 1990s.
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D.
Glen Tullman
Glen Tullman is an American healthcare technology entrepreneur and executive best known for leading and building major digital health companies, including Allscripts.
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E.
Bill Travers
Bill Travers was a British actor and wildlife conservationist best known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and for co-founding the Born Free Foundation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| cultStatus | cult film ⓘ |
| genre |
road movie
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road movie ⓘ |
| knownFor | Two-Lane Blacktop ⓘ |
| notableWork | Two-Lane Blacktop ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
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: Will Corry Description of subject: Will Corry is a screenwriter best known for his work on the cult road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.