Shepherd Henderson
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Shepherd Henderson is the romantic lead in the 1958 fantasy–romantic comedy film "Bell, Book and Candle," where he becomes the unwitting target of a modern witch’s love spell.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shepherd Henderson canonical | 5 |
| Shep Henderson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6813145 — 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: Shepherd Henderson Context triple: [Bell, Book and Candle, mainCharacter, Shepherd Henderson]
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A.
Leon Henderson
Leon Henderson was an American economist and government official who played a key role in managing wartime price controls and rationing during World War II.
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B.
Dikko Henderson
Dikko Henderson is a fictional British intelligence contact in Japan from the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice," known for assisting Bond before being abruptly assassinated.
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C.
Shepard Brooks
Shepard Brooks was a prominent 19th-century Chicago real estate developer and businessman known for commissioning landmark commercial buildings such as the Rookery Building.
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D.
Hugh Williamson
Hugh Williamson was an American Founding Father, physician, and statesman who represented North Carolina at the Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution.
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E.
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.
- 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: Shepherd Henderson Target entity description: Shepherd Henderson is the romantic lead in the 1958 fantasy–romantic comedy film "Bell, Book and Candle," where he becomes the unwitting target of a modern witch’s love spell.
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A.
Leon Henderson
Leon Henderson was an American economist and government official who played a key role in managing wartime price controls and rationing during World War II.
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B.
Dikko Henderson
Dikko Henderson is a fictional British intelligence contact in Japan from the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice," known for assisting Bond before being abruptly assassinated.
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C.
Shepard Brooks
Shepard Brooks was a prominent 19th-century Chicago real estate developer and businessman known for commissioning landmark commercial buildings such as the Rookery Building.
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D.
Hugh Williamson
Hugh Williamson was an American Founding Father, physician, and statesman who represented North Carolina at the Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Bell, Book and Candle ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
love versus magic
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romantic enchantment ⓘ witchcraft ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Bell, Book and Candle (play)
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linked to:
Bell, Book and Candle
|
| characterArc |
confronts the reality of witchcraft
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falls in love under a spell ⓘ |
| characterTrait | initially skeptical of the supernatural ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor |
Bell, Book and Candle (1958 film)
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linked to:
Bell, Book and Candle
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| filmReleaseYear | 1958 ⓘ |
| genreContext | fantasy–romantic comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| loveInterestOf | Gillian Holroyd ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protagonist’s love interest ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central male protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | publisher ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bell, Book and Candle (film series/continuity)
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linked to:
Bell, Book and Candle
|
| portrayedBy | James Stewart ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | Gillian Holroyd ⓘ |
| romanticRole | romantic lead ⓘ |
| storySetting | New York City ⓘ |
| targetOf |
love spell
ⓘ
modern witch’s magic ⓘ |
| workBasedOn | stage play adaptation ⓘ |
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: Shepherd Henderson Description of subject: Shepherd Henderson is the romantic lead in the 1958 fantasy–romantic comedy film "Bell, Book and Candle," where he becomes the unwitting target of a modern witch’s love spell.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shepherd Henderson