Sheldon Willis
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Sheldon Willis is an alias used by the fictional con artist and thief Linus Caldwell in the Ocean's film series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sheldon Willis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8498631 — 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: Sheldon Willis Context triple: [Linus Caldwell, hasAlias, Sheldon Willis]
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A.
Ralph Sheldon
Ralph Sheldon is a film editor known for his work on the 1967 British comedy-drama "Charlie Bubbles."
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B.
Kevin Willard
Kevin Willard is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Maryland men's basketball program after a successful tenure at Seton Hall.
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C.
Willis Jackson
Willis Jackson is a central character on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," portrayed as the streetwise older brother who, along with his younger sibling Arnold, is adopted by wealthy widower Philip Drummond.
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D.
James Waddell
James Waddell was a Confederate naval officer best known for commanding the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah during the American Civil War.
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E.
Len Williams
Len Williams was a British classical guitar teacher and promoter best known as the father and early mentor of renowned guitarist John Williams.
- 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: Sheldon Willis Target entity description: Sheldon Willis is an alias used by the fictional con artist and thief Linus Caldwell in the Ocean's film series.
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A.
Ralph Sheldon
Ralph Sheldon is a film editor known for his work on the 1967 British comedy-drama "Charlie Bubbles."
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B.
Kevin Willard
Kevin Willard is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Maryland men's basketball program after a successful tenure at Seton Hall.
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C.
Willis Jackson
Willis Jackson is a central character on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," portrayed as the streetwise older brother who, along with his younger sibling Arnold, is adopted by wealthy widower Philip Drummond.
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D.
James Waddell
James Waddell was a Confederate naval officer best known for commanding the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah during the American Civil War.
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E.
Len Williams
Len Williams was a British classical guitar teacher and promoter best known as the father and early mentor of renowned guitarist John Williams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
fictional character alias ⓘ |
| aliasOf | Linus Caldwell ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ocean's film series ⓘ |
| featuresAlias | Sheldon Willis ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Ocean's Eleven franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Ocean's Eleven
|
| medium | film ⓘ |
| usedByCharacter | Linus Caldwell ⓘ |
| usedFor |
con artistry
ⓘ
theft ⓘ |
| usesAlias | Sheldon Willis ⓘ |
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: Sheldon Willis Description of subject: Sheldon Willis is an alias used by the fictional con artist and thief Linus Caldwell in the Ocean's film series.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.