Bill Houston – David Morse
E800090
Bill Houston is a key supporting character in the musical drama film "Dancer in the Dark," portrayed by actor David Morse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill Houston – David Morse canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9428558 — 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: Bill Houston – David Morse Context triple: [Dancer in the Dark, characterPortrayedBy, Bill Houston – David Morse]
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A.
Bill Longley in The Texan
Bill Longley in *The Texan* is the fictional gunfighter protagonist of the late-1950s Western television series portrayed by actor Rory Calhoun.
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B.
Michael Houston
Michael Houston is a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston family, known for its historical and social significance.
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C.
Michael Houston
Michael Houston is the son of renowned gospel and soul singer Cissy Houston and the brother of legendary pop icon Whitney Houston.
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D.
Donald Houston
Donald Houston was a Welsh actor known for his roles in British films such as "The Blue Lagoon," "The Longest Day," and "Where Eagles Dare."
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E.
Bill Paxton as Dale "Hurricane" Dixon
Bill Paxton as Dale "Hurricane" Dixon is a small-town Arkansas police chief whose mix of eager ambition, moral conflict, and vulnerability makes him the emotional center of the crime thriller One False Move.
- 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: Bill Houston – David Morse Target entity description: Bill Houston is a key supporting character in the musical drama film "Dancer in the Dark," portrayed by actor David Morse.
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A.
Bill Longley in The Texan
Bill Longley in *The Texan* is the fictional gunfighter protagonist of the late-1950s Western television series portrayed by actor Rory Calhoun.
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B.
Michael Houston
Michael Houston is a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston family, known for its historical and social significance.
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C.
Michael Houston
Michael Houston is the son of renowned gospel and soul singer Cissy Houston and the brother of legendary pop icon Whitney Houston.
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D.
Donald Houston
Donald Houston was a Welsh actor known for his roles in British films such as "The Blue Lagoon," "The Longest Day," and "Where Eagles Dare."
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E.
Bill Paxton as Dale "Hurricane" Dixon
Bill Paxton as Dale "Hurricane" Dixon is a small-town Arkansas police chief whose mix of eager ambition, moral conflict, and vulnerability makes him the emotional center of the crime thriller One False Move.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film ⓘ film character ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Dancer in the Dark ⓘ |
| genre | musical drama film ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | musical drama film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | David Morse ⓘ |
| portrays | Bill Houston ⓘ |
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: Bill Houston – David Morse Description of subject: Bill Houston is a key supporting character in the musical drama film "Dancer in the Dark," portrayed by actor David Morse.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.