William Goodrum
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William Goodrum is a composer and musician known for contributing to the soundtrack of the comedy film "Shallow Hal."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Goodrum canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9906718 — 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 Goodrum Context triple: [Shallow Hal, musicBy, William Goodrum]
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A.
Richard Hodges
Richard Hodges is the former director of the Ohio Department of Health who was a named respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges.
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B.
Henry Smith
Henry Smith was an early Texas political leader who served as the first American-born governor during the Texas Revolution.
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C.
Henry Smith
Henry Smith was a wealthy 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist whose charitable endowments helped establish institutions such as Reigate Grammar School.
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D.
William Malloy
William Malloy was the defendant whose challenge to a contempt conviction for refusing to incriminate himself led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision applying the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to the states.
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E.
Michael Foale
Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
- 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 Goodrum Target entity description: William Goodrum is a composer and musician known for contributing to the soundtrack of the comedy film "Shallow Hal."
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A.
Richard Hodges
Richard Hodges is the former director of the Ohio Department of Health who was a named respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges.
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B.
Henry Smith
Henry Smith was an early Texas political leader who served as the first American-born governor during the Texas Revolution.
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C.
Henry Smith
Henry Smith was a wealthy 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist whose charitable endowments helped establish institutions such as Reigate Grammar School.
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D.
William Malloy
William Malloy was the defendant whose challenge to a contempt conviction for refusing to incriminate himself led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision applying the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to the states.
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E.
Michael Foale
Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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musician ⓘ person ⓘ |
| contributedTo | "Shallow Hal" soundtrack ⓘ |
| genre | film music ⓘ |
| knownFor | contributing music to the comedy film "Shallow Hal" ⓘ |
| notableWork | soundtrack of the film "Shallow Hal" ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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musician ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States (inferred, not certain) ⓘ |
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 Goodrum Description of subject: William Goodrum is a composer and musician known for contributing to the soundtrack of the comedy film "Shallow Hal."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.