William Sewell
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William Sewell is the son of British actor Rufus Sewell.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Sewell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10175969 — 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 Sewell Context triple: [Rufus Sewell, hasChild, William Sewell]
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A.
William Joyce Sewell
William Joyce Sewell was a 19th-century Irish-born American Civil War general and Republican politician who served as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
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B.
John Sewell
John Sewell is a former English footballer and manager best known for his involvement in North American soccer, including coaching in the NASL.
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C.
Hugh B. Price
Hugh B. Price is an American lawyer, civil rights advocate, and former president of the National Urban League known for his leadership on issues of racial equality, education, and economic opportunity.
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D.
Edward A. Ross
Edward A. Ross was an American sociologist and progressive-era reformer known for pioneering work in social control theory and for helping establish sociology as an academic discipline in the United States.
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E.
Robert B. Bowler
Robert B. Bowler was an American public official who served as the United States Comptroller of the Treasury, overseeing federal financial accounts and fiscal administration.
- 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 Sewell Target entity description: William Sewell is the son of British actor Rufus Sewell.
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A.
William Joyce Sewell
William Joyce Sewell was a 19th-century Irish-born American Civil War general and Republican politician who served as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
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B.
John Sewell
John Sewell is a former English footballer and manager best known for his involvement in North American soccer, including coaching in the NASL.
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C.
Hugh B. Price
Hugh B. Price is an American lawyer, civil rights advocate, and former president of the National Urban League known for his leadership on issues of racial equality, education, and economic opportunity.
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D.
Edward A. Ross
Edward A. Ross was an American sociologist and progressive-era reformer known for pioneering work in social control theory and for helping establish sociology as an academic discipline in the United States.
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E.
Robert B. Bowler
Robert B. Bowler was an American public official who served as the United States Comptroller of the Treasury, overseeing federal financial accounts and fiscal administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | William Sewell ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| father | Rufus Sewell ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
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 Sewell Description of subject: William Sewell is the son of British actor Rufus Sewell.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
William Sewell