Walter Findlay|Bill Macy
E161509
Bill Macy was an American actor best known for his role as Walter Findlay, the husband of the title character on the 1970s television sitcom "Maude."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Findlay|Bill Macy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1408819 — 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: Walter Findlay|Bill Macy Context triple: [Maude, characterPortrayedBy, Walter Findlay|Bill Macy]
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A.
Gavin MacLeod
Gavin MacLeod was an American actor best known for his roles as Captain Merrill Stubing on the television series "The Love Boat" and Murray Slaughter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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B.
Bill Durnan
Bill Durnan was a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1940s, renowned for his ambidextrous catching ability and dominance in the early NHL.
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C.
Donald Faison
Donald Faison is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Dr. Christopher Turk on the television series "Scrubs."
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D.
David Hyde Pierce
David Hyde Pierce is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Dr. Niles Crane on the television sitcom "Frasier."
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E.
Hugh Frayne
Hugh Frayne was an American labor leader and union official who played a significant role in coordinating labor relations and production during World War I.
- 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: Walter Findlay|Bill Macy Target entity description: Bill Macy was an American actor best known for his role as Walter Findlay, the husband of the title character on the 1970s television sitcom "Maude."
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A.
Gavin MacLeod
Gavin MacLeod was an American actor best known for his roles as Captain Merrill Stubing on the television series "The Love Boat" and Murray Slaughter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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B.
Bill Durnan
Bill Durnan was a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1940s, renowned for his ambidextrous catching ability and dominance in the early NHL.
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C.
Donald Faison
Donald Faison is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Dr. Christopher Turk on the television series "Scrubs."
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D.
David Hyde Pierce
David Hyde Pierce is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Dr. Niles Crane on the television sitcom "Frasier."
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E.
Hugh Frayne
Hugh Frayne was an American labor leader and union official who played a significant role in coordinating labor relations and production during World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Walter Findlay|Bill Macy Description of subject: Bill Macy was an American actor best known for his role as Walter Findlay, the husband of the title character on the 1970s television sitcom "Maude."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.