William Powell

E163451
American actor film actor human stage actor

William Powell was a prominent American actor best known for his sophisticated roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Thin Man" series.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
William Powell canonical 19
William David Powell 1
William Horatio Powell 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American actor ⓘ
film actor ⓘ
human ⓘ
stage actor ⓘ
activeYearsInFilm 1922–1955 ⓘ
awardReceived Academy Award nomination for Best Actor ⓘ
surface form: Academy Award for Best Actor nomination
birthName William Powell self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: William Horatio Powell
causeOfDeath heart failure ⓘ
child William Powell self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: William David Powell
countryOfCitizenship United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1892-07-29 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1984-03-05 ⓘ
educatedAt American Academy of Dramatic Arts ⓘ
eyeColor brown ⓘ
genre comedy film ⓘ
mystery film ⓘ
hairColor dark brown ⓘ
knownFor portrayal of Nick Charles in "The Thin Man" series ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
medium film ⓘ
theatre ⓘ
name William Powell self-link ⓘ
nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Actor for "Life with Father" ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Actor for "My Man Godfrey" ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Actor for "The Thin Man" ⓘ
notableWork After the Thin Man ⓘ
Another Thin Man ⓘ
Life with Father ⓘ
Mister Roberts ⓘ
My Man Godfrey ⓘ
One Way Passage ⓘ
Shadow of the Thin Man ⓘ
Song of the Thin Man ⓘ
The Great Ziegfeld ⓘ
The Thin Man ⓘ
The Thin Man Goes Home ⓘ
occupation actor ⓘ
placeOfBirth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ
surface form: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
placeOfDeath Palm Springs, California, United States ⓘ
residence Beverly Hills, California, United States ⓘ
restingPlace Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California, United States ⓘ
spouse Carole Lombard ⓘ
Diana Lewis ⓘ
Eileen Wilson ⓘ
styleOfActing sophisticated comedy ⓘ
workedWith Carole Lombard ⓘ
Clark Gable ⓘ
Myrna Loy ⓘ
Spencer Tracy ⓘ

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 Powell
Description of subject: William Powell was a prominent American actor best known for his sophisticated roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Thin Man" series.

Referenced by (23)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Powell → hasNotableBearer → William Powell ⓘ
Carole Lombard → spouse → William Powell ⓘ
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California, United States → hasNotableBurial → William Powell ⓘ
subject surface form: Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Cathedral City)
this entity surface form: William Powell Jr.
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California, United States → hasNotableBurial → William Powell ⓘ
subject surface form: Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Cathedral City)
this entity surface form: William Powell (actor)
Manhattan Melodrama → starring → William Powell ⓘ
How to Marry a Millionaire → starring → William Powell ⓘ
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. → portrayedBy → William Powell ⓘ
The Thin Man → castMember → William Powell ⓘ
Another Thin Man → starring → William Powell ⓘ
After the Thin Man → starring → William Powell ⓘ
The Thin Man Goes Home → starring → William Powell ⓘ
William Powell → name → William Powell self-link ⓘ
William Powell → birthName → William Powell self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: William Horatio Powell
William Powell → child → William Powell self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: William David Powell
The Girl Who Had Everything → starring → William Powell ⓘ
Jean Harlow → coStarredWith → William Powell ⓘ
The Baroness and the Butler → castMember → William Powell ⓘ
My Man Godfrey → starring → William Powell ⓘ
The Great Ziegfeld → stars → William Powell ⓘ
Mister Roberts → starring → William Powell ⓘ
Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California, United States → hasNotableBurial → William Powell ⓘ
Barbara Johns → spouse → William Powell ⓘ
Ted Tetzlaff → notableCollaboration → William Powell ⓘ