William Shea
E195805
William Shea is an editor known for his work on the film "The Wedding March."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Shea canonical | 4 |
| Bill Shea | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201050 — 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 Shea Context triple: [The Wedding March, editedBy, William Shea]
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A.
Ron Francis
Ron Francis is a Hall of Fame former NHL center and executive who became the inaugural general manager of the Seattle Kraken.
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B.
Tony Meola
Tony Meola is a former American soccer goalkeeper best known for starring with the U.S. national team in the 1990 and 1994 World Cups and for his standout career in Major League Soccer.
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C.
Robin Yount
Robin Yount is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball shortstop and center fielder who spent his entire 20-year career with the Milwaukee Brewers and won two American League MVP awards.
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D.
Donald Wilson
Donald Wilson was a British television producer and writer best known for helping develop and launch the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who for the BBC in the early 1960s.
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E.
Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
- 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 Shea Target entity description: William Shea is an editor known for his work on the film "The Wedding March."
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A.
Ron Francis
Ron Francis is a Hall of Fame former NHL center and executive who became the inaugural general manager of the Seattle Kraken.
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B.
Tony Meola
Tony Meola is a former American soccer goalkeeper best known for starring with the U.S. national team in the 1990 and 1994 World Cups and for his standout career in Major League Soccer.
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C.
Robin Yount
Robin Yount is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball shortstop and center fielder who spent his entire 20-year career with the Milwaukee Brewers and won two American League MVP awards.
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D.
Donald Wilson
Donald Wilson was a British television producer and writer best known for helping develop and launch the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who for the BBC in the early 1960s.
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E.
Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| hasEditor | William Shea self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| knownFor | editing the film "The Wedding March" ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| role | editor of "The Wedding March" ⓘ |
| workedOn |
The Wedding March
ⓘ
surface form:
"The Wedding March"
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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 Shea Description of subject: William Shea is an editor known for his work on the film "The Wedding March."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
"The Wedding March"
this entity surface form:
Bill Shea