William Hurt
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William Hurt was an acclaimed American actor known for his intense, introspective performances in films such as "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "Broadcast News," and "The Big Chill."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Hurt canonical | 31 |
| William Hurt as Harlan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1790709 — 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 Hurt Context triple: [Syriana, stars, William Hurt]
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A.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
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B.
Ned Beatty
Ned Beatty was an acclaimed American character actor known for his powerful supporting roles in films such as "Deliverance," "Network," and "Superman."
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C.
Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas is an acclaimed American actor and producer known for films like "Wall Street" and "Fatal Attraction," who has also been recognized for his humanitarian and peace-promoting work.
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D.
Danny Huston
Danny Huston is an American actor and director known for his character roles in films such as "The Constant Gardener," "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," and "Wonder Woman."
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E.
Richard Gere
Richard Gere is an American actor known for his leading roles in films such as "American Gigolo," "An Officer and a Gentleman," and "Pretty Woman."
- 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 Hurt Target entity description: William Hurt was an acclaimed American actor known for his intense, introspective performances in films such as "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "Broadcast News," and "The Big Chill."
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A.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
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B.
Ned Beatty
Ned Beatty was an acclaimed American character actor known for his powerful supporting roles in films such as "Deliverance," "Network," and "Superman."
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C.
Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas is an acclaimed American actor and producer known for films like "Wall Street" and "Fatal Attraction," who has also been recognized for his humanitarian and peace-promoting work.
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D.
Danny Huston
Danny Huston is an American actor and director known for his character roles in films such as "The Constant Gardener," "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," and "Wonder Woman."
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E.
Richard Gere
Richard Gere is an American actor known for his leading roles in films such as "American Gigolo," "An Officer and a Gentleman," and "Pretty Woman."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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 Hurt Description of subject: William Hurt was an acclaimed American actor known for his intense, introspective performances in films such as "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "Broadcast News," and "The Big Chill."
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William Hurt as Harlan