William Osborne
E235559
William Osborne is a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1992 action-comedy film "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Osborne canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1200541 — 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 Osborne Context triple: [Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, screenwriter, William Osborne]
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A.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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B.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an American land developer and judge best known as the founder of Cooperstown, New York, and the patriarch of the Cooper family that included novelist James Fenimore Cooper.
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C.
Oscar Furlong
Oscar Furlong was an Argentine basketball player renowned as one of the sport’s early international stars, particularly for leading Argentina to prominence in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Edward Norris
Edward Norris was an American film and television actor active primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his supporting roles in Hollywood dramas and crime films.
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E.
Philip Woodruff
Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
- 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 Osborne Target entity description: William Osborne is a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1992 action-comedy film "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot."
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A.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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B.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an American land developer and judge best known as the founder of Cooperstown, New York, and the patriarch of the Cooper family that included novelist James Fenimore Cooper.
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C.
Oscar Furlong
Oscar Furlong was an Argentine basketball player renowned as one of the sport’s early international stars, particularly for leading Argentina to prominence in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Edward Norris
Edward Norris was an American film and television actor active primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his supporting roles in Hollywood dramas and crime films.
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E.
Philip Woodruff
Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coWrote | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot ⓘ |
| genre | action comedy film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1992 ⓘ |
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 Osborne Description of subject: William Osborne is a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1992 action-comedy film "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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