Charles Webb
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Charles Webb was an American novelist best known for writing the 1963 novel that became the basis for the iconic film "The Graduate."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Webb canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172886 — 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: Charles Webb Context triple: [The Graduate, authorOfSourceWork, Charles Webb]
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A.
William Webb
William Webb was an Australian jurist who served as the chief judge of the post–World War II Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
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B.
George Ward
George Ward was a British Conservative politician who served in senior government roles during the mid-20th century, including as Minister of Supply.
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C.
C. T. Wilkins
C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
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D.
Cecil Reed
Cecil Reed was a party in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, which for the first time held that laws discriminating on the basis of sex violated the Equal Protection Clause.
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E.
Philip Smith
Philip Smith is a member of the family of Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles.
- 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: Charles Webb Target entity description: Charles Webb was an American novelist best known for writing the 1963 novel that became the basis for the iconic film "The Graduate."
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A.
William Webb
William Webb was an Australian jurist who served as the chief judge of the post–World War II Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
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B.
George Ward
George Ward was a British Conservative politician who served in senior government roles during the mid-20th century, including as Minister of Supply.
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C.
C. T. Wilkins
C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
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D.
Cecil Reed
Cecil Reed was a party in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, which for the first time held that laws discriminating on the basis of sex violated the Equal Protection Clause.
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E.
Philip Smith
Philip Smith is a member of the family of Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelist
ⓘ
person ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Graduate ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-06-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-06-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Williams College ⓘ |
| familyName | Webb ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| inspiredAdaptation |
The Graduate
ⓘ
surface form:
The Graduate (1967 film)
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | counterculture ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
lived a minimalist lifestyle
ⓘ
often gave away royalties and possessions ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Home School
ⓘ
The Graduate ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
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surface form:
San Francisco, California, United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
Eastbourne
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastbourne, England, United Kingdom
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| residence |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse | Eve Rudd ⓘ |
| work |
Home School
ⓘ
Love, Roger ⓘ New Cardiff ⓘ The Abolitionist of Clark Gable Place ⓘ The Graduate ⓘ The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker ⓘ |
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: Charles Webb Description of subject: Charles Webb was an American novelist best known for writing the 1963 novel that became the basis for the iconic film "The Graduate."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mr. Robinson (The Graduate)