William Harrison
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William Harrison was an American writer and screenwriter best known for penning the short story and screenplay that inspired the 1975 science fiction film "Rollerball."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Harrison canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2459458 — 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 Harrison Context triple: [Rollerball, screenwriter, William Harrison]
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A.
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States and a military leader known for his frontier campaigns and brief, 31-day presidency.
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B.
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States and a career military officer celebrated as a hero of the Mexican–American War.
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C.
John Tyler
John Tyler was the 10th president of the United States, known for succeeding William Henry Harrison after his death and for his firm stance on states’ rights.
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D.
Jim Polk
Jim Polk is an American writer and former spouse of acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
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E.
Zachary Taylor Davis
Zachary Taylor Davis was an American architect best known for designing iconic early 20th-century baseball parks, including Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
- 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 Harrison Target entity description: William Harrison was an American writer and screenwriter best known for penning the short story and screenplay that inspired the 1975 science fiction film "Rollerball."
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A.
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States and a military leader known for his frontier campaigns and brief, 31-day presidency.
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B.
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States and a career military officer celebrated as a hero of the Mexican–American War.
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C.
John Tyler
John Tyler was the 10th president of the United States, known for succeeding William Henry Harrison after his death and for his firm stance on states’ rights.
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D.
Jim Polk
Jim Polk is an American writer and former spouse of acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
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E.
Zachary Taylor Davis
Zachary Taylor Davis was an American architect best known for designing iconic early 20th-century baseball parks, including Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| author | William Harrison self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
writing the screenplay for the film Rollerball
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writing the short story that inspired the film Rollerball ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Roller Ball Murder
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Rollerball ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | William Harrison self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| wrote | Roller Ball Murder ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor | Rollerball ⓘ |
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 Harrison Description of subject: William Harrison was an American writer and screenwriter best known for penning the short story and screenplay that inspired the 1975 science fiction film "Rollerball."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Roller Ball Murder
subject surface form:
Rollerball