Bill Shirley
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Bill Shirley was an American actor and singer best known for providing the speaking and singing voice of Prince Phillip in Disney’s animated film "Sleeping Beauty."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Shirley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3249118 — 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: Bill Shirley Context triple: [Sleeping Beauty, voiceActorForPrincePhillip, Bill Shirley]
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A.
Cliff Unger
Cliff Unger is a central character in the video game "Death Stranding," portrayed as a tragic former soldier whose emotional connection to his child drives much of the game's narrative.
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B.
Joe E. Brown
Joe E. Brown was a popular American comedian and film actor of the 1930s and 1940s, known for his wide-mouthed grin and roles in numerous Hollywood comedies.
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C.
Eddie Spears
Eddie Spears is a Native American actor known for his roles in film and television, particularly in Western and Indigenous-themed productions.
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D.
Jack Shea
Jack Shea was an American speed skater who became a double gold medalist at the 1932 Winter Olympics and one of the early stars of U.S. winter sports.
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E.
Curt Miller
Curt Miller is an American basketball coach best known for leading the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun to multiple playoff runs and earning Coach of the Year honors.
- 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: Bill Shirley Target entity description: Bill Shirley was an American actor and singer best known for providing the speaking and singing voice of Prince Phillip in Disney’s animated film "Sleeping Beauty."
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A.
Cliff Unger
Cliff Unger is a central character in the video game "Death Stranding," portrayed as a tragic former soldier whose emotional connection to his child drives much of the game's narrative.
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B.
Joe E. Brown
Joe E. Brown was a popular American comedian and film actor of the 1930s and 1940s, known for his wide-mouthed grin and roles in numerous Hollywood comedies.
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C.
Eddie Spears
Eddie Spears is a Native American actor known for his roles in film and television, particularly in Western and Indigenous-themed productions.
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D.
Jack Shea
Jack Shea was an American speed skater who became a double gold medalist at the 1932 Winter Olympics and one of the early stars of U.S. winter sports.
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E.
Curt Miller
Curt Miller is an American basketball coach best known for leading the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun to multiple playoff runs and earning Coach of the Year honors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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human ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Disney animated features
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surface form:
Disney animated films
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| genre |
film
ⓘ
musical performance ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
ⓘ
music industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance |
singing
ⓘ
voice acting ⓘ |
| notableFor |
providing the singing voice of Prince Phillip in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty
ⓘ
providing the speaking voice of Prince Phillip in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Sleeping Beauty
ⓘ
voice performance as Prince Phillip ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Sleeping Beauty ⓘ |
| performedIn | Sleeping Beauty ⓘ |
| voiceRole | Prince Phillip ⓘ |
| voiceType | tenor ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Bill Shirley Description of subject: Bill Shirley was an American actor and singer best known for providing the speaking and singing voice of Prince Phillip in Disney’s animated film "Sleeping Beauty."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.