Rodney Williams
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Rodney Williams is the reserved, aging civil servant at the heart of the 2022 film "Living," whose quiet life is upended when he confronts his mortality and searches for meaning.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rodney Williams canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8156219 — 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: Rodney Williams Context triple: [Living (2022 film), protagonist, Rodney Williams]
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A.
Rodney Williams
Rodney Williams is an Antiguan politician and medical doctor who has served as the Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.
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B.
Len Williams
Len Williams was a British classical guitar teacher and promoter best known as the father and early mentor of renowned guitarist John Williams.
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C.
Rodney Barnes
Rodney Barnes is an American television writer and producer known for his work on series such as "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty" and "The Boondocks."
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D.
Mike Williams
Mike Williams is a Swedish computer scientist best known as one of the creators of the Erlang programming language.
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E.
Mike Williams
Mike Williams is the real-life chief electronics technician whose experiences during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster were dramatized in the film "Deepwater Horizon."
- 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: Rodney Williams Target entity description: Rodney Williams is the reserved, aging civil servant at the heart of the 2022 film "Living," whose quiet life is upended when he confronts his mortality and searches for meaning.
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A.
Rodney Williams
Rodney Williams is an Antiguan politician and medical doctor who has served as the Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.
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B.
Len Williams
Len Williams was a British classical guitar teacher and promoter best known as the father and early mentor of renowned guitarist John Williams.
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C.
Rodney Barnes
Rodney Barnes is an American television writer and producer known for his work on series such as "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty" and "The Boondocks."
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D.
Mike Williams
Mike Williams is a Swedish computer scientist best known as one of the creators of the Erlang programming language.
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E.
Mike Williams
Mike Williams is the real-life chief electronics technician whose experiences during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster were dramatized in the film "Deepwater Horizon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Living ⓘ |
| basedOn | Kanji Watanabe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterOrigin | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directorOfWorkAppearedIn | Oliver Hermanus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | London County Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2022 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 2022 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreContext | drama film ⓘ |
| inspiredByWork | Ikiru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| keyPlotElement |
campaign to build a children’s playground
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terminal illness diagnosis ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| lifeStage | aging ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | civil servant ⓘ |
| personalityTrait | reserved ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bill Nighy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriterOfWorkAppearedIn | Kazuo Ishiguro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1950s ⓘ |
| settingPlace | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyArc | transformation after terminal diagnosis ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
confrontation with mortality
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search for meaning in life ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| worksIn | Public Works department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Rodney Williams Description of subject: Rodney Williams is the reserved, aging civil servant at the heart of the 2022 film "Living," whose quiet life is upended when he confronts his mortality and searches for meaning.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.