William Yetter Sr.
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William Yetter Sr. was an American film actor known for his supporting and bit roles in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Yetter Sr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8291588 — 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 Yetter Sr. Context triple: [No Time for Love, castMember, William Yetter Sr.]
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A.
George Shively
George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
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B.
George Hively
George Hively was an American film editor and screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work in Hollywood studio productions.
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C.
Joseph Flummerfelt
Joseph Flummerfelt was an acclaimed American choral conductor and educator, best known for his long association with the Westminster Choir and major orchestras and festivals around the world.
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D.
Edward Plaisted
Edward Plaisted is a British aviation industry figure best known as the founder and long-time head of Skytrax, the airline and airport review and ranking organization.
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E.
Joseph Rye
Joseph Rye is an actor best known for his role in the science fiction horror film "Alien vs. Predator."
- 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 Yetter Sr. Target entity description: William Yetter Sr. was an American film actor known for his supporting and bit roles in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema.
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A.
George Shively
George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
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B.
George Hively
George Hively was an American film editor and screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work in Hollywood studio productions.
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C.
Joseph Flummerfelt
Joseph Flummerfelt was an acclaimed American choral conductor and educator, best known for his long association with the Westminster Choir and major orchestras and festivals around the world.
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D.
Edward Plaisted
Edward Plaisted is a British aviation industry figure best known as the founder and long-time head of Skytrax, the airline and airport review and ranking organization.
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E.
Joseph Rye
Joseph Rye is an actor best known for his role in the science fiction horror film "Alien vs. Predator."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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film acting ⓘ |
| genre | silent film era acting ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bit parts in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema
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supporting roles in early 20th-century Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| 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: William Yetter Sr. Description of subject: William Yetter Sr. was an American film actor known for his supporting and bit roles in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.