William Haade
E748017
William Haade was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Haade canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8291576 — 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 Haade Context triple: [No Time for Love, castMember, William Haade]
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A.
Joseph Weishaar
Joseph Weishaar is an American architect and designer best known for winning the competition to create the National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
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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C.
William Scheves
William Scheves was a 15th-century Scottish churchman who became Archbishop of St Andrews and a prominent figure in the late medieval Scottish Church.
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D.
William Wendt
William Wendt was a prominent American landscape painter celebrated as a leading figure of the California Impressionist movement.
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E.
Thomas Pihlfeldt
Thomas Pihlfeldt was an engineer known for his role in designing and overseeing the construction of Chicago’s historic DuSable Bridge.
- 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 Haade Target entity description: William Haade was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
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A.
Joseph Weishaar
Joseph Weishaar is an American architect and designer best known for winning the competition to create the National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
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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C.
William Scheves
William Scheves was a 15th-century Scottish churchman who became Archbishop of St Andrews and a prominent figure in the late medieval Scottish Church.
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D.
William Wendt
William Wendt was a prominent American landscape painter celebrated as a leading figure of the California Impressionist movement.
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E.
Thomas Pihlfeldt
Thomas Pihlfeldt was an engineer known for his role in designing and overseeing the construction of Chicago’s historic DuSable Bridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film actor
ⓘ
character actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Key Largo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Big Sleep NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hurricane NERFINISHED ⓘ The Treasure of the Sierra Madre NERFINISHED ⓘ They Drive by Night NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1903-03-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1966-11-15 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Haade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | William NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
supporting roles in Hollywood films
ⓘ
tough-guy roles ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| typeOfRole |
heavy
ⓘ
henchman ⓘ tough guy ⓘ |
| workedIn | 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 Haade Description of subject: William Haade was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.