William DeWolf Hopper Jr.
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William DeWolf Hopper Jr., known professionally as William Hopper, was an American actor best remembered for his role as private investigator Paul Drake on the television series "Perry Mason."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William DeWolf Hopper Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9217322 — 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 DeWolf Hopper Jr. Context triple: [William Hopper, birthName, William DeWolf Hopper Jr.]
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A.
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer
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B.
Skip Woods
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C.
Captain Frank Furillo
Captain Frank Furillo is the dedicated, level-headed precinct commander at the heart of the 1980s police drama "Hill Street Blues," known for balancing gritty street crime with complex personal and political pressures.
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D.
Harry C. Baker
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E.
Russell Vought
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William DeWolf Hopper Jr. Target entity description: William DeWolf Hopper Jr., known professionally as William Hopper, was an American actor best remembered for his role as private investigator Paul Drake on the television series "Perry Mason."
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A.
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer is a gruff but loyal San Francisco police captain who serves as Adrian Monk’s long-suffering boss and friend in the television series "Monk."
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B.
Skip Woods
Skip Woods is an American screenwriter and film producer known for writing action films such as "Swordfish," "Hitman," and "A Good Day to Die Hard."
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C.
Captain Frank Furillo
Captain Frank Furillo is the dedicated, level-headed precinct commander at the heart of the 1980s police drama "Hill Street Blues," known for balancing gritty street crime with complex personal and political pressures.
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D.
Harry C. Baker
Harry C. Baker was an early 20th-century American roller coaster designer and builder known for creating classic wooden coasters such as the Dragon Coaster.
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E.
Russell Vought
Russell Vought is an American political operative and policy advisor who served as Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | William Hopper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1915-01-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1970-03-06 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| father | DeWolf Hopper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | television ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| mother | Hedda Hopper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | William DeWolf Hopper Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember |
DeWolf Hopper
NERFINISHED
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Hedda Hopper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Perry Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Perry Mason ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Palm Springs, California NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| role | Paul Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jane Gilbert
NERFINISHED
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Janet Hopper NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeanette Juanita Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ |
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 DeWolf Hopper Jr. Description of subject: William DeWolf Hopper Jr., known professionally as William Hopper, was an American actor best remembered for his role as private investigator Paul Drake on the television series "Perry Mason."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.