William Dennis Weaver
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William Dennis Weaver was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud," as well as the film "Duel."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Dennis Weaver canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9794079 — 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 Dennis Weaver Context triple: [Dennis Weaver, birthName, William Dennis Weaver]
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A.
Edward R. Rooney
Edward R. Rooney is the strict, bumbling high school principal and main adult antagonist in the 1986 film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
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B.
James Scott Rockford
James Scott Rockford is the fictional private investigator protagonist of the 1970s television series "The Rockford Files," portrayed by actor James Garner.
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C.
William Todd
William Todd was the designer of the original Bear Flag that became the basis for the modern state flag of California.
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D.
Richard Allen York
Richard Allen York was an American actor best known for originating the role of Darrin Stephens on the classic television sitcom "Bewitched."
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E.
Joe Foster
Joe Foster is a British entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the global sportswear brand Reebok.
- 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 Dennis Weaver Target entity description: William Dennis Weaver was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud," as well as the film "Duel."
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A.
Edward R. Rooney
Edward R. Rooney is the strict, bumbling high school principal and main adult antagonist in the 1986 film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
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B.
James Scott Rockford
James Scott Rockford is the fictional private investigator protagonist of the 1970s television series "The Rockford Files," portrayed by actor James Garner.
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C.
William Todd
William Todd was the designer of the original Bear Flag that became the basis for the modern state flag of California.
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D.
Richard Allen York
Richard Allen York was an American actor best known for originating the role of Darrin Stephens on the classic television sitcom "Bewitched."
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E.
Joe Foster
Joe Foster is a British entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the global sportswear brand Reebok.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Dennis Weaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedForWork | Gunsmoke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from cancer ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Chester Goode in Gunsmoke
NERFINISHED
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David Mann in Duel NERFINISHED ⓘ Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud in McCloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1924-06-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-02-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Joplin Junior College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
CBS
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Weaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Dennis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| movement | environmentalism ⓘ |
| name | William Dennis Weaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Duel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Earthship home in Ridgway, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Emerald Point N.A.S. NERFINISHED ⓘ Gentle Ben NERFINISHED ⓘ Gunsmoke NERFINISHED ⓘ McCloud NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gallant Hours NERFINISHED ⓘ The Return of Sam McCloud NERFINISHED ⓘ Touch of Evil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Joplin, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Ridgway, Colorado, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | decathlete ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
Ridgway, Colorado, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | track and field ⓘ |
| spouse | Gerry Stowell 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: William Dennis Weaver Description of subject: William Dennis Weaver was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud," as well as the film "Duel."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.