I, Billy Shakespeare
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"I, Billy Shakespeare" is a lesser-known work by American author and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, best known for writing the novel "The Exorcist."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| I, Billy Shakespeare canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10339842 — 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: I, Billy Shakespeare Context triple: [William Peter Blatty, wrote, I, Billy Shakespeare]
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A.
Shakespeare; or, the Poet
"Shakespeare; or, the Poet" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that examines William Shakespeare’s genius and significance as the archetypal poet, included as one of the portraits in his collection "Representative Men."
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B.
The Bard of the Boulevard
The Bard of the Boulevard is the nickname of American character actor John Carradine, renowned for his distinctive voice and prolific work in classic Hollywood films and theater.
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C.
Shakespeare Country
Shakespeare Country is a popular tourist region in Warwickshire, England, centered on Stratford-upon-Avon and surrounding areas associated with the life and works of William Shakespeare.
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D.
The Roaring Girl
The Roaring Girl is a Jacobean stage comedy, co-written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, that dramatizes the exploits of the cross-dressing London rogue Mary Frith (Moll Cutpurse).
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E.
The Jester
The Jester is a segment from Andrei Tarkovsky’s film "Andrei Rublev," focusing on a wandering fool whose performance and subsequent persecution highlight themes of artistic freedom, social cruelty, and the precarious role of the artist in medieval Russia.
- 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: I, Billy Shakespeare Target entity description: "I, Billy Shakespeare" is a lesser-known work by American author and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, best known for writing the novel "The Exorcist."
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A.
Shakespeare; or, the Poet
"Shakespeare; or, the Poet" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that examines William Shakespeare’s genius and significance as the archetypal poet, included as one of the portraits in his collection "Representative Men."
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B.
The Bard of the Boulevard
The Bard of the Boulevard is the nickname of American character actor John Carradine, renowned for his distinctive voice and prolific work in classic Hollywood films and theater.
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C.
Shakespeare Country
Shakespeare Country is a popular tourist region in Warwickshire, England, centered on Stratford-upon-Avon and surrounding areas associated with the life and works of William Shakespeare.
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D.
The Roaring Girl
The Roaring Girl is a Jacobean stage comedy, co-written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, that dramatizes the exploits of the cross-dressing London rogue Mary Frith (Moll Cutpurse).
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E.
The Jester
The Jester is a segment from Andrei Tarkovsky’s film "Andrei Rublev," focusing on a wandering fool whose performance and subsequent persecution highlight themes of artistic freedom, social cruelty, and the precarious role of the artist in medieval Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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person ⓘ |
| author |
William Peter Blatty
NERFINISHED
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William Peter Blatty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describedAs | lesser-known work by William Peter Blatty ⓘ |
| genre | fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation |
author
ⓘ
filmmaker ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Exorcist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
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: I, Billy Shakespeare Description of subject: "I, Billy Shakespeare" is a lesser-known work by American author and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, best known for writing the novel "The Exorcist."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.