Bill Williamson
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Bill Williamson is the central protagonist of the film "Stormy Weather," around whom the story’s musical and dramatic events revolve.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Williamson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10812050 — 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: Bill Williamson Context triple: [Stormy Weather, mainCharacter, Bill Williamson]
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A.
Stan Ford
Stan Ford is an alternative spelling or variant form of the name "Stanford," which is commonly associated with the prestigious Stanford University and the surname or given name Stanford.
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B.
Randolph Miller
Randolph Miller is a young American boy in Henry James's novella "Daisy Miller," known as the outspoken and precocious younger brother of the title character.
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C.
Cliff Potts
Cliff Potts is an American actor best known for his role in the 1972 science fiction film "Silent Running" and for numerous television appearances in the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Mac Wilkins
Mac Wilkins is an American discus thrower and Olympic gold medalist renowned for setting multiple world records in the 1970s.
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E.
Hank Evans
Hank Evans is a central character in the 2004 drama film "We Don't Live Here Anymore," whose troubled marriage and infidelity drive much of the story’s emotional conflict.
- 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: Bill Williamson Target entity description: Bill Williamson is the central protagonist of the film "Stormy Weather," around whom the story’s musical and dramatic events revolve.
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A.
Stan Ford
Stan Ford is an alternative spelling or variant form of the name "Stanford," which is commonly associated with the prestigious Stanford University and the surname or given name Stanford.
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B.
Randolph Miller
Randolph Miller is a young American boy in Henry James's novella "Daisy Miller," known as the outspoken and precocious younger brother of the title character.
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C.
Cliff Potts
Cliff Potts is an American actor best known for his role in the 1972 science fiction film "Silent Running" and for numerous television appearances in the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Mac Wilkins
Mac Wilkins is an American discus thrower and Olympic gold medalist renowned for setting multiple world records in the 1970s.
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E.
Hank Evans
Hank Evans is a central character in the 2004 drama film "We Don't Live Here Anymore," whose troubled marriage and infidelity drive much of the story’s emotional conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Stormy Weather NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInSetting | show business milieu ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre |
drama
ⓘ
musical ⓘ romance ⓘ |
| centralTo |
dramatic events in Stormy Weather
ⓘ
musical numbers in Stormy Weather ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fictionalUniverse | Stormy Weather (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | musical film character ⓘ |
| hasCharacterFocus | music and performance ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | African-American entertainment history (fictionalized) ⓘ |
| hasFictionalStatus | human ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Bill Williamson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | character analyses of Stormy Weather ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives story forward ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
dancer
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | black-and-white cinema ⓘ |
| primaryFocusOf | plot of Stormy Weather ⓘ |
| screenTimeImportance | major ⓘ |
| storyArcType | romantic and professional journey ⓘ |
| workType | American musical film ⓘ |
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: Bill Williamson Description of subject: Bill Williamson is the central protagonist of the film "Stormy Weather," around whom the story’s musical and dramatic events revolve.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.