Bill Sherman
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Bill Sherman is the charming male lead and romantic interest in the classic musical film "By the Light of the Silvery Moon."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill Sherman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10810687 — 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 Sherman Context triple: [By the Light of the Silvery Moon, mainCharacter, Bill Sherman]
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A.
Bill Sherman
Bill Sherman is a scholar of Renaissance and early modern studies who serves as director of the Warburg Institute in London.
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B.
William Sims
William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
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C.
Robert M. Sherman
Robert M. Sherman is a film producer best known for his work on the 1978 action drama "Convoy," directed by Sam Peckinpah.
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D.
Sherman Halsey
Sherman Halsey was an American music video director and producer best known for his influential work in country music, crafting iconic videos for artists like Dwight Yoakam, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill.
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E.
John Kirby Moorsom
John Kirby Moorsom was a British naval officer and author known for his service in the Royal Navy during the 19th century.
- 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 Sherman Target entity description: Bill Sherman is the charming male lead and romantic interest in the classic musical film "By the Light of the Silvery Moon."
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A.
Bill Sherman
Bill Sherman is a scholar of Renaissance and early modern studies who serves as director of the Warburg Institute in London.
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B.
William Sims
William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
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C.
Robert M. Sherman
Robert M. Sherman is a film producer best known for his work on the 1978 action drama "Convoy," directed by Sam Peckinpah.
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D.
Sherman Halsey
Sherman Halsey was an American music video director and producer best known for his influential work in country music, crafting iconic videos for artists like Dwight Yoakam, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill.
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E.
John Kirby Moorsom
John Kirby Moorsom was a British naval officer and author known for his service in the Royal Navy during the 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | By the Light of the Silvery Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Winfield family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from Booth Tarkington stories ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charming
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good-natured ⓘ romantic ⓘ |
| countryOfService | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearOfAppearance | 1953 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | On Moonlight Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
musical film
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| loveInterestOf | Marjorie Winfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
male lead
ⓘ
romantic lead ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | On Moonlight Bay film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Gordon MacRae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfAppearance | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipStatus | engaged to Marjorie Winfield (by end of film) ⓘ |
| roleInWork | By the Light of the Silvery Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticInterestOf | Marjorie Winfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation | small American town ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| subsequentAppearance | By the Light of the Silvery Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workDirectorOfAppearance | David Butler 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: Bill Sherman Description of subject: Bill Sherman is the charming male lead and romantic interest in the classic musical film "By the Light of the Silvery Moon."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.