William Pierson
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William Pierson is a tough, battle-hardened U.S. Army staff sergeant and key supporting character in the World War II–themed video game Call of Duty: WWII.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Pierson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11594220 — 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 Pierson Context triple: [Call of Duty: WWII, featuresCharacter, William Pierson]
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A.
Thomas Pierson
Thomas Pierson is an American nonprofit leader best known for establishing and guiding the SETI Institute, a major center for scientific research on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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B.
William Wheeler
William Wheeler is an American screenwriter known for his work on films such as the biographical drama "Queen of Katwe."
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C.
Arthur Pierson
Arthur Pierson was an American actor and later film and television director active in the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
William Demarest
William Demarest was an American character actor best known for his roles in numerous Hollywood films and the television series "My Three Sons."
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E.
John Boies Tileston
John Boies Tileston was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell, the highest peak in Yosemite National Park.
- 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 Pierson Target entity description: William Pierson is a tough, battle-hardened U.S. Army staff sergeant and key supporting character in the World War II–themed video game Call of Duty: WWII.
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A.
Thomas Pierson
Thomas Pierson is an American nonprofit leader best known for establishing and guiding the SETI Institute, a major center for scientific research on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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B.
William Wheeler
William Wheeler is an American screenwriter known for his work on films such as the biographical drama "Queen of Katwe."
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C.
Arthur Pierson
Arthur Pierson was an American actor and later film and television director active in the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
William Demarest
William Demarest was an American character actor best known for his roles in numerous Hollywood films and the television series "My Three Sons."
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E.
John Boies Tileston
John Boies Tileston was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell, the highest peak in Yosemite National Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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video game character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Call of Duty: WWII NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
battle-hardened
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tough ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Call of Duty: WWII universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameDeveloperOfWork | Sledgehammer Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gamePublisherOfWork | Activision NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedIn | 2017 ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | video game ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | member of protagonist’s squad ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Army staff sergeant ⓘ |
| platformOfWork |
Microsoft Windows
NERFINISHED
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PlayStation 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Xbox One NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rankInFiction | Staff Sergeant ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| settingRegion | European Theater of Operations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workFranchise | Call of Duty series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workGenre | first-person shooter video game ⓘ |
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 Pierson Description of subject: William Pierson is a tough, battle-hardened U.S. Army staff sergeant and key supporting character in the World War II–themed video game Call of Duty: WWII.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.