David Tennant
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David Tennant is a Scottish actor best known for playing the Tenth Doctor in "Doctor Who" and for prominent roles in series such as "Broadchurch" and "Good Omens."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Tennant canonical | 102 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T984912 — 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: David Tennant Context triple: [Fright Night (2011 film), castMember, David Tennant]
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A.
Paul McGann
Paul McGann is an English actor best known for playing the Eighth Doctor in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who and for his roles in films such as "Withnail and I."
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B.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch is an acclaimed English actor known for his roles in the television series "Sherlock" and films such as "The Imitation Game" and the Marvel Cinematic Universe's "Doctor Strange."
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C.
Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen is a Welsh actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in projects like "Frost/Nixon," "The Queen," and "Good Omens."
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D.
John Simm
John Simm is an English actor and musician best known for his roles in television series such as "Life on Mars," "Doctor Who," and "State of Play."
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E.
Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch
Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch is the eldest son of British actor Benedict Cumberbatch and theatre director Sophie Hunter.
- 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: David Tennant Target entity description: David Tennant is a Scottish actor best known for playing the Tenth Doctor in "Doctor Who" and for prominent roles in series such as "Broadchurch" and "Good Omens."
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A.
Paul McGann
Paul McGann is an English actor best known for playing the Eighth Doctor in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who and for his roles in films such as "Withnail and I."
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B.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch is an acclaimed English actor known for his roles in the television series "Sherlock" and films such as "The Imitation Game" and the Marvel Cinematic Universe's "Doctor Strange."
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C.
Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen is a Welsh actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in projects like "Frost/Nixon," "The Queen," and "Good Omens."
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D.
John Simm
John Simm is an English actor and musician best known for his roles in television series such as "Life on Mars," "Doctor Who," and "State of Play."
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E.
Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch
Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch is the eldest son of British actor Benedict Cumberbatch and theatre director Sophie Hunter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish person
ⓘ
actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BAFTA Scotland Award
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linked to:
BAFTA Scotland
National Television Award ⓘ |
| birthName | David John McDonald ⓘ |
| child | Ty Tennant ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1971-04-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
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linked to:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
|
| familyName | McDonald ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasResidence |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| knownFor |
narrating the series Twenty Twelve
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playing Alec Hardy in Broadchurch ⓘ playing Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ⓘ playing Crowley in Good Omens ⓘ playing DI Peter Carlisle in Blackpool ⓘ playing Giacomo Casanova in Casanova (2005 TV serial) ⓘ playing Kilgrave in Jessica Jones ⓘ playing the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | David Tennant ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Broadchurch
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Casanova (2005 TV serial) ⓘ
linked to:
Casanova
Doctor Who ⓘ Good Omens ⓘ Jessica Jones ⓘ
linked to:
Jessica Jones (TV series)
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| numberOfChildren | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
producer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| parent |
Alexander McDonald
ⓘ
Helen McLeod ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Alec Hardy
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Barty Crouch Jr. ⓘ Crowley ⓘ Giacomo Casanova ⓘ Kilgrave ⓘ The Doctor ⓘ |
| religion | Presbyterian background ⓘ |
| spouse | Georgia Tennant ⓘ |
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: David Tennant Description of subject: David Tennant is a Scottish actor best known for playing the Tenth Doctor in "Doctor Who" and for prominent roles in series such as "Broadchurch" and "Good Omens."
Referenced by (102)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Doctor Who episode "Blink"
subject linked to:
The Decoy Bride (2011 film)
subject linked to:
The Decoy Bride (2011 film)
subject linked to:
"The Day of the Doctor" (2013)
subject linked to:
Doctor Who episode "The Next Doctor"
subject linked to:
Doctor Who episode "The Next Doctor"
subject linked to:
Jessica Jones (TV series)