Iain Glen
E120899
Iain Glen is a Scottish actor best known internationally for his role as Ser Jorah Mormont in the television series "Game of Thrones."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Iain Glen canonical | 25 |
| Iain Glen as Manfred Powell | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T850411 — 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: Iain Glen Context triple: [University of Aberdeen, hasNotableAlumni, Iain Glen]
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A.
Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
Toby Jones
Toby Jones is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects such as "Infamous," the "Harry Potter" series, and "The Hunger Games."
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C.
Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds is an Irish actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, with notable roles in works such as "Rome," "There Will Be Blood," and "Game of Thrones."
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D.
Michael Gough
Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
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E.
Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill is an English actor best known for his roles as King Théoden in "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy and Captain Edward Smith in "Titanic."
- 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: Iain Glen Target entity description: Iain Glen is a Scottish actor best known internationally for his role as Ser Jorah Mormont in the television series "Game of Thrones."
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A.
Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
Toby Jones
Toby Jones is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects such as "Infamous," the "Harry Potter" series, and "The Hunger Games."
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C.
Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds is an Irish actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, with notable roles in works such as "Rome," "There Will Be Blood," and "Game of Thrones."
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D.
Michael Gough
Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
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E.
Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill is an English actor best known for his roles as King Théoden in "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy and Captain Edward Smith in "Titanic."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Iain Glen Description of subject: Iain Glen is a Scottish actor best known internationally for his role as Ser Jorah Mormont in the television series "Game of Thrones."
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Doctor Who episode "The Time of Angels"
subject linked to:
Doctor Who episode "Flesh and Stone"
linked to: Iain Glen