Roger Rees
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Roger Rees was a Welsh actor and director best known for his Tony Award–winning performance in "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" and his roles in television series such as "Cheers" and "The West Wing."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roger Rees canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1200550 — 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: Roger Rees Context triple: [Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, starring, Roger Rees]
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A.
Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including notable performances in classical theatre and numerous film and television roles.
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B.
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths was a British character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Withnail & I" and as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" series.
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C.
Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in the television series "Inspector Morse" and its spin-off "Lewis."
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D.
Simon Callow
Simon Callow is a British actor, director, and writer renowned for his stage and screen work, including roles in films like "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and his acclaimed portrayals of Charles Dickens.
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E.
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.
- 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: Roger Rees Target entity description: Roger Rees was a Welsh actor and director best known for his Tony Award–winning performance in "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" and his roles in television series such as "Cheers" and "The West Wing."
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A.
Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including notable performances in classical theatre and numerous film and television roles.
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B.
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths was a British character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Withnail & I" and as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" series.
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C.
Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in the television series "Inspector Morse" and its spin-off "Lewis."
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D.
Simon Callow
Simon Callow is a British actor, director, and writer renowned for his stage and screen work, including roles in films like "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and his acclaimed portrayals of Charles Dickens.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Roger Rees Description of subject: Roger Rees was a Welsh actor and director best known for his Tony Award–winning performance in "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" and his roles in television series such as "Cheers" and "The West Wing."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.