Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale
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Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale, is a British former civil servant who served as Director General of the UK Security Service (MI5) from 2007 to 2013.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lord Evans of Weardale | 2 |
| Jonathan Evans (politician) | 1 |
| Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1641601 — 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: Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale Context triple: [University of Bristol, hasNotableAlumni, Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale]
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A.
Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise
Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise is a British businessman and Conservative life peer best known for his leadership role at the retail company Next plc.
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B.
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe is a British judge and law lord who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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C.
Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead
Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead is a prominent British jurist who served as a Law Lord in the House of Lords and later as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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D.
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers is a prominent British jurist who served as the first President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and previously as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
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E.
Lord Browne of Madingley
Lord Browne of Madingley is a British businessman and former chief executive of BP, noted for his influential role in the global energy industry and public service in engineering and education.
- 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: Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale Target entity description: Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale, is a British former civil servant who served as Director General of the UK Security Service (MI5) from 2007 to 2013.
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A.
Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise
Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise is a British businessman and Conservative life peer best known for his leadership role at the retail company Next plc.
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B.
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe is a British judge and law lord who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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C.
Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead
Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead is a prominent British jurist who served as a Law Lord in the House of Lords and later as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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D.
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers is a prominent British jurist who served as the first President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and previously as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
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E.
Lord Browne of Madingley
Lord Browne of Madingley is a British businessman and former chief executive of BP, noted for his influential role in the global energy industry and public service in engineering and education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British life peer
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former civil servant ⓘ human ⓘ intelligence agency director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer |
MI5
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linked to:
Security Service (MI5)
Security Service ⓘ |
| endTime | 2013 (as Director General of the Security Service) ⓘ |
| familyName | Evans ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
intelligence
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national security ⓘ |
| givenName | Jonathan ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Baron Evans of Weardale ⓘ |
| knownFor |
role in UK counter-terrorism policy
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serving as Director General of MI5 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Lords ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Baron Evans of Weardale ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of MI5 during the late 2000s and early 2010s ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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intelligence officer ⓘ |
| partOf |
British intelligence community
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linked to:
British intelligence
|
| positionHeld |
Director General of the Security Service
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member of the House of Lords ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| securityClearance | highest level UK national security clearance ⓘ |
| startTime | 2007 (as Director General of the Security Service) ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale Description of subject: Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale, is a British former civil servant who served as Director General of the UK Security Service (MI5) from 2007 to 2013.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale
linked to: Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale
linked to: Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale