Michael York
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Michael York is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Cabaret," "Logan's Run," and the "Austin Powers" series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael York canonical | 27 |
| Michael York OBE | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2159832 — 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: Michael York Context triple: [Austin Powers in Goldmember, starring, Michael York]
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A.
George Norton
George Norton was a British colonial-era lawyer and educator best known for establishing Presidency College in Madras, one of India’s earliest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
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B.
David Strathairn
David Strathairn is an American character actor known for his nuanced performances in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed roles in works like "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Nomadland."
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C.
Ed Harris
Ed Harris is an American actor and filmmaker known for his intense, authoritative performances in films such as "The Truman Show," "Apollo 13," and "Pollock."
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D.
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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E.
Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce is a Welsh actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in "Brazil," the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, and "Game of Thrones."
- 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: Michael York Target entity description: Michael York is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Cabaret," "Logan's Run," and the "Austin Powers" series.
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A.
George Norton
George Norton was a British colonial-era lawyer and educator best known for establishing Presidency College in Madras, one of India’s earliest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
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B.
David Strathairn
David Strathairn is an American character actor known for his nuanced performances in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed roles in works like "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Nomadland."
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C.
Ed Harris
Ed Harris is an American actor and filmmaker known for his intense, authoritative performances in films such as "The Truman Show," "Apollo 13," and "Pollock."
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D.
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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E.
Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce is a Welsh actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in "Brazil," the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, and "Game of Thrones."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Michael York Description of subject: Michael York is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Cabaret," "Logan's Run," and the "Austin Powers" series.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers series
subject linked to:
Michael Hugh Johnson
linked to: Michael York