Shirley Henderson
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Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress known for her distinctive voice and roles in films such as the Bridget Jones series and the Harry Potter franchise.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shirley Henderson canonical | 33 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2246198 — 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: Shirley Henderson Context triple: [Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, stars, Shirley Henderson]
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A.
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock is a British actress and author renowned for her extensive work in theatre, television, and film, as well as her appearances as a television presenter and panelist.
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B.
Lesley Garrett
Lesley Garrett is an English soprano and media personality known for her operatic performances and popular classical crossover work.
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C.
Claire Bloom
Claire Bloom is an acclaimed English actress known for her distinguished stage and screen career, including prominent roles in classic films, television dramas, and Shakespearean productions.
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D.
Kathy Burke
Kathy Burke is an English actress, comedian, writer, and director known for her acclaimed work in British film and television, including her BAFTA-winning performance in "Nil by Mouth."
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E.
Joanne Whalley
Joanne Whalley is an English actress known for her film and television roles, including her prominent performance in the fantasy adventure film "Willow."
- 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: Shirley Henderson Target entity description: Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress known for her distinctive voice and roles in films such as the Bridget Jones series and the Harry Potter franchise.
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A.
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock is a British actress and author renowned for her extensive work in theatre, television, and film, as well as her appearances as a television presenter and panelist.
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B.
Lesley Garrett
Lesley Garrett is an English soprano and media personality known for her operatic performances and popular classical crossover work.
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C.
Claire Bloom
Claire Bloom is an acclaimed English actress known for her distinguished stage and screen career, including prominent roles in classic films, television dramas, and Shakespearean productions.
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D.
Kathy Burke
Kathy Burke is an English actress, comedian, writer, and director known for her acclaimed work in British film and television, including her BAFTA-winning performance in "Nil by Mouth."
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E.
Joanne Whalley
Joanne Whalley is an English actress known for her film and television roles, including her prominent performance in the fantasy adventure film "Willow."
- 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: Shirley Henderson Description of subject: Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress known for her distinctive voice and roles in films such as the Bridget Jones series and the Harry Potter franchise.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (film)
subject linked to:
2001 BBC television serial "The Way We Live Now"
subject linked to:
film "Marie Antoinette" (2006)
subject linked to:
Doctor Who: Love & Monsters