Fiona Shaw
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Fiona Shaw is an acclaimed Irish actress and theatre director known for her powerful stage performances and memorable film roles, including appearances in the Harry Potter series and numerous prestige dramas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fiona Shaw canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2352024 — 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: Fiona Shaw Context triple: [The Black Dahlia, starring, Fiona Shaw]
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A.
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave is an acclaimed English actress known for her powerful performances in film, television, and theatre, and for being one of the most respected performers of her generation.
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B.
Shirley Henderson
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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C.
Anneke Wills
Anneke Wills is a British actress best known for playing the companion Polly in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who during the 1960s.
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D.
Tim Pigott-Smith
Tim Pigott-Smith was a British character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in works like "The Jewel in the Crown" and numerous period dramas.
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E.
Rita Tushingham
Rita Tushingham is an English actress known for her distinctive, wide-eyed look and acclaimed performances in 1960s British cinema, including key roles in films of the British New Wave.
- 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: Fiona Shaw Target entity description: Fiona Shaw is an acclaimed Irish actress and theatre director known for her powerful stage performances and memorable film roles, including appearances in the Harry Potter series and numerous prestige dramas.
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A.
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave is an acclaimed English actress known for her powerful performances in film, television, and theatre, and for being one of the most respected performers of her generation.
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B.
Shirley Henderson
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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C.
Anneke Wills
Anneke Wills is a British actress best known for playing the companion Polly in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who during the 1960s.
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D.
Tim Pigott-Smith
Tim Pigott-Smith was a British character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in works like "The Jewel in the Crown" and numerous period dramas.
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E.
Rita Tushingham
Rita Tushingham is an English actress known for her distinctive, wide-eyed look and acclaimed performances in 1960s British cinema, including key roles in films of the British New Wave.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Fiona Shaw Description of subject: Fiona Shaw is an acclaimed Irish actress and theatre director known for her powerful stage performances and memorable film roles, including appearances in the Harry Potter series and numerous prestige dramas.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.