Simon McBurney
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Simon McBurney is a British actor, writer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for founding the acclaimed theatre company Complicité.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Simon McBurney canonical | 26 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2487180 — 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: Simon McBurney Context triple: [Body of Lies, starring, Simon McBurney]
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A.
Joseph Godber
Joseph Godber was a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts in the mid-20th century, including roles in agriculture and foreign affairs.
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B.
Simon Gage
Simon Gage is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinctly associated with the surname Gage.
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C.
Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton is a British computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages, web standards, and contributions to the development of ABC and early Python influences.
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D.
Ed Byrne
Ed Byrne is an Irish stand-up comedian and actor known for his observational humor and frequent appearances on British television panel shows.
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E.
Tim Bevan
Tim Bevan is a British film producer and co-founder of Working Title Films, known for overseeing numerous acclaimed UK and international movies.
- 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: Simon McBurney Target entity description: Simon McBurney is a British actor, writer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for founding the acclaimed theatre company Complicité.
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A.
Joseph Godber
Joseph Godber was a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts in the mid-20th century, including roles in agriculture and foreign affairs.
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B.
Simon Gage
Simon Gage is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinctly associated with the surname Gage.
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C.
Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton is a British computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages, web standards, and contributions to the development of ABC and early Python influences.
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D.
Ed Byrne
Ed Byrne is an Irish stand-up comedian and actor known for his observational humor and frequent appearances on British television panel shows.
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E.
Tim Bevan
Tim Bevan is a British film producer and co-founder of Working Title Films, known for overseeing numerous acclaimed UK and international movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Simon McBurney Description of subject: Simon McBurney is a British actor, writer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for founding the acclaimed theatre company Complicité.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.