Alec McCowen
E282034
Alec McCowen was an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and notable film roles in productions such as "Henry V" (1989) and "Frenzy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alec McCowen canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2352227 — 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: Alec McCowen Context triple: [Henry V (1989 film), starring, Alec McCowen]
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A.
Ian Hanmore
Ian Hanmore is a Scottish character actor known for his work in British film and television, including roles in series like Game of Thrones and Doctor Who.
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B.
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming is a Scottish actor, writer, and director known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like "The Good Wife," "Cabaret," and various Hollywood films.
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C.
Peter Macon
Peter Macon is an American actor best known for playing the Moclan officer Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on the science fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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D.
David Bamber
David Bamber is an English actor known for his character roles in British television and film, including his portrayal of Mr. Collins in the 1995 adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
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E.
Holt McCallany
Holt McCallany is an American actor best known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, including a prominent turn as FBI agent Bill Tench in the series "Mindhunter."
- 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: Alec McCowen Target entity description: Alec McCowen was an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and notable film roles in productions such as "Henry V" (1989) and "Frenzy."
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A.
Ian Hanmore
Ian Hanmore is a Scottish character actor known for his work in British film and television, including roles in series like Game of Thrones and Doctor Who.
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B.
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming is a Scottish actor, writer, and director known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like "The Good Wife," "Cabaret," and various Hollywood films.
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C.
Peter Macon
Peter Macon is an American actor best known for playing the Moclan officer Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on the science fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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D.
David Bamber
David Bamber is an English actor known for his character roles in British television and film, including his portrayal of Mr. Collins in the 1995 adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
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E.
Holt McCallany
Holt McCallany is an American actor best known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, including a prominent turn as FBI agent Bill Tench in the series "Mindhunter."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Alec McCowen Description of subject: Alec McCowen was an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and notable film roles in productions such as "Henry V" (1989) and "Frenzy."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.