Nigel Hawthorne
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Nigel Hawthorne was an acclaimed English actor best known for his sophisticated stage and screen performances, including his Oscar-nominated role in "The Madness of King George."
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| Nigel Hawthorne canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2771196 — 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: Nigel Hawthorne Context triple: [Demolition Man, starring, Nigel Hawthorne]
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Hume Cronyn
Hume Cronyn was a Canadian-American actor known for his versatile character roles on stage and screen, including acclaimed performances in films like "Lifeboat" and "The Seventh Cross" and frequent collaborations with his wife, Jessica Tandy.
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William Francis Nighy
William Francis Nighy is an English actor best known for his versatile film, television, and stage performances, including roles in "Love Actually," the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, and numerous acclaimed British dramas.
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C.
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, better known as Christopher Plummer, was a Canadian actor renowned for his distinguished stage and film career, including his iconic role in "The Sound of Music."
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Conway Tearle
Conway Tearle was an American stage and silent film actor prominent in the early 20th century.
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Herbert Lawford
Herbert Lawford was a prominent 19th-century British tennis player best known for winning the Wimbledon gentlemen’s singles title in 1887 and for pioneering topspin in lawn tennis.
- 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: Nigel Hawthorne Target entity description: Nigel Hawthorne was an acclaimed English actor best known for his sophisticated stage and screen performances, including his Oscar-nominated role in "The Madness of King George."
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A.
Hume Cronyn
Hume Cronyn was a Canadian-American actor known for his versatile character roles on stage and screen, including acclaimed performances in films like "Lifeboat" and "The Seventh Cross" and frequent collaborations with his wife, Jessica Tandy.
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B.
William Francis Nighy
William Francis Nighy is an English actor best known for his versatile film, television, and stage performances, including roles in "Love Actually," the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, and numerous acclaimed British dramas.
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C.
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, better known as Christopher Plummer, was a Canadian actor renowned for his distinguished stage and film career, including his iconic role in "The Sound of Music."
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D.
Conway Tearle
Conway Tearle was an American stage and silent film actor prominent in the early 20th century.
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E.
Herbert Lawford
Herbert Lawford was a prominent 19th-century British tennis player best known for winning the Wimbledon gentlemen’s singles title in 1887 and for pioneering topspin in lawn tennis.
- 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: Nigel Hawthorne Description of subject: Nigel Hawthorne was an acclaimed English actor best known for his sophisticated stage and screen performances, including his Oscar-nominated role in "The Madness of King George."
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.