Sir David Jason
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Sir David Jason is a renowned English actor and comedian best known for his iconic role as Del Boy in the sitcom "Only Fools and Horses."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Jason | 5 |
| Sir David Jason canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2959662 — 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: Sir David Jason Context triple: [Mill Hill School, hasAlumnus, Sir David Jason]
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A.
Richard Briers
Richard Briers was an English actor best known for his work in British television comedies such as "The Good Life" and for his frequent collaborations with director Kenneth Branagh in both stage and film.
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B.
Hugh Bonneville
Hugh Bonneville is a British actor best known for his role as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, in the television series "Downton Abbey."
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C.
Stanley Holloway
Stanley Holloway was an English actor and comic entertainer best known for his character roles on stage and in films such as "My Fair Lady" and numerous Ealing comedies.
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D.
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths was a British character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Withnail & I" and as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" series.
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E.
Neil Cross
Neil Cross is a British novelist and screenwriter best known for creating the acclaimed crime drama television series "Luther."
- 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: Sir David Jason Target entity description: Sir David Jason is a renowned English actor and comedian best known for his iconic role as Del Boy in the sitcom "Only Fools and Horses."
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A.
Richard Briers
Richard Briers was an English actor best known for his work in British television comedies such as "The Good Life" and for his frequent collaborations with director Kenneth Branagh in both stage and film.
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B.
Hugh Bonneville
Hugh Bonneville is a British actor best known for his role as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, in the television series "Downton Abbey."
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C.
Stanley Holloway
Stanley Holloway was an English actor and comic entertainer best known for his character roles on stage and in films such as "My Fair Lady" and numerous Ealing comedies.
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D.
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths was a British character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Withnail & I" and as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" series.
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E.
Neil Cross
Neil Cross is a British novelist and screenwriter best known for creating the acclaimed crime drama television series "Luther."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
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: Sir David Jason Description of subject: Sir David Jason is a renowned English actor and comedian best known for his iconic role as Del Boy in the sitcom "Only Fools and Horses."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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The Water Babies
linked to: Sir David Jason