Terence Rattigan
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Terence Rattigan was a prominent 20th-century British playwright known for his finely crafted, emotionally restrained dramas such as "The Winslow Boy" and "The Browning Version."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Terence Rattigan canonical | 84 |
| Rattigan | 1 |
| Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan | 1 |
| Terence Rattigan plays | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T40249 — 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: Terence Rattigan Context triple: [Harrow School, hasAlumni, Terence Rattigan]
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Richard Bolt
Richard Bolt was an American acoustician and co-founder of the influential research and engineering firm Bolt Beranek and Newman, known for its pioneering work in acoustics and computer networking.
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Lionel Hall
Lionel Hall is an undergraduate dormitory building located within Harvard University's historic Harvard Yard.
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Rosemary Leith
Rosemary Leith is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and internet governance leader who co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation and serves on various boards related to technology and public policy.
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Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Marion MacInnis
Marion MacInnis was the wife of pioneering American electrical engineer and radio inventor Edwin H. Armstrong.
- 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: Terence Rattigan Target entity description: Terence Rattigan was a prominent 20th-century British playwright known for his finely crafted, emotionally restrained dramas such as "The Winslow Boy" and "The Browning Version."
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A.
Richard Bolt
Richard Bolt was an American acoustician and co-founder of the influential research and engineering firm Bolt Beranek and Newman, known for its pioneering work in acoustics and computer networking.
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B.
Lionel Hall
Lionel Hall is an undergraduate dormitory building located within Harvard University's historic Harvard Yard.
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C.
Rosemary Leith
Rosemary Leith is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and internet governance leader who co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation and serves on various boards related to technology and public policy.
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D.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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E.
Marion MacInnis
Marion MacInnis was the wife of pioneering American electrical engineer and radio inventor Edwin H. Armstrong.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Terence Rattigan Description of subject: Terence Rattigan was a prominent 20th-century British playwright known for his finely crafted, emotionally restrained dramas such as "The Winslow Boy" and "The Browning Version."
Referenced by (87)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Terence Rattigan
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linked to: Terence Rattigan
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The Prince and the Showgirl (1957 film)
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Let right be done.
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Let right be done.
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Sir Robert Morton is the barrister representing the Winslow family
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Arthur Winslow is the patriarch of the Winslow family
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Catherine Winslow is a suffragette and Ronnie’s sister
subject linked to:
Separate Tables and Other Plays (collections of Rattigan plays)
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Separate Tables and Other Plays (collections of Rattigan plays)
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Brighton Rock