Patrick Macnee
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Patrick Macnee was a British actor best known for his role as the suave secret agent John Steed in the television series "The Avengers."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick Macnee canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3859884 — 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: Patrick Macnee Context triple: [A View to a Kill, castMember, Patrick Macnee]
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A.
Patrick McGoohan
Patrick McGoohan was an Irish-American actor and director best known for his intense, enigmatic performances in film and television, particularly in the cult TV series "The Prisoner."
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B.
Harry Palmer
Harry Palmer is the central protagonist of the musical film "For Me and My Gal," around whom the story’s romantic and dramatic events revolve.
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C.
Roland Caulder
Roland Caulder is an actor known for his role in the film "The Iron Mask."
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D.
John Anderton
John Anderton is the troubled chief of a futuristic "Precrime" police unit who becomes a fugitive after being accused of a murder he has yet to commit in the science fiction story Minority Report.
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E.
Charles Tennant
Charles Tennant was a Scottish industrialist and chemist best known for founding a major chemical manufacturing business and pioneering the use of bleaching powder in textile production.
- 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: Patrick Macnee Target entity description: Patrick Macnee was a British actor best known for his role as the suave secret agent John Steed in the television series "The Avengers."
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A.
Patrick McGoohan
Patrick McGoohan was an Irish-American actor and director best known for his intense, enigmatic performances in film and television, particularly in the cult TV series "The Prisoner."
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B.
Harry Palmer
Harry Palmer is the central protagonist of the musical film "For Me and My Gal," around whom the story’s romantic and dramatic events revolve.
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C.
Roland Caulder
Roland Caulder is an actor known for his role in the film "The Iron Mask."
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D.
John Anderton
John Anderton is the troubled chief of a futuristic "Precrime" police unit who becomes a fugitive after being accused of a murder he has yet to commit in the science fiction story Minority Report.
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E.
Charles Tennant
Charles Tennant was a Scottish industrialist and chemist best known for founding a major chemical manufacturing business and pioneering the use of bleaching powder in textile production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Patrick Macnee Description of subject: Patrick Macnee was a British actor best known for his role as the suave secret agent John Steed in the television series "The Avengers."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.