James Bolam
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James Bolam is an English actor best known for his roles in classic British television series such as "The Likely Lads" and "New Tricks."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Bolam canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5317778 — 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: James Bolam Context triple: [New Tricks, portrayedBy, James Bolam]
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A.
Colin Watkinson
Colin Watkinson is a British cinematographer best known for his visually striking work on films and television series such as The Fall and The Handmaid's Tale.
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B.
Douglas Hodge
Douglas Hodge is an English actor and director known for his acclaimed work on stage and screen, including prominent roles in both classical theatre and television comedies.
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C.
Ron Todd
Ron Todd is an American politician who served as the Kansas Insurance Commissioner before Kathleen Sebelius.
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D.
Pete Glenister
Pete Glenister is a British songwriter, guitarist, and producer known for his work with artists such as Alison Moyet and Kirsty MacColl.
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E.
Martin Clunes
Martin Clunes is an English actor and comedian best known for his lead role in the television series "Doc Martin" and his work on the sitcom "Men Behaving Badly."
- 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: James Bolam Target entity description: James Bolam is an English actor best known for his roles in classic British television series such as "The Likely Lads" and "New Tricks."
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A.
Colin Watkinson
Colin Watkinson is a British cinematographer best known for his visually striking work on films and television series such as The Fall and The Handmaid's Tale.
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B.
Douglas Hodge
Douglas Hodge is an English actor and director known for his acclaimed work on stage and screen, including prominent roles in both classical theatre and television comedies.
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C.
Ron Todd
Ron Todd is an American politician who served as the Kansas Insurance Commissioner before Kathleen Sebelius.
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D.
Pete Glenister
Pete Glenister is a British songwriter, guitarist, and producer known for his work with artists such as Alison Moyet and Kirsty MacColl.
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E.
Martin Clunes
Martin Clunes is an English actor and comedian best known for his lead role in the television series "Doc Martin" and his work on the sitcom "Men Behaving Badly."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: James Bolam Description of subject: James Bolam is an English actor best known for his roles in classic British television series such as "The Likely Lads" and "New Tricks."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.