Matthew Guinness
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Matthew Guinness is a British actor and the son of renowned Oscar-winning actor Sir Alec Guinness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthew Guinness canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6314128 — 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: Matthew Guinness Context triple: [Alec Guinness, child, Matthew Guinness]
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A.
William Durkan
William Durkan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Durkan, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not clearly established.
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B.
Gerard Kearns
Gerard Kearns is an English actor best known for his role as Ian Gallagher in the TV series "Shameless" and for appearances in films such as "Looking for Eric."
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C.
Martin Lanigan
Martin Lanigan is the husband of Irish politician and Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald.
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D.
Jack O'Shea
Jack O'Shea is an actor known for his role in the film "Hellgate."
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E.
Hugh Maguire
Hugh Maguire was an Irish chieftain and nobleman closely associated with the late 16th- and early 17th-century Gaelic resistance to English rule that culminated in the Flight of the Earls.
- 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: Matthew Guinness Target entity description: Matthew Guinness is a British actor and the son of renowned Oscar-winning actor Sir Alec Guinness.
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A.
William Durkan
William Durkan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Durkan, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not clearly established.
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B.
Gerard Kearns
Gerard Kearns is an English actor best known for his role as Ian Gallagher in the TV series "Shameless" and for appearances in films such as "Looking for Eric."
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C.
Martin Lanigan
Martin Lanigan is the husband of Irish politician and Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald.
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D.
Jack O'Shea
Jack O'Shea is an actor known for his role in the film "Hellgate."
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E.
Hugh Maguire
Hugh Maguire was an Irish chieftain and nobleman closely associated with the late 16th- and early 17th-century Gaelic resistance to English rule that culminated in the Flight of the Earls.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British actor
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human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Actor ⓘ |
| child | Matthew Guinness ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| father | Alec Guinness ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Guinness ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Matthew ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Merula Salaman ⓘ |
| name | Matthew Guinness ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember | Alec Guinness ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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actor ⓘ |
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: Matthew Guinness Description of subject: Matthew Guinness is a British actor and the son of renowned Oscar-winning actor Sir Alec Guinness.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.