John Hurt
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John Hurt was an acclaimed English actor known for his distinctive voice and powerful performances in films such as "The Elephant Man," "Alien," and "Midnight Express."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Hurt canonical | 90 |
| John Vincent Hurt | 2 |
| John Hurt received critical acclaim for portraying Max | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T382357 — 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: John Hurt Context triple: [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film), castMember, John Hurt]
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A.
Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy is an English actor known for his distinctive voice and acclaimed performances in films such as "Love Actually," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and "About Time."
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B.
Michael Caine
Michael Caine is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinctive voice and versatile performances across decades of film, including frequent roles in Christopher Nolan’s movies.
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C.
Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including notable roles in the Harry Potter series, Mike Leigh’s dramas, and various acclaimed British productions.
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D.
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon was an acclaimed Irish-English actor renowned for his powerful stage work and for portraying Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series.
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E.
Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman is an acclaimed English actor known for his intense versatility and transformative performances across films such as "Sid and Nancy," "Bram Stoker’s Dracula," "The Dark Knight" trilogy, and "Darkest Hour."
- 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: John Hurt Target entity description: John Hurt was an acclaimed English actor known for his distinctive voice and powerful performances in films such as "The Elephant Man," "Alien," and "Midnight Express."
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A.
Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy is an English actor known for his distinctive voice and acclaimed performances in films such as "Love Actually," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and "About Time."
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B.
Michael Caine
Michael Caine is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinctive voice and versatile performances across decades of film, including frequent roles in Christopher Nolan’s movies.
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C.
Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including notable roles in the Harry Potter series, Mike Leigh’s dramas, and various acclaimed British productions.
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D.
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon was an acclaimed Irish-English actor renowned for his powerful stage work and for portraying Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series.
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E.
Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman is an acclaimed English actor known for his intense versatility and transformative performances across films such as "Sid and Nancy," "Bram Stoker’s Dracula," "The Dark Knight" trilogy, and "Darkest Hour."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: John Hurt Description of subject: John Hurt was an acclaimed English actor known for his distinctive voice and powerful performances in films such as "The Elephant Man," "Alien," and "Midnight Express."
Referenced by (93)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
the War Doctor
subject linked to:
King Ralph (1991 film)
subject linked to:
Max in Midnight Express
Max (Midnight Express)
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awardAssociation
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John Hurt received critical acclaim for portraying Max
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subject linked to:
Max in Midnight Express
linked to: John Hurt
subject linked to:
"The Day of the Doctor" (2013)
subject linked to:
"The Night of the Doctor" (2013)
subject linked to:
Bruttenholm