Strathairn
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Strathairn is the surname of American actor David Strathairn, known for his work in film, television, and theater.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Strathairn canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6804706 — 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: Strathairn Context triple: [David Strathairn, familyName, Strathairn]
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A.
Fergus
Fergus is a historic small town in southwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its Scottish heritage and annual Scottish Festival and Highland Games.
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B.
Fergus
Fergus is a fictional character from the game "Wild Target," likely serving as a notable figure within its story or gameplay.
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C.
Fergus
Fergus is the conflicted Irish Republican Army volunteer who serves as the central protagonist in the 1992 psychological thriller film "The Crying Game."
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D.
Dugald
Dugald is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, historically associated with figures such as the philosopher Dugald Stewart.
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E.
Cuilén of Scotland
Cuilén of Scotland was a 10th-century King of Alba from the House of Alpin, whose short and turbulent reign ended with his death in battle around 971.
- 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: Strathairn Target entity description: Strathairn is the surname of American actor David Strathairn, known for his work in film, television, and theater.
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A.
Fergus
Fergus is a historic small town in southwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its Scottish heritage and annual Scottish Festival and Highland Games.
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B.
Fergus
Fergus is a fictional character from the game "Wild Target," likely serving as a notable figure within its story or gameplay.
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C.
Fergus
Fergus is the conflicted Irish Republican Army volunteer who serves as the central protagonist in the 1992 psychological thriller film "The Crying Game."
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D.
Dugald
Dugald is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, historically associated with figures such as the philosopher Dugald Stewart.
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E.
Cuilén of Scotland
Cuilén of Scotland was a 10th-century King of Alba from the House of Alpin, whose short and turbulent reign ended with his death in battle around 971.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Strathairn ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
work in film
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work in television ⓘ work in theater ⓘ |
| occupation |
film actor
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stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| usedBy | David Strathairn ⓘ |
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: Strathairn Description of subject: Strathairn is the surname of American actor David Strathairn, known for his work in film, television, and theater.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.