Roy Bland
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Roy Bland is a fictional British intelligence officer and double agent in John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, notably featured as one of the suspected moles in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roy Bland canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10397017 — 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: Roy Bland Context triple: [Circus, hasMember, Roy Bland]
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A.
George Burdon
George Burdon was a British naval officer known for commanding forces that opposed the American privateer John Paul Jones during the 1778 Battle off Carrickfergus in the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
Roy Grounds
Roy Grounds was a prominent Australian modernist architect best known for designing landmark buildings such as the Australian Academy of Science’s iconic Shine Dome in Canberra.
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C.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
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D.
Gordon Heath
Gordon Heath was an American actor, singer, and director known for his work on stage and in film, as well as for his influential career in Europe, particularly in France.
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E.
Roy Budd
Roy Budd was a British jazz pianist and film composer best known for his iconic scores to movies such as "Get Carter" and other 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
- 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: Roy Bland Target entity description: Roy Bland is a fictional British intelligence officer and double agent in John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, notably featured as one of the suspected moles in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
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A.
George Burdon
George Burdon was a British naval officer known for commanding forces that opposed the American privateer John Paul Jones during the 1778 Battle off Carrickfergus in the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
Roy Grounds
Roy Grounds was a prominent Australian modernist architect best known for designing landmark buildings such as the Australian Academy of Science’s iconic Shine Dome in Canberra.
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C.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
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D.
Gordon Heath
Gordon Heath was an American actor, singer, and director known for his work on stage and in film, as well as for his influential career in Europe, particularly in France.
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E.
Roy Budd
Roy Budd was a British jazz pianist and film composer best known for his iconic scores to movies such as "Get Carter" and other 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ spy character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
British intelligence
ⓘ
the Circus ⓘ |
| antagonistTo | George Smiley ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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linked to:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel)
|
| appearsInAdaptation |
1979 BBC television adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
ⓘ
2011 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | George Smiley series ⓘ |
| basedIn |
London (fictional workplace)
ⓘ
linked to:
London (traction city)
|
| colleagueOf |
Bill Haydon
ⓘ
Control ⓘ George Smiley ⓘ Percy Alleline ⓘ Toby Esterhase ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | John le Carré ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hiddenLoyalty | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | spy fiction ⓘ |
| loyalty | ostensibly to the Circus ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
intelligence officer
ⓘ
spy ⓘ |
| partOf | the group of four senior Circus officers suspected as moles ⓘ |
| role |
double agent
ⓘ
suspected mole ⓘ |
| secretlyWorksFor |
Karla
ⓘ
Soviet intelligence ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet intelligence community
|
| setting | Cold War ⓘ |
| suspectedBy |
George Smiley
ⓘ
Mendel ⓘ Peter Guillam ⓘ |
| worksFor | British Secret Intelligence Service (fictionalized as the Circus) ⓘ |
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: Roy Bland Description of subject: Roy Bland is a fictional British intelligence officer and double agent in John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, notably featured as one of the suspected moles in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.