Simon Shepherd
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Simon Shepherd is a British actor best known for his television work, including prominent roles in series such as "Chancer" and "Peak Practice."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon Shepherd canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11203054 — 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: Simon Shepherd Context triple: [Chancer, starring, Simon Shepherd]
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A.
Philip Ridley
Philip Ridley is a British playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and visual artist known for his dark, surreal works in theatre and cinema, including the cult film "The Reflecting Skin."
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B.
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director renowned for his sophisticated adaptations of literary works for stage and film, including the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Dangerous Liaisons."
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C.
David Hare
David Hare is a prominent British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically charged stage works and acclaimed film adaptations such as "The Hours."
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D.
Dennis Kelly
Dennis Kelly is a British playwright and screenwriter known for his darkly comic and often unsettling work in theatre and television, including the acclaimed series "Utopia" and the stage musical "Matilda."
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E.
Joe Penhall
Joe Penhall is a British playwright and screenwriter known for works such as the play "Blue/Orange" and for writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road."
- 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: Simon Shepherd Target entity description: Simon Shepherd is a British actor best known for his television work, including prominent roles in series such as "Chancer" and "Peak Practice."
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A.
Philip Ridley
Philip Ridley is a British playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and visual artist known for his dark, surreal works in theatre and cinema, including the cult film "The Reflecting Skin."
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B.
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director renowned for his sophisticated adaptations of literary works for stage and film, including the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Dangerous Liaisons."
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C.
David Hare
David Hare is a prominent British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically charged stage works and acclaimed film adaptations such as "The Hours."
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D.
Dennis Kelly
Dennis Kelly is a British playwright and screenwriter known for his darkly comic and often unsettling work in theatre and television, including the acclaimed series "Utopia" and the stage musical "Matilda."
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E.
Joe Penhall
Joe Penhall is a British playwright and screenwriter known for works such as the play "Blue/Orange" and for writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White British ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
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performing arts ⓘ stage acting ⓘ television acting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ television ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
British films
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British television series ⓘ British theatre productions ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in Chancer
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role in Peak Practice ⓘ roles in British television drama series ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Touch of Frost
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Casualty ⓘ Chancer ⓘ Doctors ⓘ Henry V ⓘ
linked to:
Henry V (play)
Peak Practice ⓘ The Duck House ⓘ The Ruling Class ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Simon Shepherd Description of subject: Simon Shepherd is a British actor best known for his television work, including prominent roles in series such as "Chancer" and "Peak Practice."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.