David Learner
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David Learner is a British actor best known for physically portraying Marvin the Paranoid Android in the BBC television adaptation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Learner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T619749 — 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: David Learner Context triple: [Marvin the Paranoid Android, portrayedBy, David Learner]
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A.
Ted Lerner
Ted Lerner was an American real estate developer and principal owner of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team.
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B.
Philip Handler
Philip Handler was an influential American biochemist and longtime president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, recognized for his leadership in science policy and public service.
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C.
Pat Hanrahan
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics pioneer, Stanford professor, and Turing Award–winning researcher best known for co-founding Tableau and his influential work on rendering and visualization.
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D.
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
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E.
Chris Lebenzon
Chris Lebenzon is an American film editor known for his long-time collaborations with directors like Tim Burton and Tony Scott on major Hollywood films.
- 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: David Learner Target entity description: David Learner is a British actor best known for physically portraying Marvin the Paranoid Android in the BBC television adaptation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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A.
Ted Lerner
Ted Lerner was an American real estate developer and principal owner of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team.
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B.
Philip Handler
Philip Handler was an influential American biochemist and longtime president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, recognized for his leadership in science policy and public service.
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C.
Pat Hanrahan
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics pioneer, Stanford professor, and Turing Award–winning researcher best known for co-founding Tableau and his influential work on rendering and visualization.
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D.
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
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E.
Chris Lebenzon
Chris Lebenzon is an American film editor known for his long-time collaborations with directors like Tim Burton and Tony Scott on major Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British actor
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actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th-century television ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
BBC
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy franchise ⓘ
linked to:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
|
| basedOn | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio and novel series) ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedFromWork | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedIs |
android
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robot ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | BBC ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
science fiction acting
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television acting ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction television ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | television actor ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance | television ⓘ |
| notableCharacterPortrayed | Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) ⓘ |
| notableFor | physically portraying Marvin the Paranoid Android ⓘ |
| notablePerformanceMedium | costume performance ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981 BBC TV series) ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC TV series) ⓘ |
| portrayalType | physical performance ⓘ |
| portrayed | Marvin the Paranoid Android ⓘ |
| workedOn | BBC television adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⓘ |
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: David Learner Description of subject: David Learner is a British actor best known for physically portraying Marvin the Paranoid Android in the BBC television adaptation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.