Donat
E1023014
Donat is a surname most famously associated with Robert Donat, the Oscar-winning English actor known for classic films such as "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" and "The 39 Steps."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donat canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13104890 — 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: Donat Context triple: [Robert Donat, familyName, Donat]
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A.
Donato
Donato is the Italian given name of the Renaissance sculptor Donatello, reflecting a traditional male name meaning "given" or "gifted."
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B.
Donat Calas
Donat Calas was a French merchant whose controversial conviction and execution for murder in 1762 became a famous cause célèbre championed by Voltaire in the broader struggle against religious intolerance and judicial injustice.
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C.
Sandro
Sandro is a common Italian given name, typically used as a diminutive or short form of Alessandro.
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D.
Paolo
Paolo is the Italian form of the given name Paul, commonly used in Italy and other Italian-speaking communities.
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E.
Dore
The Dore is a river in central France that flows through the Massif Central before joining the Allier.
- 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: Donat Target entity description: Donat is a surname most famously associated with Robert Donat, the Oscar-winning English actor known for classic films such as "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" and "The 39 Steps."
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A.
Donato
Donato is the Italian given name of the Renaissance sculptor Donatello, reflecting a traditional male name meaning "given" or "gifted."
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B.
Donat Calas
Donat Calas was a French merchant whose controversial conviction and execution for murder in 1762 became a famous cause célèbre championed by Voltaire in the broader struggle against religious intolerance and judicial injustice.
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C.
Sandro
Sandro is a common Italian given name, typically used as a diminutive or short form of Alessandro.
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D.
Paolo
Paolo is the Italian form of the given name Paul, commonly used in Italy and other Italian-speaking communities.
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E.
Dore
The Dore is a river in central France that flows through the Massif Central before joining the Allier.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English actor
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family name ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1958 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1921 ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Actor ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Goodbye, Mr. Chips ⓘ |
| awardReceivedYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| birthName | Friedrich Robert Donat ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | asthma ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1905-03-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1958-06-09 ⓘ |
| familyName | Donat ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Friedrich Robert ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Robert Donat ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
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The 39 Steps ⓘ The Citadel ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Withington, Manchester, England
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linked to:
Withington, Manchester
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| placeOfDeath | London, England ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ella Annesley Voysey
ⓘ
Renée Asherson ⓘ |
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: Donat Description of subject: Donat is a surname most famously associated with Robert Donat, the Oscar-winning English actor known for classic films such as "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" and "The 39 Steps."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.