Barry Foster
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Barry Foster was a British actor best known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in the TV series "Van der Valk" and Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Frenzy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Barry Foster canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13448600 — 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: Barry Foster Context triple: [King and Country, starring, Barry Foster]
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A.
Barry Jones
Barry Jones was a British character actor known for his distinguished stage and film career in the mid-20th century, often portraying scholarly or aristocratic figures.
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B.
Barry Judd
Barry Judd is a sarcastic, music-obsessed record store employee and friend of the protagonist in the film "High Fidelity."
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C.
Barry Taylor
Barry Taylor is a mild-mannered, socially awkward electrician from Wolverhampton and one of the central British workmen in the comedy-drama series "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet."
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D.
Barry Burns
Barry Burns is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist best known as a longtime member of the post-rock band Mogwai, contributing keyboards, guitar, and other instruments to their atmospheric sound.
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E.
Barry Fairbrother
Barry Fairbrother is a well-liked parish councillor whose sudden death triggers the political and social turmoil at the heart of J.K. Rowling’s novel "The Casual Vacancy."
- 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: Barry Foster Target entity description: Barry Foster was a British actor best known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in the TV series "Van der Valk" and Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Frenzy."
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A.
Barry Jones
Barry Jones was a British character actor known for his distinguished stage and film career in the mid-20th century, often portraying scholarly or aristocratic figures.
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B.
Barry Judd
Barry Judd is a sarcastic, music-obsessed record store employee and friend of the protagonist in the film "High Fidelity."
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C.
Barry Taylor
Barry Taylor is a mild-mannered, socially awkward electrician from Wolverhampton and one of the central British workmen in the comedy-drama series "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet."
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D.
Barry Burns
Barry Burns is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist best known as a longtime member of the post-rock band Mogwai, contributing keyboards, guitar, and other instruments to their atmospheric sound.
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E.
Barry Fairbrother
Barry Fairbrother is a well-liked parish councillor whose sudden death triggers the political and social turmoil at the heart of J.K. Rowling’s novel "The Casual Vacancy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| basedIn | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-08-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2002-02-11 ⓘ |
| directorWorkedWith | Alfred Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Central School of Speech and Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | ITV ⓘ |
| familyName | Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leading role in Van der Valk
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role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Barry Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Bob Rusk
NERFINISHED
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Commissaris Piet Van der Valk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Frenzy
NERFINISHED
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Van der Valk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | London, England ⓘ |
| portrayed | Dutch detective ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Judith Shergold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Frenzy
NERFINISHED
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Van der Valk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1950s–2000s ⓘ |
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: Barry Foster Description of subject: Barry Foster was a British actor best known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in the TV series "Van der Valk" and Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Frenzy."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Battle of Britain