Derek Jacobi
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Derek Jacobi is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including notable performances in classical theatre and numerous film and television roles.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Derek Jacobi canonical | 37 |
| Derek George Jacobi | 1 |
| Derek Jacobi as Cassio | 1 |
| Derek Jacobi as Stanley Baldwin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T98385 — 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: Derek Jacobi Context triple: [The King’s Speech, castMember, Derek Jacobi]
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A.
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon was an acclaimed Irish-English actor renowned for his powerful stage work and for portraying Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series.
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B.
Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including notable roles in the Harry Potter series, Mike Leigh’s dramas, and various acclaimed British productions.
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C.
Edward Fox
Edward Fox is an English actor renowned for his roles in films such as "The Day of the Jackal" and "A Bridge Too Far."
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D.
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier was a renowned 20th-century English actor and director, widely regarded as one of the greatest performers in the history of stage and screen.
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E.
Colin Firth
Colin Firth is an Academy Award–winning English actor renowned for his nuanced performances in films such as "The King’s Speech," "Pride and Prejudice," and "A Single Man."
- 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: Derek Jacobi Target entity description: Derek Jacobi is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including notable performances in classical theatre and numerous film and television roles.
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A.
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon was an acclaimed Irish-English actor renowned for his powerful stage work and for portraying Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series.
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B.
Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including notable roles in the Harry Potter series, Mike Leigh’s dramas, and various acclaimed British productions.
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C.
Edward Fox
Edward Fox is an English actor renowned for his roles in films such as "The Day of the Jackal" and "A Bridge Too Far."
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D.
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier was a renowned 20th-century English actor and director, widely regarded as one of the greatest performers in the history of stage and screen.
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E.
Colin Firth
Colin Firth is an Academy Award–winning English actor renowned for his nuanced performances in films such as "The King’s Speech," "Pride and Prejudice," and "A Single Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Derek Jacobi Description of subject: Derek Jacobi is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including notable performances in classical theatre and numerous film and television roles.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Derek George Jacobi
this entity surface form:
Derek Jacobi as Cassio
subject surface form:
My Week with Marilyn
subject surface form:
The Pallisers
subject surface form:
The Gathering Storm (2002 film)
subject surface form:
The Gathering Storm (2002 film)
subject surface form:
The Gathering Storm (2002 film)
this entity surface form:
Derek Jacobi as Stanley Baldwin
subject surface form:
The Master (Doctor Who)