Alec Guinness
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Alec Guinness was an acclaimed English actor renowned for his versatile performances in classic films such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Kind Hearts and Coronets," and as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original "Star Wars" trilogy.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alec Guinness canonical | 18 |
| Alec Guinness de Cuffe | 1 |
| Sir Alec Guinness | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1086399 — 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: Alec Guinness Context triple: [Lawrence of Arabia, starring, Alec Guinness]
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A.
Ian Holm
Ian Holm was an acclaimed English actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including his memorable role as Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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B.
Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart is an acclaimed English actor best known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series.
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C.
Michael Attenborough
Michael Attenborough is a British theatre director known for his leadership roles at major UK theatres, including the Almeida Theatre in London.
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D.
Clive Merrison
Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
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E.
Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen is an acclaimed English actor renowned for his powerful stage and screen performances, including iconic roles such as Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" and Magneto in the "X-Men" film series.
- 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: Alec Guinness Target entity description: Alec Guinness was an acclaimed English actor renowned for his versatile performances in classic films such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Kind Hearts and Coronets," and as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original "Star Wars" trilogy.
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A.
Ian Holm
Ian Holm was an acclaimed English actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including his memorable role as Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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B.
Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart is an acclaimed English actor best known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series.
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C.
Michael Attenborough
Michael Attenborough is a British theatre director known for his leadership roles at major UK theatres, including the Almeida Theatre in London.
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D.
Clive Merrison
Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
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E.
Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen is an acclaimed English actor renowned for his powerful stage and screen performances, including iconic roles such as Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" and Magneto in the "X-Men" film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
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: Alec Guinness Description of subject: Alec Guinness was an acclaimed English actor renowned for his versatile performances in classic films such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Kind Hearts and Coronets," and as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original "Star Wars" trilogy.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Smiley’s People
this entity surface form:
Sir Alec Guinness
this entity surface form:
Alec Guinness de Cuffe
subject surface form:
A Majority of One (1961 film)