Mark Wing-Davey
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Mark Wing-Davey is a British actor and director best known for playing the two-headed, three-armed Zaphod Beeblebrox in the original radio and television adaptations of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mark Wing-Davey canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T711005 — 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: Mark Wing-Davey Context triple: [Zaphod Beeblebrox, portrayedBy, Mark Wing-Davey]
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A.
Kerry Fox
Kerry Fox is a New Zealand actress known for her work in independent and art-house films, including notable roles in "An Angel at My Table" and "Shallow Grave."
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B.
David Seidler
David Seidler is a British-American screenwriter best known for writing the Academy Award-winning screenplay for the historical drama film "The King’s Speech."
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C.
Dominic Kinnear
Dominic Kinnear is a Scottish-American soccer coach and former player best known for leading the Houston Dynamo to multiple MLS Cup titles in the mid-2000s.
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D.
Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham is an English character actor known for his intense, often gritty performances in films and television series such as "This Is England," "Boardwalk Empire," and "The Irishman."
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E.
Clive Russell
Clive Russell is a Scottish character actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in productions such as "Game of Thrones," "Sherlock Holmes," and numerous British dramas.
- 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: Mark Wing-Davey Target entity description: Mark Wing-Davey is a British actor and director best known for playing the two-headed, three-armed Zaphod Beeblebrox in the original radio and television adaptations of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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A.
Kerry Fox
Kerry Fox is a New Zealand actress known for her work in independent and art-house films, including notable roles in "An Angel at My Table" and "Shallow Grave."
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B.
David Seidler
David Seidler is a British-American screenwriter best known for writing the Academy Award-winning screenplay for the historical drama film "The King’s Speech."
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C.
John Dawson
John Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and fusion research.
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D.
Dominic Kinnear
Dominic Kinnear is a Scottish-American soccer coach and former player best known for leading the Houston Dynamo to multiple MLS Cup titles in the mid-2000s.
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E.
Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham is an English character actor known for his intense, often gritty performances in films and television series such as "This Is England," "Boardwalk Empire," and "The Irishman."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Zaphod Beeblebrox ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Wing-Davey ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
performing arts
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theatre direction ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction (as performer in Hitchhiker's Guide) ⓘ |
| givenName | Mark ⓘ |
| hasNotableRole |
Zaphod Beeblebrox
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surface form:
two-headed, three-armed Zaphod Beeblebrox
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| knownFor | portraying Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance |
radio
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stage ⓘ television ⓘ |
| name | Mark Wing-Davey self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| partOf |
cast of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)
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cast of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) ⓘ |
| workLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Mark Wing-Davey Description of subject: Mark Wing-Davey is a British actor and director best known for playing the two-headed, three-armed Zaphod Beeblebrox in the original radio and television adaptations of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.