Richard Harris
E169974
Richard Harris was an acclaimed Irish actor known for his powerful screen presence in films such as "This Sporting Life," "Camelot," and as Albus Dumbledore in the first two "Harry Potter" movies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Harris canonical | 25 |
| Richard St John Harris | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1207611 — 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: Richard Harris Context triple: [Gladiator, portrayedBy, Richard Harris]
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A.
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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B.
Michael Caine
Michael Caine is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinctive voice and versatile performances across decades of film, including frequent roles in Christopher Nolan’s movies.
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C.
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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D.
Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy is an English actor known for his distinctive voice and acclaimed performances in films such as "Love Actually," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and "About Time."
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E.
John Hurt
John Hurt was an acclaimed English actor known for his distinctive voice and powerful performances in films such as "The Elephant Man," "Alien," and "Midnight Express."
- 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: Richard Harris Target entity description: Richard Harris was an acclaimed Irish actor known for his powerful screen presence in films such as "This Sporting Life," "Camelot," and as Albus Dumbledore in the first two "Harry Potter" movies.
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A.
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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B.
Michael Caine
Michael Caine is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinctive voice and versatile performances across decades of film, including frequent roles in Christopher Nolan’s movies.
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C.
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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D.
Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy is an English actor known for his distinctive voice and acclaimed performances in films such as "Love Actually," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and "About Time."
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E.
John Hurt
John Hurt was an acclaimed English actor known for his distinctive voice and powerful performances in films such as "The Elephant Man," "Alien," and "Midnight Express."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Richard Harris Description of subject: Richard Harris was an acclaimed Irish actor known for his powerful screen presence in films such as "This Sporting Life," "Camelot," and as Albus Dumbledore in the first two "Harry Potter" movies.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Richard St John Harris
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park (Richard Harris recording)
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park