Alan Tilvern
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Alan Tilvern was a British character actor known for his tough-guy roles in film and television, including a notable appearance in the live-action/animated film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan Tilvern canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1637033 — 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: Alan Tilvern Context triple: [Who Framed Roger Rabbit, starredActor, Alan Tilvern]
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A.
Anthony Skingsley
Anthony Skingsley was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command during the late 20th century, overseeing key aspects of the UK's air defense.
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B.
Garth
Garth is a fictional character from the American prime-time television soap opera "Falcon Crest."
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C.
Dorian Sagan
Dorian Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, complexity, and the philosophy of science, often co-authored with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
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D.
Eric Eldred
Eric Eldred is an American digital rights activist and publisher known for his work promoting free access to literature and for co-founding the Creative Commons movement.
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E.
Christopher Thorn
Christopher Thorn is an American musician best known as the guitarist for the alternative rock band Blind Melon.
- 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: Alan Tilvern Target entity description: Alan Tilvern was a British character actor known for his tough-guy roles in film and television, including a notable appearance in the live-action/animated film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
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A.
Anthony Skingsley
Anthony Skingsley was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command during the late 20th century, overseeing key aspects of the UK's air defense.
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B.
Garth
Garth is a fictional character from the American prime-time television soap opera "Falcon Crest."
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C.
Dorian Sagan
Dorian Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, complexity, and the philosophy of science, often co-authored with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
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D.
Eric Eldred
Eric Eldred is an American digital rights activist and publisher known for his work promoting free access to literature and for co-founding the Creative Commons movement.
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E.
Christopher Thorn
Christopher Thorn is an American musician best known as the guitarist for the alternative rock band Blind Melon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Alan Tilvern Description of subject: Alan Tilvern was a British character actor known for his tough-guy roles in film and television, including a notable appearance in the live-action/animated film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.