David Thewlis
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David Thewlis is an English actor and filmmaker best known for roles such as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series and his award-winning performance in Mike Leigh’s "Naked."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Thewlis canonical | 24 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1678452 — 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: David Thewlis Context triple: [War Horse, starring, David Thewlis]
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A.
Joseph Fiennes
Joseph Fiennes is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Shakespeare in Love" and various historical and dramatic productions in both cinema and television.
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B.
Toby Jones
Toby Jones is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects such as "Infamous," the "Harry Potter" series, and "The Hunger Games."
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C.
Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in the television series "Inspector Morse" and its spin-off "Lewis."
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D.
Magnus Fiennes
Magnus Fiennes is a British composer, record producer, and songwriter known for his work in film, television, and pop music.
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E.
James D'Arcy
James D'Arcy is a British actor known for his roles in films such as "Dunkirk" and "Cloud Atlas" and in television series including "Broadchurch" and "Agent Carter."
- 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: David Thewlis Target entity description: David Thewlis is an English actor and filmmaker best known for roles such as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series and his award-winning performance in Mike Leigh’s "Naked."
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A.
Joseph Fiennes
Joseph Fiennes is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Shakespeare in Love" and various historical and dramatic productions in both cinema and television.
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B.
Toby Jones
Toby Jones is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects such as "Infamous," the "Harry Potter" series, and "The Hunger Games."
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C.
Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in the television series "Inspector Morse" and its spin-off "Lewis."
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D.
Magnus Fiennes
Magnus Fiennes is a British composer, record producer, and songwriter known for his work in film, television, and pop music.
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E.
James D'Arcy
James D'Arcy is a British actor known for his roles in films such as "Dunkirk" and "Cloud Atlas" and in television series including "Broadchurch" and "Agent Carter."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: David Thewlis Description of subject: David Thewlis is an English actor and filmmaker best known for roles such as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series and his award-winning performance in Mike Leigh’s "Naked."
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wonder Woman (2017 film)
subject surface form:
Naked (1993 film)