Tim Curry
E207749
Tim Curry is an English actor, singer, and voice artist best known for his iconic role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tim Curry canonical | 14 |
| Tim Curry's portrayal of Pennywise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1867099 — 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: Tim Curry Context triple: [University of Birmingham, hasAlumni, Tim Curry]
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A.
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant is a Swazi-English actor and director best known for his breakout role in the cult film "Withnail and I" and for his diverse performances in both British and Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Warwick Davis
Warwick Davis is an English actor best known for his roles in fantasy and science-fiction films such as "Willow," the "Harry Potter" series, and the "Star Wars" franchise.
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C.
Cary Elwes
Cary Elwes is an English actor best known for his roles in films such as "The Princess Bride," "Robin Hood: Men in Tights," and "Saw."
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D.
Robbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane was a Scottish actor and comedian best known for playing Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series.
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E.
Michael Lonsdale
Michael Lonsdale was a distinguished French-English actor known for his versatile performances in European cinema and Hollywood films, including roles in "The Day of the Jackal" and the James Bond film "Moonraker."
- 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: Tim Curry Target entity description: Tim Curry is an English actor, singer, and voice artist best known for his iconic role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
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A.
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant is a Swazi-English actor and director best known for his breakout role in the cult film "Withnail and I" and for his diverse performances in both British and Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Warwick Davis
Warwick Davis is an English actor best known for his roles in fantasy and science-fiction films such as "Willow," the "Harry Potter" series, and the "Star Wars" franchise.
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C.
Cary Elwes
Cary Elwes is an English actor best known for his roles in films such as "The Princess Bride," "Robin Hood: Men in Tights," and "Saw."
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D.
Robbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane was a Scottish actor and comedian best known for playing Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series.
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E.
Michael Lonsdale
Michael Lonsdale was a distinguished French-English actor known for his versatile performances in European cinema and Hollywood films, including roles in "The Day of the Jackal" and the James Bond film "Moonraker."
- 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: Tim Curry Description of subject: Tim Curry is an English actor, singer, and voice artist best known for his iconic role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tim Curry's portrayal of Pennywise
subject surface form:
It (Stephen King)