Penelope Wilton
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Penelope Wilton is an English actress known for her acclaimed work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in "Downton Abbey" and "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Penelope Wilton canonical | 33 |
| Dame Penelope Alice Wilton | 1 |
| Penelope Wilton as Ann Bryce | 1 |
| Penelope Wilton as Pat | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2182146 — 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: Penelope Wilton Context triple: [Ian Holm, spouse, Penelope Wilton]
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A.
Lesley Garrett
Lesley Garrett is an English soprano and media personality known for her operatic performances and popular classical crossover work.
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B.
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock is a British actress and author renowned for her extensive work in theatre, television, and film, as well as her appearances as a television presenter and panelist.
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C.
Eileen Atkins
Eileen Atkins is an acclaimed English actress and screenwriter known for her work on stage, film, and television, including co-creating the series "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "House of Eliott."
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D.
Edith Lesley
Edith Lesley was an American educator and founder of the teacher-training institution that evolved into Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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E.
Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw was an acclaimed English actress renowned for her intense stage and screen performances, particularly in the plays of Samuel Beckett.
- 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: Penelope Wilton Target entity description: Penelope Wilton is an English actress known for her acclaimed work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in "Downton Abbey" and "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel."
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A.
Lesley Garrett
Lesley Garrett is an English soprano and media personality known for her operatic performances and popular classical crossover work.
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B.
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock is a British actress and author renowned for her extensive work in theatre, television, and film, as well as her appearances as a television presenter and panelist.
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C.
Eileen Atkins
Eileen Atkins is an acclaimed English actress and screenwriter known for her work on stage, film, and television, including co-creating the series "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "House of Eliott."
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D.
Edith Lesley
Edith Lesley was an American educator and founder of the teacher-training institution that evolved into Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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E.
Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw was an acclaimed English actress renowned for her intense stage and screen performances, particularly in the plays of Samuel Beckett.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Penelope Wilton Description of subject: Penelope Wilton is an English actress known for her acclaimed work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in "Downton Abbey" and "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel."
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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After Life
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"Aliens of London"
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novel "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"