David Percival
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David Percival is a maverick, hard-drinking MI6 station chief in Berlin who plays a pivotal and morally ambiguous role in the Cold War spy thriller "Atomic Blonde."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Percival canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2200484 — 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 Percival Context triple: [Atomic Blonde, character, David Percival]
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A.
Anthony Darwin
Anthony Darwin is the son of British former prison officer John Darwin, who became widely known for his role in the infamous "canoe man" faked-death insurance fraud case.
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B.
Russell Lloyd
Russell Lloyd was a British film editor best known for his work on major mid-20th-century films, including collaborations with director John Huston.
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C.
Gorden Tallis
Gorden Tallis is a former Australian rugby league forward renowned for his powerful running and leadership for the Brisbane Broncos, Queensland Maroons, and the Australian national team.
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D.
Gordon Bottomley
Gordon Bottomley was an English poet and dramatist of the early 20th century, noted for his verse dramas and his role in the Georgian poetry movement.
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E.
Nigel Davenport
Nigel Davenport was a distinguished English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre from the 1950s through the 1990s.
- 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 Percival Target entity description: David Percival is a maverick, hard-drinking MI6 station chief in Berlin who plays a pivotal and morally ambiguous role in the Cold War spy thriller "Atomic Blonde."
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A.
Anthony Darwin
Anthony Darwin is the son of British former prison officer John Darwin, who became widely known for his role in the infamous "canoe man" faked-death insurance fraud case.
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B.
Russell Lloyd
Russell Lloyd was a British film editor best known for his work on major mid-20th-century films, including collaborations with director John Huston.
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C.
Gorden Tallis
Gorden Tallis is a former Australian rugby league forward renowned for his powerful running and leadership for the Brisbane Broncos, Queensland Maroons, and the Australian national team.
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D.
Gordon Bottomley
Gordon Bottomley was an English poet and dramatist of the early 20th century, noted for his verse dramas and his role in the Georgian poetry movement.
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E.
Nigel Davenport
Nigel Davenport was a distinguished English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre from the 1950s through the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| alignment | ambiguous ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Atomic Blonde ⓘ |
| appearsInFilmGenre | action thriller film ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Berlin ⓘ |
| basedIn | Berlin ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
hard-drinking
ⓘ
maverick ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkOrigin |
Germany
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdFor |
Atomic Blonde
ⓘ
surface form:
Atomic Blonde (2017 film)
|
| employer |
Secret Intelligence Service
ⓘ
surface form:
MI6
|
| fictionalUniverse |
Atomic Blonde
ⓘ
surface form:
Atomic Blonde universe
|
| genreOfWork | Cold War spy thriller ⓘ |
| involvedIn | espionage activities ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | morally ambiguous character ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | British ⓘ |
| occupation | MI6 station chief ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | 2017 ⓘ |
| roleInWork | pivotal character in Atomic Blonde ⓘ |
| setDuring | Cold War ⓘ |
| worksForInStory | British intelligence ⓘ |
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 Percival Description of subject: David Percival is a maverick, hard-drinking MI6 station chief in Berlin who plays a pivotal and morally ambiguous role in the Cold War spy thriller "Atomic Blonde."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lorraine Broughton
subject surface form:
Delphine Lasalle