Rex Harrison
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Rex Harrison was a distinguished English stage and film actor best known for his sophisticated, witty performances in classics such as "My Fair Lady."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rex Harrison canonical | 13 |
| Rex Harrison (actor) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3168848 — 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: Rex Harrison Context triple: [Anna and the King of Siam, starring, Rex Harrison]
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A.
Trevor Howard
Trevor Howard was a distinguished English film and stage actor best known for his roles in classic films such as "Brief Encounter" and "The Third Man."
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B.
David Niven
David Niven was a distinguished English actor known for his suave, debonair screen presence and acclaimed roles in films such as "Around the World in 80 Days" and "Separate Tables."
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C.
Michael Wilding
Michael Wilding was a British film and stage actor best known for his roles in 1940s–1950s British cinema and for his high-profile marriage to actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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D.
Robert Donat
Robert Donat was an acclaimed English stage and film actor best known for his performances in classic films such as "The 39 Steps" and his Oscar-winning role in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips."
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E.
George Powell
George Powell was a 19th-century British sealer and explorer noted for his Antarctic voyages and co-discovery of several sub-Antarctic islands.
- 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: Rex Harrison Target entity description: Rex Harrison was a distinguished English stage and film actor best known for his sophisticated, witty performances in classics such as "My Fair Lady."
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A.
Trevor Howard
Trevor Howard was a distinguished English film and stage actor best known for his roles in classic films such as "Brief Encounter" and "The Third Man."
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B.
David Niven
David Niven was a distinguished English actor known for his suave, debonair screen presence and acclaimed roles in films such as "Around the World in 80 Days" and "Separate Tables."
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C.
Michael Wilding
Michael Wilding was a British film and stage actor best known for his roles in 1940s–1950s British cinema and for his high-profile marriage to actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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D.
Robert Donat
Robert Donat was an acclaimed English stage and film actor best known for his performances in classic films such as "The 39 Steps" and his Oscar-winning role in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips."
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E.
George Powell
George Powell was a 19th-century British sealer and explorer noted for his Antarctic voyages and co-discovery of several sub-Antarctic islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Rex Harrison Description of subject: Rex Harrison was a distinguished English stage and film actor best known for his sophisticated, witty performances in classics such as "My Fair Lady."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rex Harrison (actor)