Alan Howard
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Alan Howard was an English actor known for his distinguished stage career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and notable film roles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan Howard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4203986 — 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: Alan Howard Context triple: [The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, leadActor, Alan Howard]
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A.
Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside is a Canadian actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in science fiction and action films such as "Total Recall," "Starship Troopers," and "Top Gun."
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B.
Michael Hordern
Michael Hordern was an English actor renowned for his distinguished stage and screen career, often noted for his Shakespearean roles and character work in British film and television.
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C.
Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
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."
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E.
Michael Kane
Michael Kane is a screenwriter best known for writing the 1983 American sports drama film "All the Right Moves."
- 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: Alan Howard Target entity description: Alan Howard was an English actor known for his distinguished stage career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and notable film roles.
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A.
Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside is a Canadian actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in science fiction and action films such as "Total Recall," "Starship Troopers," and "Top Gun."
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B.
Michael Hordern
Michael Hordern was an English actor renowned for his distinguished stage and screen career, often noted for his Shakespearean roles and character work in British film and television.
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C.
Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
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."
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E.
Michael Kane
Michael Kane is a screenwriter best known for writing the 1983 American sports drama film "All the Right Moves."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2010s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Evening Standard Theatre Award
NERFINISHED
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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-08-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-02-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Ardingly College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Royal Shakespeare Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre | classical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Alan ⓘ |
| hasGenre | Shakespearean drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Shakespeare Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Alan Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Coriolanus in Coriolanus
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Hamlet in Hamlet ⓘ Henry V in Henry V ⓘ Prince Hal in Henry IV NERFINISHED ⓘ voice of the One Ring in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
BBC television Shakespeare productions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Royal Shakespeare Company stage productions ⓘ Strange Interlude (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lord of the Rings film trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Royal National Theatre productions
NERFINISHED
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West End theatre productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Croydon, Surrey, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | London, England ⓘ |
| relative |
Jean Compton Mackenzie
NERFINISHED
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Leslie Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | London, England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Sally Beauman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTimeOfActivity | 1950s ⓘ |
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: Alan Howard Description of subject: Alan Howard was an English actor known for his distinguished stage career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and notable film roles.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.