Nick Hurran
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Nick Hurran is a British television and film director known for his work on series such as Doctor Who and Sherlock.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nick Hurran canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3924083 — 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: Nick Hurran Context triple: [The Angels Take Manhattan, director, Nick Hurran]
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A.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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B.
Jeremy Adelman
Jeremy Adelman is a composer best known for creating music for television, including the series "Hart of Dixie."
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C.
Keith Bunin
Keith Bunin is an American playwright and screenwriter known for his work on stage and in film, including co-writing the Pixar animated feature "Onward."
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D.
Martin Hurson
Martin Hurson was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member who died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison during the 1981 Irish hunger strikes.
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E.
Josh Srebnick
Josh Srebnick is a central character in the film "While We're Young," portrayed as a middle-aged documentary filmmaker grappling with ambition, authenticity, and aging in contrast to a younger creative couple.
- 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: Nick Hurran Target entity description: Nick Hurran is a British television and film director known for his work on series such as Doctor Who and Sherlock.
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A.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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B.
Jeremy Adelman
Jeremy Adelman is a composer best known for creating music for television, including the series "Hart of Dixie."
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C.
Keith Bunin
Keith Bunin is an American playwright and screenwriter known for his work on stage and in film, including co-writing the Pixar animated feature "Onward."
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D.
Martin Hurson
Martin Hurson was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member who died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison during the 1981 Irish hunger strikes.
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E.
Josh Srebnick
Josh Srebnick is a central character in the film "While We're Young," portrayed as a middle-aged documentary filmmaker grappling with ambition, authenticity, and aging in contrast to a younger creative couple.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directed |
Bonekickers
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Child of Mine ⓘ Doctor Who ⓘ Girls' Night ⓘ It Was an Accident ⓘ Little Black Book ⓘ Plots with a View ⓘ Remember Me (2014 TV series) ⓘ Sherlock ⓘ Take Me (TV series) ⓘ The Last Detective ⓘ The Perfect Match (1995 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Perfect Match
The Prisoner (2009 miniseries) ⓘ The Wronged Man ⓘ Walk Away and I Stumble ⓘ |
| directedEpisodeOf |
Doctor Who series 6
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Doctor Who series 7 ⓘ Sherlock series 3 ⓘ
linked to:
Sherlock
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | directing high-profile British television dramas ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Doctor Who
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Sherlock ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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television director ⓘ |
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: Nick Hurran Description of subject: Nick Hurran is a British television and film director known for his work on series such as Doctor Who and Sherlock.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Doctor Who episode "The Angels Take Manhattan"
subject linked to:
"The Day of the Doctor" (2013)