Angus McBean
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costume designer
human
photographer
portrait photographer
set designer
surrealist artist
theatre photographer
Angus McBean was a Welsh photographer renowned for his surrealist-influenced portraits and iconic album cover work for artists including the Beatles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Angus McBean canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4453434 — 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: Angus McBean Context triple: [Please Please Me, coverPhotographyBy, Angus McBean]
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A.
Ian Meakins
Ian Meakins is a British business executive known for leading major multinational companies, including serving as chairman of Unilever.
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B.
Angus McGill
Angus McGill was a British journalist and humorist known for his witty newspaper columns and light comic writing.
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C.
Trevor McDonald
Trevor McDonald is a renowned British newsreader and journalist, best known as one of the most prominent and pioneering Black broadcasters on UK television.
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D.
Ray McDonald
Ray McDonald was an American actor and dancer known for his musical film roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
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E.
Fergus McMaster
Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman best known as a co-founder and early chairman of Qantas, helping to establish it as a pioneering national airline.
- 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: Angus McBean Target entity description: Angus McBean was a Welsh photographer renowned for his surrealist-influenced portraits and iconic album cover work for artists including the Beatles.
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A.
Ian Meakins
Ian Meakins is a British business executive known for leading major multinational companies, including serving as chairman of Unilever.
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B.
Angus McGill
Angus McGill was a British journalist and humorist known for his witty newspaper columns and light comic writing.
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C.
Trevor McDonald
Trevor McDonald is a renowned British newsreader and journalist, best known as one of the most prominent and pioneering Black broadcasters on UK television.
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D.
Ray McDonald
Ray McDonald was an American actor and dancer known for his musical film roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
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E.
Fergus McMaster
Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman best known as a co-founder and early chairman of Qantas, helping to establish it as a pioneering national airline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
costume designer
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human ⓘ photographer ⓘ portrait photographer ⓘ set designer ⓘ surrealist artist ⓘ theatre photographer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1980s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930 ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1904-06-08 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales
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linked to:
Newport, Wales
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| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1990-06-09 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Welsh ⓘ |
| familyName | McBean ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
costume design
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photography ⓘ portrait photography ⓘ stage design ⓘ theatre photography ⓘ |
| genre | surrealist photography ⓘ |
| givenName | Angus ⓘ |
| influenced | British portrait photography ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Surrealist art
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linked to:
Surrealism
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| knownFor |
iconic album cover photography for popular music artists
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innovative theatrical portraiture ⓘ surrealist-influenced portraits ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Surrealism ⓘ |
| name | Angus McBean ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album cover photography for the Beatles
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cover photograph for the Beatles album "A Hard Day's Night" (UK single) ⓘ cover photograph for the Beatles album "Beatles for Sale" ⓘ cover photograph for the Beatles album "Please Please Me" ⓘ cover photograph for the Beatles album "With the Beatles" ⓘ photographic work for Sadler's Wells Theatre ⓘ photographic work for the Old Vic Theatre ⓘ portraits of Audrey Hepburn ⓘ portraits of Ivor Novello ⓘ portraits of John Gielgud ⓘ portraits of Laurence Olivier ⓘ surrealist-influenced photographic portraits ⓘ theatrical portraits of Vivien Leigh ⓘ |
| occupation |
costume designer
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photographer ⓘ set designer ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | London, England ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
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: Angus McBean Description of subject: Angus McBean was a Welsh photographer renowned for his surrealist-influenced portraits and iconic album cover work for artists including the Beatles.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.