Ken Pile
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Ken Pile is a stuttering, animal-loving hitman and one of the main comic characters in the British-American heist comedy film "A Fish Called Wanda."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ken Pile canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4176566 — 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: Ken Pile Context triple: [A Fish Called Wanda, character, Ken Pile]
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A.
Steve Pugh
Steve Pugh is a British comic book artist best known for his work on titles such as Animal Man, Preacher, and Hotwire.
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B.
Geoff Petrie
Geoff Petrie is a former American professional basketball guard best known as an early star for the Portland Trail Blazers and later a longtime NBA executive.
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C.
Tim Pugh
Tim Pugh is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played primarily for the Cincinnati Reds in the early 1990s.
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D.
Colin Pilger
Colin Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
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E.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
- 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: Ken Pile Target entity description: Ken Pile is a stuttering, animal-loving hitman and one of the main comic characters in the British-American heist comedy film "A Fish Called Wanda."
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A.
Steve Pugh
Steve Pugh is a British comic book artist best known for his work on titles such as Animal Man, Preacher, and Hotwire.
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B.
Geoff Petrie
Geoff Petrie is a former American professional basketball guard best known as an early star for the Portland Trail Blazers and later a longtime NBA executive.
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C.
Tim Pugh
Tim Pugh is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played primarily for the Cincinnati Reds in the early 1990s.
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D.
Colin Pilger
Colin Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
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E.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Fish Called Wanda ⓘ |
| appearsInCountryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
crime comedy film
ⓘ
heist comedy film ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Charles Crichton
ⓘ
John Cleese ⓘ |
| familyName | Pile ⓘ |
| fullName | Ken Pile ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | British-American heist comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Ken ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | hitman ⓘ |
| hasPet |
animals
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fish ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
animal-loving
ⓘ
comic character ⓘ kind-hearted ⓘ nervous ⓘ shy ⓘ stuttering ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comic stutter
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love of animals ⓘ role in A Fish Called Wanda ⓘ |
| partOf | A Fish Called Wanda cast ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Palin ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Ken Pile Description of subject: Ken Pile is a stuttering, animal-loving hitman and one of the main comic characters in the British-American heist comedy film "A Fish Called Wanda."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.