Sean Bean
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Sean Bean is an English actor renowned for his intense performances in film and television, including his iconic role as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sean Bean canonical | 38 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T362963 — 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: Sean Bean Context triple: [The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, mainCastMember, Sean Bean]
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A.
Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen is an acclaimed English actor renowned for his powerful stage and screen performances, including iconic roles such as Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" and Magneto in the "X-Men" film series.
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B.
Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen is an American actor, poet, musician, and painter best known for his portrayal of Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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C.
Joseph Fiennes
Joseph Fiennes is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Shakespeare in Love" and various historical and dramatic productions in both cinema and television.
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D.
Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid is a Scottish actor best known for portraying Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious in the Star Wars film series.
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E.
Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including notable performances in classical theatre and numerous film and television roles.
- 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: Sean Bean Target entity description: Sean Bean is an English actor renowned for his intense performances in film and television, including his iconic role as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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A.
Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen is an acclaimed English actor renowned for his powerful stage and screen performances, including iconic roles such as Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" and Magneto in the "X-Men" film series.
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B.
Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen is an American actor, poet, musician, and painter best known for his portrayal of Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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C.
Joseph Fiennes
Joseph Fiennes is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Shakespeare in Love" and various historical and dramatic productions in both cinema and television.
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D.
Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid is a Scottish actor best known for portraying Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious in the Star Wars film series.
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E.
Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including notable performances in classical theatre and numerous film and television roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
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surface form:
BAFTA Award for Best Actor
|
| birthName | Shaun Mark Bean ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Alec Trevelyan
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Boromir ⓘ Eddard Stark ⓘ Odysseus ⓘ Richard Sharpe ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-04-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
RADA
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ⓘ |
| familyName | Bean ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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drama ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Shaun ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0000293 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Sean Bean self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Black Death
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Broken ⓘ Equilibrium ⓘ Game of Thrones ⓘ GoldenEye ⓘ National Treasure ⓘ Patriot Games ⓘ Ronin ⓘ Sharpe ⓘ The Lord of the Rings film trilogy ⓘ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ⓘ The Martian ⓘ Troy ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Sheffield ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startPeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
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: Sean Bean Description of subject: Sean Bean is an English actor renowned for his intense performances in film and television, including his iconic role as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
GoldenEye
subject surface form:
GoldenEye