Paul McGann
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Paul McGann is an English actor best known for playing the Eighth Doctor in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who and for his roles in films such as "Withnail and I."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul McGann canonical | 34 |
| Eighth Doctor in Doctor Who: The Movie | 1 |
| Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T382499 — 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: Paul McGann Context triple: [Drama Centre London, notableAlumni, Paul McGann]
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A.
Peter Straughan
Peter Straughan is a British screenwriter known for his work on acclaimed films such as the adaptation of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
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B.
Robert Little
Robert Little was a distinguished Australian fighter ace of World War I who became one of the highest-scoring pilots in British service.
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C.
Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch
Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch is the eldest son of British actor Benedict Cumberbatch and theatre director Sophie Hunter.
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D.
Michael Gough
Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
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E.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch is an acclaimed English actor known for his roles in the television series "Sherlock" and films such as "The Imitation Game" and the Marvel Cinematic Universe's "Doctor Strange."
- 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: Paul McGann Target entity description: Paul McGann is an English actor best known for playing the Eighth Doctor in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who and for his roles in films such as "Withnail and I."
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A.
Peter Straughan
Peter Straughan is a British screenwriter known for his work on acclaimed films such as the adaptation of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
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B.
Robert Little
Robert Little was a distinguished Australian fighter ace of World War I who became one of the highest-scoring pilots in British service.
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C.
Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch
Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch is the eldest son of British actor Benedict Cumberbatch and theatre director Sophie Hunter.
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D.
Michael Gough
Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
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E.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch is an acclaimed English actor known for his roles in the television series "Sherlock" and films such as "The Imitation Game" and the Marvel Cinematic Universe's "Doctor Strange."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Paul McGann Description of subject: Paul McGann is an English actor best known for playing the Eighth Doctor in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who and for his roles in films such as "Withnail and I."
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eighth Doctor in Doctor Who: The Movie
subject surface form:
Joe McGann
subject surface form:
Mark McGann
subject surface form:
Stephen McGann
subject surface form:
Shada
subject surface form:
The Night of the Doctor
subject surface form:
The Night of the Doctor
subject surface form:
The Night of the Doctor
this entity surface form:
Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor