David John McDonald
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David John McDonald, better known by his stage name David Tennant, is a Scottish actor renowned for his role as the Tenth Doctor in the long-running British television series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David John McDonald canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5254851 — 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: David John McDonald Context triple: [David Tennant, birthName, David John McDonald]
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A.
Paul McDonald
Paul McDonald is an American singer-songwriter and former "American Idol" contestant known for his folk-rock style and distinctive raspy voice.
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B.
Kevin McDonald
Kevin McDonald is a Canadian comedian, actor, and writer best known as one of the founding members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
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C.
Scott MacDonald
Scott MacDonald is an American character actor known for his work in television and film, particularly in genre series and dramas.
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D.
David McMillan
David McMillan is the son of Nobel Prize–winning American physicist Edwin McMillan.
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E.
Ray McDonald
Ray McDonald was an American actor and dancer known for his musical film roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
- 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: David John McDonald Target entity description: David John McDonald, better known by his stage name David Tennant, is a Scottish actor renowned for his role as the Tenth Doctor in the long-running British television series Doctor Who.
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A.
Paul McDonald
Paul McDonald is an American singer-songwriter and former "American Idol" contestant known for his folk-rock style and distinctive raspy voice.
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B.
Kevin McDonald
Kevin McDonald is a Canadian comedian, actor, and writer best known as one of the founding members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
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C.
Scott MacDonald
Scott MacDonald is an American character actor known for his work in television and film, particularly in genre series and dramas.
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D.
David McMillan
David McMillan is the son of Nobel Prize–winning American physicist Edwin McMillan.
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E.
Ray McDonald
Ray McDonald was an American actor and dancer known for his musical film roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1987 ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Television Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | David John McDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1971-04-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | McDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
playing the Fourteenth Doctor in Doctor Who
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playing the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who ⓘ television series Broadchurch ⓘ television series Good Omens NERFINISHED ⓘ television series Jessica Jones ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Shakespeare Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | David John McDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Broadchurch
NERFINISHED
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Doctor Who (Tenth Doctor era) NERFINISHED ⓘ Good Omens NERFINISHED ⓘ Jessica Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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producer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| parentOf | Ty Tennant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Hamlet
NERFINISHED
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Much Ado About Nothing NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Alec Hardy
NERFINISHED
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Crowley NERFINISHED ⓘ Kilgrave NERFINISHED ⓘ The Doctor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | London, England ⓘ |
| spouse | Georgia Tennant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | David Tennant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
television series Broadchurch
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television series Doctor Who NERFINISHED ⓘ television series Good Omens NERFINISHED ⓘ television series Jessica Jones ⓘ |
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: David John McDonald Description of subject: David John McDonald, better known by his stage name David Tennant, is a Scottish actor renowned for his role as the Tenth Doctor in the long-running British television series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.