Ian Bannen
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Ian Bannen was a Scottish character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "The Flight of the Phoenix" and "Braveheart."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ian Bannen canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5531580 — 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: Ian Bannen Context triple: [Damage (1992 film), starring, Ian Bannen]
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A.
Andy Thorpe
Andy Thorpe is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Thorpe, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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B.
Ben Cousins
Ben Cousins is a former Australian rules footballer best known as a Brownlow Medal–winning midfielder and premiership player for the West Coast Eagles whose brilliant career was overshadowed by well-publicized off-field issues.
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C.
Richard Snodgrass
Richard Snodgrass is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to temporal databases and database systems research.
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D.
Nick Baines
Nick Baines is an English Anglican bishop and former Bishop of Bradford who became the first diocesan bishop of the newly created Diocese of Leeds.
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E.
Derek Watt
Derek Watt is an American football fullback who has played in the NFL, notably for the Los Angeles Chargers and Pittsburgh Steelers.
- 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: Ian Bannen Target entity description: Ian Bannen was a Scottish character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "The Flight of the Phoenix" and "Braveheart."
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A.
Andy Thorpe
Andy Thorpe is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Thorpe, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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B.
Ben Cousins
Ben Cousins is a former Australian rules footballer best known as a Brownlow Medal–winning midfielder and premiership player for the West Coast Eagles whose brilliant career was overshadowed by well-publicized off-field issues.
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C.
Richard Snodgrass
Richard Snodgrass is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to temporal databases and database systems research.
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D.
Nick Baines
Nick Baines is an English Anglican bishop and former Bishop of Bradford who became the first diocesan bishop of the newly created Diocese of Leeds.
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E.
Derek Watt
Derek Watt is an American football fullback who has played in the NFL, notably for the Los Angeles Chargers and Pittsburgh Steelers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1999 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | car accident ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-06-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999-11-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | St Aloysius' College, Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Bannen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ historical drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Ian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1978 ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Army Service Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ian Bannen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | versatile character roles in film, television, and theatre ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Braveheart
NERFINISHED
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Doctor Finlay (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ From Beyond the Grave NERFINISHED ⓘ Gandhi NERFINISHED ⓘ Hope and Glory NERFINISHED ⓘ Scandal NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dunera Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flight of the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gathering Storm (1974 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ The Loch Ness Monster (TV work, various documentaries and dramas) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mackintosh Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Offence NERFINISHED ⓘ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Turtle Diary NERFINISHED ⓘ Waking Ned Devine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Near Loch Ness, Scotland ⓘ |
| servedIn | British Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Marilyn Salisbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Ian Bannen Description of subject: Ian Bannen was a Scottish character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "The Flight of the Phoenix" and "Braveheart."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film)
subject surface form:
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film)