Mark Strong
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Mark Strong is a British actor known for his intense screen presence and frequent roles as complex villains or stern mentors in films such as "Kingsman," "Sherlock Holmes," and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Strong canonical | 41 |
| Jack Davenport | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T382177 — 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: Mark Strong Context triple: [Kingsman: The Secret Service, castMember, Mark Strong]
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A.
Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy is an English actor known for his distinctive voice and acclaimed performances in films such as "Love Actually," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and "About Time."
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B.
Peter Macon
Peter Macon is an American actor best known for playing the Moclan officer Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on the science fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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C.
Benjamin Whitrow
Benjamin Whitrow was a British character actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Mr. Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
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D.
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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E.
David Bamber
David Bamber is an English actor known for his character roles in British television and film, including his portrayal of Mr. Collins in the 1995 adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
- 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: Mark Strong Target entity description: Mark Strong is a British actor known for his intense screen presence and frequent roles as complex villains or stern mentors in films such as "Kingsman," "Sherlock Holmes," and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
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A.
Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy is an English actor known for his distinctive voice and acclaimed performances in films such as "Love Actually," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and "About Time."
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B.
Peter Macon
Peter Macon is an American actor best known for playing the Moclan officer Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on the science fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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C.
Benjamin Whitrow
Benjamin Whitrow was a British character actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Mr. Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
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D.
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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E.
David Bamber
David Bamber is an English actor known for his character roles in British television and film, including his portrayal of Mr. Collins in the 1995 adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| birthName | Marco Giuseppe Salussolia ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Dr. Thaddeus Sivana in Shazam! (2019 film)
ⓘ
Frank D'Amico in Kick-Ass (2010 film) ⓘ Jim Prideaux in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film) ⓘ Lord Blackwood in Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) ⓘ Merlin in the Kingsman film series ⓘ Green Lantern ⓘ
surface form:
Sinestro in Green Lantern (2011 film)
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-08-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
ⓘ
Royal Holloway, University of London ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| hairColor | bald ⓘ |
| hasChild | two sons ⓘ |
| hasWorkedWith |
Colin Firth
ⓘ
surface form:
actor Colin Firth
Gary Oldman ⓘ
surface form:
actor Gary Oldman
Robert Downey Jr. ⓘ
surface form:
actor Robert Downey Jr.
Guy Ritchie ⓘ
surface form:
director Guy Ritchie
director Matthew Vaughn ⓘ Tomas Alfredson ⓘ
surface form:
director Tomas Alfredson
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Mark Strong self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
intense screen presence
ⓘ
portraying complex villains ⓘ portraying stern mentor characters ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
deep voice
ⓘ
frequent casting as antagonists ⓘ |
| notableWork |
1917 (film)
ⓘ
surface form:
1917 (2019 film)
Body of Lies ⓘ Deep State (TV series) ⓘ Green Lantern ⓘ
surface form:
Green Lantern (2011 film)
Kick-Ass ⓘ
surface form:
Kick-Ass (2010 film)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle ⓘ Kingsman: The Secret Service ⓘ Our Friends in the North ⓘ Shazam! ⓘ
surface form:
Shazam! (2019 film)
Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) ⓘ The Imitation Game ⓘ The Long Firm ⓘ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film) ⓘ Zero Dark Thirty (2012 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Zero Dark Thirty
|
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | London, England ⓘ |
| spouse | Liza Marshall ⓘ |
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: Mark Strong Description of subject: Mark Strong is a British actor known for his intense screen presence and frequent roles as complex villains or stern mentors in films such as "Kingsman," "Sherlock Holmes," and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jack Davenport
subject surface form:
Merlin (Kingsman)
subject surface form:
The Imitation Game
subject surface form:
Jim Prideaux (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 2011 film)
subject surface form:
Frank D'Amico
subject surface form:
Deep State