Joanna Scanlan
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Joanna Scanlan is a British actress and writer best known for her work on darkly comic television series such as "Getting On" and "The Thick of It."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joanna Scanlan canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6067404 — 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: Joanna Scanlan Context triple: [Getting On (U.S. TV series), basedOnWorkBy, Joanna Scanlan]
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A.
Lisa Sheridan
Lisa Sheridan is the troubled protagonist of the psychological thriller film "Obsessed," whose fixation drives the story's escalating tension and conflict.
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B.
Katherine Patrick
Katherine Patrick is the daughter of former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick and has occasionally appeared in public alongside her politically prominent family.
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C.
Joanna Blunt
Joanna Blunt is the mother of British actress Emily Blunt and a member of the Blunt family connected to the entertainment industry.
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D.
Joanna Pettet
Joanna Pettet is a British actress best known for her film and television work in the 1960s and 1970s, including prominent roles in movies like "Casino Royale" and various popular TV series.
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E.
Lisa Harrow
Lisa Harrow is a New Zealand-born actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in Australian and British productions.
- 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: Joanna Scanlan Target entity description: Joanna Scanlan is a British actress and writer best known for her work on darkly comic television series such as "Getting On" and "The Thick of It."
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A.
Lisa Sheridan
Lisa Sheridan is the troubled protagonist of the psychological thriller film "Obsessed," whose fixation drives the story's escalating tension and conflict.
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B.
Katherine Patrick
Katherine Patrick is the daughter of former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick and has occasionally appeared in public alongside her politically prominent family.
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C.
Joanna Blunt
Joanna Blunt is the mother of British actress Emily Blunt and a member of the Blunt family connected to the entertainment industry.
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D.
Joanna Pettet
Joanna Pettet is a British actress best known for her film and television work in the 1960s and 1970s, including prominent roles in movies like "Casino Royale" and various popular TV series.
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E.
Lisa Harrow
Lisa Harrow is a New Zealand-born actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in Australian and British productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| almaMater | Queens' College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedForWork | After Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-10-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cambridge University
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
|
| employer |
BBC
ⓘ
Channel 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Scanlan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ political satire ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| givenName | Joanna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
DI Viv Deering in No Offence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Denise Flixter in Getting On NERFINISHED ⓘ Fatima in After Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Terri Coverley in The Thick of It NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
British political satire series
ⓘ
darkly comic television roles ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Joanna Scanlan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
After Love
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Getting On NERFINISHED ⓘ Getting On (UK TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ No Offence NERFINISHED ⓘ Puppy Love NERFINISHED ⓘ The Larkins NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thick of It NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thick of It (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | West Kirby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Neil Bicknell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Joanna Scanlan Description of subject: Joanna Scanlan is a British actress and writer best known for her work on darkly comic television series such as "Getting On" and "The Thick of It."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Getting On (U.S. TV series)