Kevin Whately
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Kevin Whately is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in the television series "Inspector Morse" and its spin-off "Lewis."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin Whately canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T382250 — 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: Kevin Whately Context triple: [The English Patient, castMember, Kevin Whately]
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A.
Mark Strong
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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B.
Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including notable performances in classical theatre and numerous film and television roles.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including notable roles in the Harry Potter series, Mike Leigh’s dramas, and various acclaimed 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: Kevin Whately Target entity description: Kevin Whately is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in the television series "Inspector Morse" and its spin-off "Lewis."
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A.
Mark Strong
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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B.
Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including notable performances in classical theatre and numerous film and television roles.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including notable roles in the Harry Potter series, Mike Leigh’s dramas, and various acclaimed British productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| characterPlayed |
Mark Womack
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surface form:
Robbie Lewis
|
| characterPlayedIn |
Colin Dexter
ⓘ
surface form:
Inspector Morse
Lewis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | ITV ⓘ |
| familyName |
Whately, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Whately
|
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
ⓘ
stage acting ⓘ television acting ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Kevin ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | British television ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Kevin Whately self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portraying Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in Inspector Morse
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portraying Robbie Lewis in Lewis ⓘ |
| notableRole | Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Colin Dexter
ⓘ
surface form:
Inspector Morse
Lewis ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | British actors ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| 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: Kevin Whately Description of subject: Kevin Whately is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in the television series "Inspector Morse" and its spin-off "Lewis."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.