Ian Shaw
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Ian Shaw is a British actor and writer, known for his stage and screen work and for being the son of acclaimed actor Robert Shaw.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ian Shaw canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6071316 — 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 Shaw Context triple: [Robert Archibald Shaw, child, Ian Shaw]
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A.
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw is an American professional baseball player and power-hitting outfielder/first baseman who played college baseball at Boston College before reaching Major League Baseball.
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B.
Shaun Parkes
Shaun Parkes is a British actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in series such as "Casanova," "Doctor Who," and "Small Axe."
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C.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is a musician best known as the drummer for the British rock band King Crimson and for his extensive work as a session and touring drummer.
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D.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is a musician best known as the drummer for the New Zealand rock band The Warriors.
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E.
Ian Crafford
Ian Crafford is a film editor best known for his work on the James Bond movie "Never Say Never Again."
- 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 Shaw Target entity description: Ian Shaw is a British actor and writer, known for his stage and screen work and for being the son of acclaimed actor Robert Shaw.
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A.
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw is an American professional baseball player and power-hitting outfielder/first baseman who played college baseball at Boston College before reaching Major League Baseball.
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B.
Shaun Parkes
Shaun Parkes is a British actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in series such as "Casanova," "Doctor Who," and "Small Axe."
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C.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is a musician best known as the drummer for the British rock band King Crimson and for his extensive work as a session and touring drummer.
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D.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is a musician best known as the drummer for the New Zealand rock band The Warriors.
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E.
Ian Crafford
Ian Crafford is a film editor best known for his work on the James Bond movie "Never Say Never Again."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ playwright ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | The Shark Is Broken ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Joseph Nixon ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| father | Robert Shaw ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Ure ⓘ |
| notableRole | Robert Shaw in The Shark Is Broken ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Casualty
ⓘ
EastEnders ⓘ Hedda Gabler (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
Hedda Gabler
Johnny English Reborn ⓘ Medics ⓘ
linked to:
Medic
Much Ado About Nothing (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
Othello: A Play in Black and White
Sharpe ⓘ Silent Witness ⓘ The Bill ⓘ The Boys in the Band (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Boys in the Band
The Cherry Orchard (stage production) ⓘ The Contract ⓘ
linked to:
The Contract (2006 film)
The Country Wife (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Country Wife (stage)
The Duchess of Malfi (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Duchess of Malfi
The Good Soul of Szechuan (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Good Person of Szechwan
The Iceman Cometh (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Iceman Cometh
The Importance of Being Earnest (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Merchant of Venice (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Merchant of Venice
The Play What I Wrote ⓘ The Queen ⓘ The Recruiting Officer (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Recruiting Officer (play)
The Romans in Britain (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Romans in Britain
The Seagull (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Seagull
The Shark Is Broken ⓘ The Taming of the Shrew (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
stage production "The Tempest"
The Winterling (stage production) ⓘ Three Sisters (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
Three Sisters
War Horse (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
War Horse (play)
Widows (2018 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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playwright ⓘ writer ⓘ |
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 Shaw Description of subject: Ian Shaw is a British actor and writer, known for his stage and screen work and for being the son of acclaimed actor Robert Shaw.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.