Paul Brannigan
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Paul Brannigan is a Scottish actor best known for his breakout role in Ken Loach’s film "The Angels’ Share" and subsequent appearances in British cinema and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Brannigan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6868927 — 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: Paul Brannigan Context triple: [Edie, starring, Paul Brannigan]
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A.
Thomas Conway
Thomas Conway was an 18th-century Irish-born soldier who served as a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and was a central figure in the so-called "Conway Cabal" against George Washington.
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B.
Phil Burke
Phil Burke is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Mickey McGinnes on the television drama series "Hell on Wheels."
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C.
John Rooney
John Rooney is a powerful Irish-American mob boss and father figure to the protagonist in the crime drama film "Road to Perdition."
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D.
John Rooney
John Rooney is an American sportscaster best known for his long career as a Major League Baseball radio play-by-play announcer, including work with the St. Louis Cardinals and previously the Chicago White Sox.
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E.
Tom Kilpatrick
Tom Kilpatrick was a screenwriter best known for his work on the 1940 science fiction horror film "Dr. Cyclops."
- 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: Paul Brannigan Target entity description: Paul Brannigan is a Scottish actor best known for his breakout role in Ken Loach’s film "The Angels’ Share" and subsequent appearances in British cinema and television.
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A.
Thomas Conway
Thomas Conway was an 18th-century Irish-born soldier who served as a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and was a central figure in the so-called "Conway Cabal" against George Washington.
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B.
Phil Burke
Phil Burke is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Mickey McGinnes on the television drama series "Hell on Wheels."
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C.
John Rooney
John Rooney is a powerful Irish-American mob boss and father figure to the protagonist in the crime drama film "Road to Perdition."
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D.
John Rooney
John Rooney is an American sportscaster best known for his long career as a Major League Baseball radio play-by-play announcer, including work with the St. Louis Cardinals and previously the Chicago White Sox.
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E.
Tom Kilpatrick
Tom Kilpatrick was a screenwriter best known for his work on the 1940 science fiction horror film "Dr. Cyclops."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer |
British film industry
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British television industry ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
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drama ⓘ |
| knownFor | role in The Angels’ Share ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beyond
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By Any Means ⓘ Homefront ⓘ Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy ⓘ River City ⓘ Sunshine on Leith ⓘ The Angels’ Share ⓘ
linked to:
The Angels' Share
The Wee Man ⓘ Under the Skin ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Scotland
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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: Paul Brannigan Description of subject: Paul Brannigan is a Scottish actor best known for his breakout role in Ken Loach’s film "The Angels’ Share" and subsequent appearances in British cinema and television.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.