Simon Dermott
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Simon Dermott is the charming, clever art expert and thief portrayed by Peter O’Toole in the 1966 heist comedy film "How to Steal a Million."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon Dermott canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7049487 — 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: Simon Dermott Context triple: [How to Steal a Million, mainCharacter, Simon Dermott]
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A.
David DeMott
David DeMott is an American entrepreneur best known as one of the founders behind the creation of the SeaWorld marine theme park concept.
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B.
Phil Jordan
Phil Jordan is a musician best known as a former member of the American rock band No Doubt.
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C.
Sean Whalen
Sean Whalen is an American character actor known for his distinctive, often quirky roles in film and television, including horror and cult favorites.
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D.
Matthew Richardson
Matthew Richardson is a former Australian rules footballer widely regarded as one of Richmond Football Club’s greatest forwards and a fan favourite in the AFL.
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E.
Kevin Stoney
Kevin Stoney was a British character actor best known for his villainous roles in classic science fiction television, particularly in series like Doctor Who.
- 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: Simon Dermott Target entity description: Simon Dermott is the charming, clever art expert and thief portrayed by Peter O’Toole in the 1966 heist comedy film "How to Steal a Million."
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A.
David DeMott
David DeMott is an American entrepreneur best known as one of the founders behind the creation of the SeaWorld marine theme park concept.
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B.
Phil Jordan
Phil Jordan is a musician best known as a former member of the American rock band No Doubt.
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C.
Sean Whalen
Sean Whalen is an American character actor known for his distinctive, often quirky roles in film and television, including horror and cult favorites.
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D.
Matthew Richardson
Matthew Richardson is a former Australian rules footballer widely regarded as one of Richmond Football Club’s greatest forwards and a fan favourite in the AFL.
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E.
Kevin Stoney
Kevin Stoney was a British character actor best known for his villainous roles in classic science fiction television, particularly in series like Doctor Who.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | How to Steal a Million ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | romantic comedy ⓘ |
| characterInFilm | How to Steal a Million ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor | How to Steal a Million ⓘ |
| describedAs |
charming
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clever ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
How to Steal a Million universe
ⓘ
linked to:
How to Steal a Million
|
| genre | heist comedy ⓘ |
| hasCreator | screenwriters of How to Steal a Million ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableWork | How to Steal a Million ⓘ |
| occupation |
art expert
ⓘ
thief ⓘ |
| partOf |
How to Steal a Million cast of characters
ⓘ
linked to:
How to Steal a Million
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| portrayedBy | Peter O'Toole ⓘ |
| yearOfAppearance | 1966 ⓘ |
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: Simon Dermott Description of subject: Simon Dermott is the charming, clever art expert and thief portrayed by Peter O’Toole in the 1966 heist comedy film "How to Steal a Million."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.