Richard Rankin
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Richard Rankin is a Scottish actor best known for playing Roger Wakefield MacKenzie in the television series "Outlander."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Rankin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6795799 — 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: Richard Rankin Context triple: [Outlander, castMember, Richard Rankin]
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A.
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
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B.
Richard McIlkenny
Richard McIlkenny was an Irish man wrongfully convicted as one of the Birmingham Six in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, whose case became a landmark example of miscarriages of justice in the UK.
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C.
George Rankin
George Rankin was a British politician and colonial administrator best known for serving on the Simon Commission that reviewed constitutional reforms in British India in the late 1920s.
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D.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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E.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
- 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: Richard Rankin Target entity description: Richard Rankin is a Scottish actor best known for playing Roger Wakefield MacKenzie in the television series "Outlander."
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A.
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
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B.
Richard McIlkenny
Richard McIlkenny was an Irish man wrongfully convicted as one of the Birmingham Six in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, whose case became a landmark example of miscarriages of justice in the UK.
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C.
George Rankin
George Rankin was a British politician and colonial administrator best known for serving on the Simon Commission that reviewed constitutional reforms in British India in the late 1920s.
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D.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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E.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish person
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Burnistoun
NERFINISHED
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Burnistoun’s Big Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Dregs NERFINISHED ⓘ From Darkness NERFINISHED ⓘ Outlander NERFINISHED ⓘ Silent Witness NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crimson Field NERFINISHED ⓘ The House of Him NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ The Replacement NERFINISHED ⓘ The Syndicate NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wyrd NERFINISHED ⓘ Thirteen NERFINISHED ⓘ Trust Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkOf | Diana Gabaldon (via Outlander adaptation) ⓘ |
| birthName | Richard Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Roger Wakefield MacKenzie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Glasgow (local schools)
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Langside College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Starz (for Outlander) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| hasGivenInterviewTo |
BBC
NERFINISHED
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Starz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Colin Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing Roger Wakefield MacKenzie in Outlander ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Richard Rankin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableRole | Roger Wakefield MacKenzie in Outlander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Outlander (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Glasgow, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays | Roger Wakefield MacKenzie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Colin Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Glasgow, Scotland
NERFINISHED
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London, England ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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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: Richard Rankin Description of subject: Richard Rankin is a Scottish actor best known for playing Roger Wakefield MacKenzie in the television series "Outlander."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.