David Hemmings
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David Hemmings was an English actor, director, and producer best known for his breakout role in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film "Blow-Up" and his prolific work in British and international cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Hemmings canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7294641 — 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: David Hemmings Context triple: [The Love Machine, starring, David Hemmings]
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A.
Oliver Reed
Oliver Reed was a British actor known for his intense screen presence and roles in films such as "Oliver!", "Women in Love," and his final performance in "Gladiator."
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B.
Nicol Williamson
Nicol Williamson was a Scottish actor acclaimed for his intense stage and screen performances, notably in roles such as Merlin in "Excalibur" and the title character in "Hamlet."
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C.
Laurence Harvey
Laurence Harvey was a Lithuanian-born British actor best known for his intense performances in films such as "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Room at the Top."
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D.
Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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E.
Anthony Stewart Head
Anthony Stewart Head is a British actor best known for playing the Watcher Rupert Giles on the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
- 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: David Hemmings Target entity description: David Hemmings was an English actor, director, and producer best known for his breakout role in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film "Blow-Up" and his prolific work in British and international cinema.
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A.
Oliver Reed
Oliver Reed was a British actor known for his intense screen presence and roles in films such as "Oliver!", "Women in Love," and his final performance in "Gladiator."
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B.
Nicol Williamson
Nicol Williamson was a Scottish actor acclaimed for his intense stage and screen performances, notably in roles such as Merlin in "Excalibur" and the title character in "Hamlet."
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C.
Laurence Harvey
Laurence Harvey was a Lithuanian-born British actor best known for his intense performances in films such as "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Room at the Top."
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D.
Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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E.
Anthony Stewart Head
Anthony Stewart Head is a British actor best known for playing the Watcher Rupert Giles on the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2003 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| child | Nolan Hemmings ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-11-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2003-12-03 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Hemmings ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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thriller film ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | David Hemmings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Barbarella
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Blow-Up ⓘ Camelot ⓘ Gangs of New York ⓘ Gladiator ⓘ The Charge of the Light Brigade ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
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Guildford ⓘ Surrey ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Bucharest
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Romania ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Gayle Hunnicutt
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Lucy Williams ⓘ Prudence de Casembroot ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Airwolf
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Barbarella ⓘ Blow-Up ⓘ Camelot ⓘ Gangs of New York ⓘ Gladiator ⓘ Magnum, P.I. ⓘ Race for the Yankee Zephyr ⓘ The A-Team ⓘ The Charge of the Light Brigade ⓘ |
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: David Hemmings Description of subject: David Hemmings was an English actor, director, and producer best known for his breakout role in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film "Blow-Up" and his prolific work in British and international cinema.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.