David Haig
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David Haig is a British actor and playwright known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in comedies and period dramas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Haig canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8155754 — 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 Haig Context triple: [Two Weeks Notice, castMember, David Haig]
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A.
Roy Kinnear
Roy Kinnear was a British character actor known for his comic roles in film and television, including notable performances in movies like "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" and various Richard Lester films.
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B.
Michael Caton-Jones
Michael Caton-Jones is a Scottish film director known for works such as "Scandal," "Rob Roy," and "The Jackal."
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C.
Martin Clunes
Martin Clunes is an English actor and comedian best known for his lead role in the television series "Doc Martin" and his work on the sitcom "Men Behaving Badly."
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D.
Reggie Brown
Reggie Brown is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Snapchat, the multimedia messaging app developed by Snap Inc.
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E.
Jeffrey Bell
Jeffrey Bell is an American television writer and producer known for his work on genre series such as Angel, Alias, and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- 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 Haig Target entity description: David Haig is a British actor and playwright known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in comedies and period dramas.
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A.
Roy Kinnear
Roy Kinnear was a British character actor known for his comic roles in film and television, including notable performances in movies like "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" and various Richard Lester films.
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B.
Michael Caton-Jones
Michael Caton-Jones is a Scottish film director known for works such as "Scandal," "Rob Roy," and "The Jackal."
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C.
Martin Clunes
Martin Clunes is an English actor and comedian best known for his lead role in the television series "Doc Martin" and his work on the sitcom "Men Behaving Badly."
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D.
Reggie Brown
Reggie Brown is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Snapchat, the multimedia messaging app developed by Snap Inc.
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E.
Jeffrey Bell
Jeffrey Bell is an American television writer and producer known for his work on genre series such as Angel, Alias, and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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comedy actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ playwright ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Laurence Olivier Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
|
| educatedAt | London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| hasPartInTheEnsembleOf |
Four Weddings and a Funeral
NERFINISHED
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Kinky Boots (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ My Boy Jack NERFINISHED ⓘ Pressure ⓘ The Madness of King George NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thin Blue Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Weeks Notice NERFINISHED ⓘ Yes, Prime Minister (stage adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
British television comedy
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comedy roles ⓘ period dramas ⓘ stage performances in the West End ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Four Weddings and a Funeral
NERFINISHED
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Kinky Boots (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ My Boy Jack NERFINISHED ⓘ Pressure NERFINISHED ⓘ The 39 Steps (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Madness of King George NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thin Blue Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Weeks Notice NERFINISHED ⓘ Yes, Prime Minister (stage adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
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 Haig Description of subject: David Haig is a British actor and playwright known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in comedies and period dramas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.