Katherine Parkinson
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Katherine Parkinson is a British actress best known for her comedic roles in television series such as "The IT Crowd" and "Doc Martin," as well as her work in film and theatre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Katherine Parkinson canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8153620 — 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: Katherine Parkinson Context triple: [Pirate Radio, castMember, Katherine Parkinson]
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A.
Eleanor Tomlinson
Eleanor Tomlinson is an English actress best known for her roles in films like Jack the Giant Slayer and the television series Poldark.
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B.
Frances Ruffelle
Frances Ruffelle is an English musical theatre actress and singer best known for originating the role of Éponine in the West End and Broadway productions of Les Misérables, for which she won a Tony Award.
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C.
Jane Horrocks
Jane Horrocks is an English actress and voice artist known for her distinctive voice and roles in film, television, and theatre, including the sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous" and the film "Little Voice."
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D.
Hannah Waddingham
Hannah Waddingham is an English actress and singer best known internationally for her Emmy-winning role as Rebecca Welton in the television series "Ted Lasso."
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E.
Julia Sawalha
Julia Sawalha is a British actress best known for her roles in television series such as "Absolutely Fabulous" and "Pride and Prejudice," as well as for voicing Ginger in the animated film "Chicken Run."
- 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: Katherine Parkinson Target entity description: Katherine Parkinson is a British actress best known for her comedic roles in television series such as "The IT Crowd" and "Doc Martin," as well as her work in film and theatre.
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A.
Eleanor Tomlinson
Eleanor Tomlinson is an English actress best known for her roles in films like Jack the Giant Slayer and the television series Poldark.
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B.
Frances Ruffelle
Frances Ruffelle is an English musical theatre actress and singer best known for originating the role of Éponine in the West End and Broadway productions of Les Misérables, for which she won a Tony Award.
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C.
Jane Horrocks
Jane Horrocks is an English actress and voice artist known for her distinctive voice and roles in film, television, and theatre, including the sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous" and the film "Little Voice."
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D.
Hannah Waddingham
Hannah Waddingham is an English actress and singer best known internationally for her Emmy-winning role as Rebecca Welton in the television series "Ted Lasso."
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E.
Julia Sawalha
Julia Sawalha is a British actress best known for her roles in television series such as "Absolutely Fabulous" and "Pride and Prejudice," as well as for voicing Ginger in the animated film "Chicken Run."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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comedian ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| almaMater |
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St Hilda’s College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for The IT Crowd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| BAFTAAwardYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1978-03-09 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
England
ⓘ
Hounslow NERFINISHED ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Jen Barber
NERFINISHED
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Laura Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Pauline Lamb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedIn |
Jen Barber in The IT Crowd
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Laura Hawkins in Humans NERFINISHED ⓘ Pauline Lamb in Doc Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St Hilda’s College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Parkinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Katherine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | 2 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Defending the Guilty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Doc Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ Home, I’m Darling NERFINISHED ⓘ Humans NERFINISHED ⓘ The Honourable Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ The IT Crowd NERFINISHED ⓘ The IT Crowd Live NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kennedys (2015 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Katherine Parkinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Doc Martin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Home, I’m Darling NERFINISHED ⓘ Humans NERFINISHED ⓘ The Honourable Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ The IT Crowd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ film actress ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| partner | Harry Peacock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Harry Peacock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Katherine Parkinson Description of subject: Katherine Parkinson is a British actress best known for her comedic roles in television series such as "The IT Crowd" and "Doc Martin," as well as her work in film and theatre.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.