Jonathan Miller
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Jonathan Miller was a British theatre and opera director, author, and former physician best known as a member of the pioneering 1960s satirical revue "Beyond the Fringe."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Miller canonical | 10 |
| Sir Jonathan Miller | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9016927 — 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: Jonathan Miller Context triple: [Alan Bennett, co-starredWith, Jonathan Miller]
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A.
William Kneale
William Kneale was a British philosopher and logician best known for his influential work on the history and philosophy of logic, particularly as co-author of "The Development of Logic."
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B.
James Grenning
James Grenning is a software engineer, author, and trainer known for his contributions to Agile development practices and embedded software engineering.
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C.
Mark Rampion
Mark Rampion is a central character in Aldous Huxley’s novel "Point Counter Point," often seen as a semi-autobiographical figure representing the author’s artistic and philosophical ideals.
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D.
John Sutherland
John Sutherland is a prominent British literary critic and scholar known for his extensive work on Victorian literature and popular literary history.
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E.
Kenneth Hyman
Kenneth Hyman is a film producer best known for his work on the classic World War II action film "The Dirty Dozen."
- 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: Jonathan Miller Target entity description: Jonathan Miller was a British theatre and opera director, author, and former physician best known as a member of the pioneering 1960s satirical revue "Beyond the Fringe."
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A.
William Kneale
William Kneale was a British philosopher and logician best known for his influential work on the history and philosophy of logic, particularly as co-author of "The Development of Logic."
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B.
James Grenning
James Grenning is a software engineer, author, and trainer known for his contributions to Agile development practices and embedded software engineering.
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C.
Mark Rampion
Mark Rampion is a central character in Aldous Huxley’s novel "Point Counter Point," often seen as a semi-autobiographical figure representing the author’s artistic and philosophical ideals.
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D.
John Sutherland
John Sutherland is a prominent British literary critic and scholar known for his extensive work on Victorian literature and popular literary history.
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E.
Kenneth Hyman
Kenneth Hyman is a film producer best known for his work on the classic World War II action film "The Dirty Dozen."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
physician ⓘ satirist ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
ⓘ
Knight Bachelor ⓘ |
| birthName | Jonathan Wolfe Miller ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications of Alzheimer’s disease ⓘ |
| co-starredWith |
Alan Bennett
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Dudley Moore ⓘ Peter Cook ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ⓘ
linked to:
United Kingdom
|
| dateOfBirth | 1934-07-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019-11-27 ⓘ |
| directedFor |
English National Opera
ⓘ
Glyndebourne Festival Opera ⓘ
linked to:
Glyndebourne
Metropolitan Opera ⓘ National Theatre, London ⓘ
linked to:
National Theatre in London
Old Vic Theatre ⓘ Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
St John’s College, Cambridge
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St Paul’s School, London ⓘ
linked to:
St Paul's School, London
University College Hospital Medical School ⓘ
linked to:
UCL Medical School
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| fieldOfWork |
medicine
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opera ⓘ satire ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative opera productions
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pioneering 1960s satirical revue Beyond the Fringe ⓘ television documentaries on science and the arts ⓘ |
| memberOf | Beyond the Fringe ⓘ |
| name | Jonathan Miller ⓘ |
| notableProduction |
Rigoletto (Mafia-style production for English National Opera)
ⓘ
linked to:
Rigoletto
The Merchant of Venice (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Merchant of Venice
The Mikado (English National Opera production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Mikado
|
| notableWork | Beyond the Fringe ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
broadcaster ⓘ opera director ⓘ physician ⓘ television presenter ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | St John’s Wood, London, England ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | London, England ⓘ |
| presented | The Body in Question (television series) ⓘ |
| wrote |
On Reflection
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Subsequent Performances ⓘ The Body in Question ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Miller Description of subject: Jonathan Miller was a British theatre and opera director, author, and former physician best known as a member of the pioneering 1960s satirical revue "Beyond the Fringe."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jonathan Miller