Eric Porter
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Eric Porter was a distinguished English actor best known for his classical stage work and prominent roles in British television and film during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Porter canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9112411 — 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: Eric Porter Context triple: [Jim Moriarty, portrayedBy, Eric Porter]
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A.
Chris Porter
Chris Porter is a music producer best known for his work on the hit song "Back for Good" by Take That.
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B.
John Porter
John Porter is a British record producer and musician best known for his work on influential blues and rock albums.
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C.
Ben Porterfield
Ben Porterfield is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the business intelligence and data analytics company Looker.
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D.
Carl Porter
Carl Porter is a character from the television series "Revenge," known as the son of Amanda Clarke and Jack Porter.
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E.
Scott Porter
Scott Porter is an American actor best known for his roles on television series such as "Friday Night Lights" and "Hart of Dixie."
- 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: Eric Porter Target entity description: Eric Porter was a distinguished English actor best known for his classical stage work and prominent roles in British television and film during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Chris Porter
Chris Porter is a music producer best known for his work on the hit song "Back for Good" by Take That.
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B.
John Porter
John Porter is a British record producer and musician best known for his work on influential blues and rock albums.
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C.
Ben Porterfield
Ben Porterfield is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the business intelligence and data analytics company Looker.
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D.
Carl Porter
Carl Porter is a character from the television series "Revenge," known as the son of Amanda Clarke and Jack Porter.
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E.
Scott Porter
Scott Porter is an American actor best known for his roles on television series such as "Friday Night Lights" and "Hart of Dixie."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English person
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Porter ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
classical theatre
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Eric Porter ⓘ |
| nationality |
British
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English ⓘ |
| notability | distinguished English actor of the mid-20th century ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hands of the Ripper
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Nicholas and Alexandra ⓘ Shakespearean roles ⓘ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ⓘ The Day of the Jackal ⓘ The Forsyte Saga ⓘ The Jewel in the Crown ⓘ The Lost Continent ⓘ The Winslow Boy ⓘ West End theatre productions ⓘ
linked to:
London theatre
classical stage roles ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
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: Eric Porter Description of subject: Eric Porter was a distinguished English actor best known for his classical stage work and prominent roles in British television and film during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.