Alan Cumming
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Alan Cumming is a Scottish actor, writer, and director known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like "The Good Wife," "Cabaret," and various Hollywood films.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan Cumming canonical | 62 |
| Alan Cumming (in some early stage productions where gender-swapped interpretations occurred) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T597472 — 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: Alan Cumming Context triple: [Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film), starredActor, Alan Cumming]
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Peter Macon
Peter Macon is an American actor best known for playing the Moclan officer Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on the science fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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B.
Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in the television series "Inspector Morse" and its spin-off "Lewis."
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C.
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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D.
Kris Marshall
Kris Marshall is a British actor best known for his comedic and romantic roles in film and television, including prominent parts in Love Actually and the sitcom My Family.
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E.
John Curran
John Curran is an American film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas such as "Chappaquiddick," "We Don't Live Here Anymore," and "The Painted Veil."
- 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: Alan Cumming Target entity description: Alan Cumming is a Scottish actor, writer, and director known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like "The Good Wife," "Cabaret," and various Hollywood films.
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A.
Peter Macon
Peter Macon is an American actor best known for playing the Moclan officer Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on the science fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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B.
Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in the television series "Inspector Morse" and its spin-off "Lewis."
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C.
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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D.
Kris Marshall
Kris Marshall is a British actor best known for his comedic and romantic roles in film and television, including prominent parts in Love Actually and the sitcom My Family.
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E.
John Curran
John Curran is an American film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas such as "Chappaquiddick," "We Don't Live Here Anymore," and "The Painted Veil."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Alan Cumming Description of subject: Alan Cumming is a Scottish actor, writer, and director known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like "The Good Wife," "Cabaret," and various Hollywood films.
Referenced by (63)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nicholas Nickleby
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Burlesque (2010 film)
subject linked to:
GoldenEye (1995 film title inspiration, indirectly)
subject linked to:
2017 film Battle of the Sexes
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X2 (2003 film)
subject linked to:
film GoldenEye
Sally Bowles
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Alan Cumming (in some early stage productions where gender-swapped interpretations occurred)
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linked to: Alan Cumming