Colin O'Donoghue
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Colin O'Donoghue is an Irish actor best known for playing Captain Hook/Killian Jones on the television series "Once Upon a Time" and for his work in film and voice acting.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colin O'Donoghue canonical | 1 |
| Colin O’Donoghue | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10467355 — 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: Colin O'Donoghue Context triple: [Luck, voiceCastMember, Colin O'Donoghue]
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A.
Alan Tudyk
Alan Tudyk is an American actor and voice actor known for his versatile character roles in films, television, and animation, including work with Disney and on series like "Firefly."
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B.
Marc Tarpenning
Marc Tarpenning is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla, Inc.
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C.
Tony Amendola
Tony Amendola is an American actor best known for his roles in television series like "Stargate SG-1" and "Once Upon a Time," as well as various film and stage performances.
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D.
Michael Mando
Michael Mando is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Nacho Varga in the television series Better Call Saul and for his work in film and video games such as Far Cry 3.
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E.
Antony Starr
Antony Starr is a New Zealand actor best known for his intense television roles, particularly as the sociopathic superhero Homelander in the series "The Boys."
- 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: Colin O'Donoghue Target entity description: Colin O'Donoghue is an Irish actor best known for playing Captain Hook/Killian Jones on the television series "Once Upon a Time" and for his work in film and voice acting.
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A.
Alan Tudyk
Alan Tudyk is an American actor and voice actor known for his versatile character roles in films, television, and animation, including work with Disney and on series like "Firefly."
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B.
Marc Tarpenning
Marc Tarpenning is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla, Inc.
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C.
Tony Amendola
Tony Amendola is an American actor best known for his roles in television series like "Stargate SG-1" and "Once Upon a Time," as well as various film and stage performances.
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D.
Michael Mando
Michael Mando is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Nacho Varga in the television series Better Call Saul and for his work in film and video games such as Far Cry 3.
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E.
Antony Starr
Antony Starr is a New Zealand actor best known for his intense television roles, particularly as the sociopathic superhero Homelander in the series "The Boys."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeInField |
acting
ⓘ
music ⓘ |
| appearedIn | Once Upon a Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Captain Hook
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Killian Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Kovak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterVoiced | Douxie Casperan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1981-01-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Drogheda Institute of Further Education
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Gaiety School of Acting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | O'Donoghue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Colin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter
ⓘ
son ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Captain Hook on Once Upon a Time ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Enemies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Colin O'Donoghue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableWork | Once Upon a Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ musician ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Drogheda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInAnimatedSeries | Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInFilm |
Storage 24
NERFINISHED
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The Dust Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInTelevisionSeries |
Fair City
NERFINISHED
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Once Upon a Time NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tudors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Helen O'Donoghue 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: Colin O'Donoghue Description of subject: Colin O'Donoghue is an Irish actor best known for playing Captain Hook/Killian Jones on the television series "Once Upon a Time" and for his work in film and voice acting.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.