Marshall Lancaster
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Marshall Lancaster is a British actor best known for his role as DC Chris Skelton in the television series "Life on Mars" and its sequel "Ashes to Ashes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marshall Lancaster canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10396273 — 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: Marshall Lancaster Context triple: [Life on Mars, leadActor, Marshall Lancaster]
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A.
Marshall Harvey
Marshall Harvey is a film editor best known for his work on movies such as the dark comedy "The 'Burbs."
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B.
Scott Marshall
Scott Marshall is an American film and television director known for his work on comedies and for being the son of filmmaker Garry Marshall.
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C.
Brian Marshall
Brian Marshall was a British actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the crime thriller "The Long Good Friday."
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D.
Marshall Pease
Marshall Pease is a computer scientist best known for co-authoring the seminal paper that introduced the Byzantine Generals Problem in distributed computing and fault tolerance.
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E.
Anthony McHenry
Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
- 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: Marshall Lancaster Target entity description: Marshall Lancaster is a British actor best known for his role as DC Chris Skelton in the television series "Life on Mars" and its sequel "Ashes to Ashes."
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A.
Marshall Harvey
Marshall Harvey is a film editor best known for his work on movies such as the dark comedy "The 'Burbs."
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B.
Scott Marshall
Scott Marshall is an American film and television director known for his work on comedies and for being the son of filmmaker Garry Marshall.
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C.
Brian Marshall
Brian Marshall was a British actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the crime thriller "The Long Good Friday."
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D.
Marshall Pease
Marshall Pease is a computer scientist best known for co-authoring the seminal paper that introduced the Byzantine Generals Problem in distributed computing and fault tolerance.
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E.
Anthony McHenry
Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st-century acting ⓘ |
| characterRole |
DC Chris Skelton
ⓘ
linked to:
Chris Skelton
|
| citizenship | British ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | British people ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drama
ⓘ
performing arts ⓘ television drama ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| hasWorkIn |
British television
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| knownFor |
role as DC Chris Skelton in Ashes to Ashes
ⓘ
role as DC Chris Skelton in Life on Mars ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Marshall Lancaster ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of a 1970s/1980s police officer ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ashes to Ashes
ⓘ
Life on Mars ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
cast of Ashes to Ashes
ⓘ
cast of Life on Mars ⓘ |
| portrayed |
DC Chris Skelton
ⓘ
linked to:
Chris Skelton
|
| workLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Marshall Lancaster Description of subject: Marshall Lancaster is a British actor best known for his role as DC Chris Skelton in the television series "Life on Mars" and its sequel "Ashes to Ashes."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.