Sean Lock
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Sean Lock was a British comedian and panel show regular known for his surreal wit and long-running team captain role on "8 Out of 10 Cats."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sean Lock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10588541 — 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: Sean Lock Context triple: [QI, notableGuest, Sean Lock]
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A.
Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up, podcast appearances, and character roles in television and film.
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B.
Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt is an English comedian, actor, musician, and writer best known as one half of the surreal comedy duo behind The Mighty Boosh.
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C.
Hugh Dennis
Hugh Dennis is a British comedian, actor, and writer best known for his work on the sketch show "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" and the sitcom "Outnumbered."
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D.
Griff Rhys Jones
Griff Rhys Jones is a British comedian, actor, writer, and television presenter known for his work in sketch comedy, particularly alongside Mel Smith, and for hosting various documentary and travel programs.
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E.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
- 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: Sean Lock Target entity description: Sean Lock was a British comedian and panel show regular known for his surreal wit and long-running team captain role on "8 Out of 10 Cats."
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A.
Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up, podcast appearances, and character roles in television and film.
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B.
Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt is an English comedian, actor, musician, and writer best known as one half of the surreal comedy duo behind The Mighty Boosh.
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C.
Hugh Dennis
Hugh Dennis is a British comedian, actor, and writer best known for his work on the sketch show "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" and the sitcom "Outnumbered."
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D.
Griff Rhys Jones
Griff Rhys Jones is a British comedian, actor, writer, and television presenter known for his work in sketch comedy, particularly alongside Mel Smith, and for hosting various documentary and travel programs.
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E.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy panel show participant
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human ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2021 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
8 Out of 10 Cats
NERFINISHED
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8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown NERFINISHED ⓘ Have I Got News for You NERFINISHED ⓘ Live at the Apollo NERFINISHED ⓘ QI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | British Comedy Award for Best Live Comic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-04-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-08-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | St John the Baptist School, Woking NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Sean Lock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
deadpan comedy
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observational comedy ⓘ surreal humour ⓘ |
| givenName | Sean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0516812 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
panel show appearances
ⓘ
surreal wit ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
15 Storeys High
NERFINISHED
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8 Out of 10 Cats NERFINISHED ⓘ 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown NERFINISHED ⓘ TV Heaven, Telly Hell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ television presenter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chertsey, Surrey, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | England ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats
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team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown ⓘ |
| residence | London, England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Anoushka Nara Giltsoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote | 15 Storeys High 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: Sean Lock Description of subject: Sean Lock was a British comedian and panel show regular known for his surreal wit and long-running team captain role on "8 Out of 10 Cats."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.