Father Michael Kerrigan – Sean Bean
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Father Michael Kerrigan is the troubled Catholic priest at the center of the BBC drama "Broken," portrayed by actor Sean Bean.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Father Michael Kerrigan – Sean Bean canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10844907 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Father Michael Kerrigan – Sean Bean Context triple: [Broken, characterPortrayedBy, Father Michael Kerrigan – Sean Bean]
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A.
Father Michael Logan
Father Michael Logan is the tormented Catholic priest protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "I Confess," bound by the secrecy of the confessional even as he is suspected of murder.
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B.
Father Brennan
Father Brennan is a tormented priest in the 1976 horror film "The Omen" who desperately tries to warn the protagonists about the demonic nature of their child.
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C.
John Michael Murphy in Father Murphy
John Michael Murphy in Father Murphy is the compassionate frontier schoolteacher and central character of the early-1980s American Western drama series Father Murphy.
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D.
Father Jerry Connolly
Father Jerry Connolly is a principled Catholic priest and childhood friend of gangster Rocky Sullivan in the classic crime film "Angels with Dirty Faces," serving as the story’s moral conscience and dramatic counterpoint to Rocky’s criminal life.
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E.
Brother Geraghty
Brother Geraghty is a supporting character in the 2014 comedy-drama film "St. Vincent," serving as a Catholic school teacher who interacts with the young protagonist.
- 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: Father Michael Kerrigan – Sean Bean Target entity description: Father Michael Kerrigan is the troubled Catholic priest at the center of the BBC drama "Broken," portrayed by actor Sean Bean.
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A.
Father Michael Logan
Father Michael Logan is the tormented Catholic priest protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "I Confess," bound by the secrecy of the confessional even as he is suspected of murder.
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B.
Father Brennan
Father Brennan is a tormented priest in the 1976 horror film "The Omen" who desperately tries to warn the protagonists about the demonic nature of their child.
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C.
John Michael Murphy in Father Murphy
John Michael Murphy in Father Murphy is the compassionate frontier schoolteacher and central character of the early-1980s American Western drama series Father Murphy.
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D.
Father Jerry Connolly
Father Jerry Connolly is a principled Catholic priest and childhood friend of gangster Rocky Sullivan in the classic crime film "Angels with Dirty Faces," serving as the story’s moral conscience and dramatic counterpoint to Rocky’s criminal life.
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E.
Brother Geraghty
Brother Geraghty is a supporting character in the 2014 comedy-drama film "St. Vincent," serving as a Catholic school teacher who interacts with the young protagonist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
BBC television drama Broken
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Broken ⓘ |
| countryOfSetting | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Jimmy McGovern ⓘ |
| debutYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastOn | BBC One ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
compassionate
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conflicted ⓘ troubled ⓘ |
| helps | parishioners facing social and moral problems ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| network | BBC One ⓘ |
| occupation | Catholic priest ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Sean Bean ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfWork | LA Productions ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| settingType | parish priest in a working-class community ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
crisis of faith
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institutional issues in the Catholic Church ⓘ personal trauma ⓘ |
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: Father Michael Kerrigan – Sean Bean Description of subject: Father Michael Kerrigan is the troubled Catholic priest at the center of the BBC drama "Broken," portrayed by actor Sean Bean.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.