Gary Maitland
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Gary Maitland is a Scottish actor best known for his roles in Ken Loach films, including the comedy-drama "The Angels' Share."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gary Maitland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10917842 — 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: Gary Maitland Context triple: [The Angels' Share, stars, Gary Maitland]
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A.
Gordon McIlwham
Gordon McIlwham is a former Scottish rugby union player, best known for his role as a prop and for representing Scotland at international level.
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B.
Gordon Lyon
Gordon Lyon, better known by his pseudonym Fyodor, is a prominent computer security expert and open-source advocate best known for creating the Nmap network scanning tool.
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C.
Grahame Marshall
Grahame Marshall is a biotechnology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the drug discovery company Heptares Therapeutics.
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D.
Barry Maitland
Barry Maitland is an Australian crime novelist best known for his Brock and Kolla detective series.
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E.
Robert McMillan
Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
- 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: Gary Maitland Target entity description: Gary Maitland is a Scottish actor best known for his roles in Ken Loach films, including the comedy-drama "The Angels' Share."
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A.
Gordon McIlwham
Gordon McIlwham is a former Scottish rugby union player, best known for his role as a prop and for representing Scotland at international level.
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B.
Gordon Lyon
Gordon Lyon, better known by his pseudonym Fyodor, is a prominent computer security expert and open-source advocate best known for creating the Nmap network scanning tool.
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C.
Grahame Marshall
Grahame Marshall is a biotechnology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the drug discovery company Heptares Therapeutics.
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D.
Barry Maitland
Barry Maitland is an Australian crime novelist best known for his Brock and Kolla detective series.
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E.
Robert McMillan
Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
British cinema
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Scottish cinema ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directorWorkedWith | Ken Loach ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
comedy-drama films
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drama films ⓘ |
| knownFor | roles in Ken Loach films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ken Loach films
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My Name Is Joe ⓘ Sweet Sixteen ⓘ The Angels' Share ⓘ The Angels' Share (2012 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Angels' Share
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| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| workLocation | Scotland ⓘ |
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: Gary Maitland Description of subject: Gary Maitland is a Scottish actor best known for his roles in Ken Loach films, including the comedy-drama "The Angels' Share."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.