Martin Compston
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Martin Compston is a Scottish actor best known for his breakout role in Ken Loach’s film "Sweet Sixteen" and for starring as Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott in the TV series "Line of Duty."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martin Compston canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10917704 — 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: Martin Compston Context triple: [Sweet Sixteen, stars, Martin Compston]
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A.
Thomas Turgoose
Thomas Turgoose is an English actor best known for his breakthrough role in the film "This Is England" and subsequent work in British independent cinema.
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B.
Stephen Dillane
Stephen Dillane is a British actor known for his nuanced performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in "Game of Thrones," "The Tunnel," and "The Hours."
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C.
Ian Hanmore
Ian Hanmore is a Scottish character actor known for his work in British film and television, including roles in series like Game of Thrones and Doctor Who.
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D.
Frank Dillane
Frank Dillane is an English actor best known for his role as Nick Clark in the television series "Fear the Walking Dead" and for playing young Tom Riddle in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
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E.
James Groves
James Groves is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Groves.
- 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: Martin Compston Target entity description: Martin Compston is a Scottish actor best known for his breakout role in Ken Loach’s film "Sweet Sixteen" and for starring as Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott in the TV series "Line of Duty."
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A.
Thomas Turgoose
Thomas Turgoose is an English actor best known for his breakthrough role in the film "This Is England" and subsequent work in British independent cinema.
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B.
Stephen Dillane
Stephen Dillane is a British actor known for his nuanced performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in "Game of Thrones," "The Tunnel," and "The Hours."
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C.
Ian Hanmore
Ian Hanmore is a Scottish character actor known for his work in British film and television, including roles in series like Game of Thrones and Doctor Who.
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D.
Frank Dillane
Frank Dillane is an English actor best known for his role as Nick Clark in the television series "Fear the Walking Dead" and for playing young Tom Riddle in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
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E.
James Groves
James Groves is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Groves.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 2002 ⓘ |
| awardReceived | British Academy Scotland Award for Best Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1984-05-08 ⓘ |
| familyName | Compston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm1341001 ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying complex working-class characters ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Martin Compston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Filth NERFINISHED ⓘ Line of Duty NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Queen of Scots NERFINISHED ⓘ Monarch of the Glen NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Road NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweet Sixteen NERFINISHED ⓘ The Disappearance of Alice Creed NERFINISHED ⓘ The Nest NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wee Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Traces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
former professional footballer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Greenock
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Inverclyde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCharacter |
Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott in Line of Duty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Liam in Sweet Sixteen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor | Greenock Morton F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Greenock
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Las Vegas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| spouse | Tianna Chanel Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith | Ken Loach 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: Martin Compston Description of subject: Martin Compston is a Scottish actor best known for his breakout role in Ken Loach’s film "Sweet Sixteen" and for starring as Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott in the TV series "Line of Duty."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.