Mark Lester
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Mark Lester is a British former child actor best known for playing the title role in the 1968 musical film "Oliver!".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Lester canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11172666 — 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: Mark Lester Context triple: [Oliver!, starring, Mark Lester]
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A.
Jon Lovett
Jon Lovett is an American podcaster, comedian, and former speechwriter best known as a co-founder and host of the political podcast network Crooked Media and its flagship show "Pod Save America."
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B.
Michael Coulter
Michael Coulter is a British cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the romantic comedy "Love Actually."
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C.
Todd Stewart
Todd Stewart is a collegiate sports administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at Western Kentucky University.
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D.
Ron Stewart
Ron Stewart was a standout Canadian Football League running back best known for his long and successful career with the Ottawa Rough Riders.
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E.
Eric Costello
Eric Costello is a technology entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the workplace communication platform Slack.
- 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: Mark Lester Target entity description: Mark Lester is a British former child actor best known for playing the title role in the 1968 musical film "Oliver!".
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A.
Jon Lovett
Jon Lovett is an American podcaster, comedian, and former speechwriter best known as a co-founder and host of the political podcast network Crooked Media and its flagship show "Pod Save America."
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B.
Michael Coulter
Michael Coulter is a British cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the romantic comedy "Love Actually."
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C.
Todd Stewart
Todd Stewart is a collegiate sports administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at Western Kentucky University.
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D.
Ron Stewart
Ron Stewart was a standout Canadian Football League running back best known for his long and successful career with the Ottawa Rough Riders.
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E.
Eric Costello
Eric Costello is a technology entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the workplace communication platform Slack.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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child actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ musical film ⓘ |
| appearedInFilm |
Eyewitness (1970 film)
NERFINISHED
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Melody NERFINISHED ⓘ Night Hair Child NERFINISHED ⓘ Run Wild, Run Free NERFINISHED ⓘ Scalawag NERFINISHED ⓘ The Prince and the Pauper (1977 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Who Slew Auntie Roo? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Mark A. Letzer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-07-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Corona Theatre School
NERFINISHED
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Tower House School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| genre | film ⓘ |
| hairColor | blond ⓘ |
| hasClaimed | may be biological father of one of Michael Jackson's children ⓘ |
| hasGivenInterviewAbout | friendship with Michael Jackson ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Trudi Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing the title role in the 1968 film Oliver! ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| laterCareer |
opened clinic in Cheltenham
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trained as osteopath ⓘ |
| name | Mark Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableRole | Oliver Twist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Oliver! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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acupuncturist ⓘ osteopath ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInFilm | Oliver! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter |
Prince Edward
NERFINISHED
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Tom Canty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1968 ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Cheltenham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jane Lester
NERFINISHED
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Lisa Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActiveAsActor | 1964–1977 ⓘ |
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: Mark Lester Description of subject: Mark Lester is a British former child actor best known for playing the title role in the 1968 musical film "Oliver!".
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.