Nathan Appleby
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Nathan Appleby is the troubled Victorian psychologist and landowner at the center of the British supernatural drama series "The Living and the Dead."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nathan Appleby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11460417 — 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: Nathan Appleby Context triple: [Colin Morgan, playedCharacter, Nathan Appleby]
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A.
Nathan Gardner
Nathan Gardner is an educational administrator who serves as a school principal.
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B.
Nathan Gardner
Nathan Gardner is a person known primarily as a relative of Susan Gardner.
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C.
Andrew Lapham
Andrew Lapham is a Canadian businessman known for his marriage to politician Caroline Mulroney and his work in finance and private equity.
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D.
Anthony Peckham
Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
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E.
Nicholas Baker
Nicholas Baker is a relatively uncommon personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
- 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: Nathan Appleby Target entity description: Nathan Appleby is the troubled Victorian psychologist and landowner at the center of the British supernatural drama series "The Living and the Dead."
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A.
Nathan Gardner
Nathan Gardner is an educational administrator who serves as a school principal.
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B.
Nathan Gardner
Nathan Gardner is a person known primarily as a relative of Susan Gardner.
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C.
Andrew Lapham
Andrew Lapham is a Canadian businessman known for his marriage to politician Caroline Mulroney and his work in finance and private equity.
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D.
Anthony Peckham
Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
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E.
Nicholas Baker
Nicholas Baker is an alternate name associated with Niels Bohr, the pioneering Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Living and the Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfSetting | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator |
Ashley Pharoah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matthew Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Appleby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Living and the Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | psychology ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Living and the Dead, Series 1 Episode 1 ⓘ |
| fullName | Nathan Appleby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | supernatural drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Nathan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
connected to village folklore
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experiences hauntings ⓘ struggles with reality ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
intense
ⓘ
obsessive ⓘ rational ⓘ troubled ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Charlotte Appleby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasThemeInStoryArc | conflict between science and superstition ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
grief
ⓘ
madness ⓘ supernatural experiences ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation |
landowner
ⓘ
psychologist ⓘ |
| originalNetworkOfWork | BBC One NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Colin Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Shepzoy House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residenceType | rural estate ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Victorian era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Charlotte Appleby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | The Living and the Dead (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Somerset (fictional rural community) 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: Nathan Appleby Description of subject: Nathan Appleby is the troubled Victorian psychologist and landowner at the center of the British supernatural drama series "The Living and the Dead."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.