Eddie Izzard
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Eddie Izzard is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and political activist known for her surreal, improvisational style and prominent work in both comedy and drama.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eddie Izzard canonical | 12 |
| Edward John Izzard | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T710508 — 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: Eddie Izzard Context triple: [University of Sheffield, hasNotableAlumni, Eddie Izzard]
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A.
Eric Idle
Eric Idle is an English comedian, actor, writer, and musician best known as one of the core members of the influential British surreal comedy group Monty Python.
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B.
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen is a British comedian, actor, and writer best known for creating and portraying satirical characters such as Ali G, Borat, and Brüno.
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C.
Lewis Black
Lewis Black is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author best known for his angry, rant-filled style of political and social commentary.
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D.
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry is a British actor, comedian, writer, and broadcaster known for his work in television, film, literature, and radio, as well as his wit and public intellectual presence.
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E.
Steve Coogan
Steve Coogan is an English actor, comedian, writer, and producer known for his character Alan Partridge and a wide range of film and television roles.
- 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: Eddie Izzard Target entity description: Eddie Izzard is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and political activist known for her surreal, improvisational style and prominent work in both comedy and drama.
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A.
Eric Idle
Eric Idle is an English comedian, actor, writer, and musician best known as one of the core members of the influential British surreal comedy group Monty Python.
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B.
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen is a British comedian, actor, and writer best known for creating and portraying satirical characters such as Ali G, Borat, and Brüno.
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C.
Lewis Black
Lewis Black is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author best known for his angry, rant-filled style of political and social commentary.
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D.
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry is a British actor, comedian, writer, and broadcaster known for his work in television, film, literature, and radio, as well as his wit and public intellectual presence.
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E.
Steve Coogan
Steve Coogan is an English actor, comedian, writer, and producer known for his character Alan Partridge and a wide range of film and television roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ political activist ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Suzy Izzard ⓘ |
| birthName |
Eddie Izzard
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Edward John Izzard
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1962-02-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Eastbourne College
ⓘ
St John’s School, Porthcawl ⓘ University of Sheffield ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
ⓘ
politics ⓘ stand-up comedy ⓘ |
| genderIdentity | transgender woman ⓘ |
| hasPerformedInLanguage |
Arabic
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English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Italian ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Turkish ⓘ Welsh ⓘ |
| hasRunForOffice |
Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central
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Member of the European Parliament for London ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Eddie Izzard self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | completed multiple marathon runs for charity ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Circle
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Definite Article ⓘ Dressed to Kill ⓘ Force Majeure ⓘ Glorious ⓘ Hannibal (TV series) – referenced/alternate continuity ⓘ
surface form:
Hannibal (TV series)
Mystery Men ⓘ Ocean's Thirteen ⓘ
surface form:
Ocean’s Thirteen
Ocean's Twelve ⓘ
surface form:
Ocean’s Twelve
Shadow of the Vampire ⓘ Stripped ⓘ The Riches ⓘ Valkyrie (2008 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Valkyrie
|
| occupation |
film actor
ⓘ
producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| parent |
Dorothy Ella Izzard
ⓘ
Harold John Izzard ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Aden
ⓘ
Colony of Aden ⓘ
surface form:
Aden Colony
Yemen ⓘ
surface form:
present-day Yemen
|
| politicalAffiliation | Labour Party (UK) ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| sexualOrientation | openly gender-fluid / transgender ⓘ |
| sibling | Mark Izzard ⓘ |
| style |
improvisational comedy
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surreal comedy ⓘ |
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: Eddie Izzard Description of subject: Eddie Izzard is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and political activist known for her surreal, improvisational style and prominent work in both comedy and drama.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edward John Izzard