Frank Thornton Ball
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Frank Thornton Ball, better known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as Captain Peacock in the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frank Thornton Ball canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11800903 — 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: Frank Thornton Ball Context triple: [Frank Thornton, birthName, Frank Thornton Ball]
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A.
Frank Bannister
Frank Bannister is a psychic investigator and con artist who can see and communicate with ghosts in the horror-comedy film "The Frighteners."
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B.
John Brabourne
John Brabourne was a British film and television producer, known for his adaptations of classic literature and for being the son-in-law of Lord Mountbatten.
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C.
Thomas Pasley
Thomas Pasley was a Royal Navy officer who rose to flag rank during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and saw extensive service in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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D.
George Wootten
George Wootten was an Australian Army lieutenant general who distinguished himself as a senior commander in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War.
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E.
Richard Thorpe
Richard Thorpe was a prolific American film director best known for his long tenure at MGM, where he directed numerous popular features from the 1930s through the 1950s, including classics like "Ivanhoe" and "Knights of the Round Table."
- 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: Frank Thornton Ball Target entity description: Frank Thornton Ball, better known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as Captain Peacock in the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?".
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A.
Frank Bannister
Frank Bannister is a psychic investigator and con artist who can see and communicate with ghosts in the horror-comedy film "The Frighteners."
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B.
John Brabourne
John Brabourne was a British film and television producer, known for his adaptations of classic literature and for being the son-in-law of Lord Mountbatten.
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C.
Thomas Pasley
Thomas Pasley was a Royal Navy officer who rose to flag rank during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and saw extensive service in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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D.
George Wootten
George Wootten was an Australian Army lieutenant general who distinguished himself as a senior commander in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War.
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E.
Richard Thorpe
Richard Thorpe was a prolific American film director best known for his long tenure at MGM, where he directed numerous popular features from the 1930s through the 1950s, including classics like "Ivanhoe" and "Knights of the Round Table."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English actor
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comedian ⓘ human ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Chiswick New Cemetery, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Captain Peacock in Grace & Favour
NERFINISHED
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Captain Stephen Peacock in Are You Being Served? NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbert "Truly" Truelove in Last of the Summer Wine ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | Second World War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1921-01-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2013-03-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Alleyn's School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London School of Dramatic Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White British ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1945 ⓘ |
| militaryService | Royal Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Frank Thornton Ball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAppearance |
Carry On Screaming!
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crooks and Coronets NERFINISHED ⓘ Hancock's Half Hour NERFINISHED ⓘ The Benny Hill Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Goodies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of pompous authority figures in British comedy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Are You Being Served?
NERFINISHED
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Grace & Favour NERFINISHED ⓘ Last of the Summer Wine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 1 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dulwich, London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | London, England ⓘ |
| residence | London, England ⓘ |
| spouse | Beryl Jane Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Frank Thornton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
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radio ⓘ television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1940s–2013 ⓘ |
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: Frank Thornton Ball Description of subject: Frank Thornton Ball, better known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as Captain Peacock in the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?".
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.