Alan Cox
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Alan Cox is a British actor best known for his early role as Dr. Watson in the film "Young Sherlock Holmes" and for a varied career in film, television, and theatre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan Cox canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14709132 — 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: Alan Cox Context triple: [Young Sherlock Holmes, leadActor, Alan Cox]
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A.
Alan Cox
Alan Cox is a prominent British software engineer best known for his extensive work on the Linux kernel and long-standing contributions to the free software movement.
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B.
Jimmy Cox
Jimmy Cox was an early 20th-century American songwriter best known for penning the classic blues standard "Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out."
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C.
Alan Emmott
Alan Emmott was a Canadian municipal politician who served as mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
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D.
Stan Cullimore
Stan Cullimore is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the 1980s indie pop band The Housemartins.
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E.
Michael Graham Cox
Michael Graham Cox was a British actor best known for his voice and character roles in film, television, and radio, including work on animated adaptations of classic literature.
- 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: Alan Cox Target entity description: Alan Cox is a British actor best known for his early role as Dr. Watson in the film "Young Sherlock Holmes" and for a varied career in film, television, and theatre.
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A.
Alan Cox
Alan Cox is a prominent British software engineer best known for his extensive work on the Linux kernel and long-standing contributions to the free software movement.
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B.
Jimmy Cox
Jimmy Cox was an early 20th-century American songwriter best known for penning the classic blues standard "Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out."
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C.
Alan Emmott
Alan Emmott was a Canadian municipal politician who served as mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
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D.
Stan Cullimore
Stan Cullimore is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the 1980s indie pop band The Housemartins.
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E.
Michael Graham Cox
Michael Graham Cox was a British actor best known for his voice and character roles in film, television, and radio, including work on animated adaptations of classic literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.