Brendan Gleeson
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Brendan Gleeson is an acclaimed Irish actor known for his powerful character roles in films such as In Bruges, The Guard, and the Harry Potter series.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brendan Gleeson canonical | 30 |
| Brian Gleeson | 1 |
| Colm Doherty – Brendan Gleeson | 1 |
| Domhnall Gleeson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T995742 — 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: Brendan Gleeson Context triple: [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, castMember, Brendan Gleeson]
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A.
Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell is an Irish actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "In Bruges," "Phone Booth," and "The Banshees of Inisherin."
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B.
Colm Feore
Colm Feore is a Canadian-American actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in works like "Bon Cop, Bad Cop," "The Chronicles of Riddick," and numerous Stratford Festival productions.
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C.
Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel Byrne is an Irish actor known for his nuanced performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in works like "The Usual Suspects" and the HBO series "In Treatment."
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D.
Colm Meaney
Colm Meaney is an Irish actor best known for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, as well as numerous film and television appearances.
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E.
Andrew Scott
Andrew Scott is an Irish actor known for his acclaimed stage work and screen roles, including his portrayal of Moriarty in "Sherlock" and appearances in films such as "1917."
- 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: Brendan Gleeson Target entity description: Brendan Gleeson is an acclaimed Irish actor known for his powerful character roles in films such as In Bruges, The Guard, and the Harry Potter series.
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A.
Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell is an Irish actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "In Bruges," "Phone Booth," and "The Banshees of Inisherin."
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B.
Colm Feore
Colm Feore is a Canadian-American actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in works like "Bon Cop, Bad Cop," "The Chronicles of Riddick," and numerous Stratford Festival productions.
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C.
Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel Byrne is an Irish actor known for his nuanced performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in works like "The Usual Suspects" and the HBO series "In Treatment."
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D.
Colm Meaney
Colm Meaney is an Irish actor best known for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, as well as numerous film and television appearances.
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E.
Andrew Scott
Andrew Scott is an Irish actor known for his acclaimed stage work and screen roles, including his portrayal of Moriarty in "Sherlock" and appearances in films such as "1917."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Brendan Gleeson Description of subject: Brendan Gleeson is an acclaimed Irish actor known for his powerful character roles in films such as In Bruges, The Guard, and the Harry Potter series.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Domhnall Gleeson
this entity surface form:
Brian Gleeson
this entity surface form:
Colm Doherty – Brendan Gleeson
subject surface form:
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