Tim Pigott-Smith
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Tim Pigott-Smith was a British character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in works like "The Jewel in the Crown" and numerous period dramas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tim Pigott-Smith canonical | 3 |
| Maggie Smith | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1009917 — 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: Tim Pigott-Smith Context triple: [The Remains of the Day, castMember, Tim Pigott-Smith]
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A.
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter is an acclaimed English actress known for her versatile performances in both period dramas and eccentric contemporary roles, including frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
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B.
Harriet Walter
Harriet Walter is an acclaimed English actress known for her extensive work in classical theatre, film, and television, including prominent roles in adaptations of Jane Austen and in series such as "Succession" and "Killing Eve."
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C.
Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith is a renowned English actress celebrated for her versatile performances across film, television, and stage, including iconic roles in "Downton Abbey" and the "Harry Potter" series.
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D.
Imelda Staunton
Imelda Staunton is an acclaimed English actress known for her versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in the Harry Potter series and numerous award-winning stage productions.
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E.
Anne-Marie Duff
Anne-Marie Duff is an acclaimed English actress known for her powerful performances in television dramas such as "Shameless" and "The Virgin Queen," as well as in film and theatre.
- 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: Tim Pigott-Smith Target entity description: Tim Pigott-Smith was a British character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in works like "The Jewel in the Crown" and numerous period dramas.
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A.
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter is an acclaimed English actress known for her versatile performances in both period dramas and eccentric contemporary roles, including frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
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B.
Harriet Walter
Harriet Walter is an acclaimed English actress known for her extensive work in classical theatre, film, and television, including prominent roles in adaptations of Jane Austen and in series such as "Succession" and "Killing Eve."
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C.
Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith is a renowned English actress celebrated for her versatile performances across film, television, and stage, including iconic roles in "Downton Abbey" and the "Harry Potter" series.
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D.
Imelda Staunton
Imelda Staunton is an acclaimed English actress known for her versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in the Harry Potter series and numerous award-winning stage productions.
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E.
Anne-Marie Duff
Anne-Marie Duff is an acclaimed English actress known for her powerful performances in television dramas such as "Shameless" and "The Virgin Queen," as well as in film and theatre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Tim Pigott-Smith Description of subject: Tim Pigott-Smith was a British character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in works like "The Jewel in the Crown" and numerous period dramas.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maggie Smith