Richard Griffiths
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Richard Griffiths was a British character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Withnail & I" and as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" series.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T110074 — 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: Richard Griffiths Context triple: [Sleepy Hollow (1999 film), starring, Richard Griffiths]
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A.
Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including notable performances in classical theatre and numerous film and television roles.
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B.
Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including notable roles in the Harry Potter series, Mike Leigh’s dramas, and various acclaimed British productions.
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C.
Edward Fox
Edward Fox is an English actor renowned for his roles in films such as "The Day of the Jackal" and "A Bridge Too Far."
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D.
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon was an acclaimed Irish-English actor renowned for his powerful stage work and for portraying Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series.
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E.
Michael Palin
Michael Palin is a British comedian, actor, writer, and television presenter best known as a core member of the surreal comedy group Monty Python and later for his acclaimed travel documentaries.
- 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: Richard Griffiths Target entity description: Richard Griffiths was a British character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Withnail & I" and as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" series.
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A.
Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including notable performances in classical theatre and numerous film and television roles.
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B.
Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including notable roles in the Harry Potter series, Mike Leigh’s dramas, and various acclaimed British productions.
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C.
Edward Fox
Edward Fox is an English actor renowned for his roles in films such as "The Day of the Jackal" and "A Bridge Too Far."
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D.
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon was an acclaimed Irish-English actor renowned for his powerful stage work and for portraying Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series.
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E.
Michael Palin
Michael Palin is a British comedian, actor, writer, and television presenter best known as a core member of the surreal comedy group Monty Python and later for his acclaimed travel documentaries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Richard Griffiths Description of subject: Richard Griffiths was a British character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Withnail & I" and as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" series.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Richard Thomas Griffiths
subject surface form:
Uncle Vernon Dursley (Harry Potter film series)
subject surface form:
Uncle Monty
subject surface form:
Hector
this entity surface form:
Richard Griffiths (original National Theatre production)
subject surface form:
Hector
this entity surface form:
Richard Griffiths (original West End production)
subject surface form:
Hector
this entity surface form:
Richard Griffiths (Broadway transfer)
subject surface form:
Henry Crabbe
subject surface form:
King Ralph