Neil Cross
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Neil Cross is a British novelist and screenwriter best known for creating the acclaimed crime drama television series "Luther."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neil Cross canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1748367 — 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: Neil Cross Context triple: [Luther, creator, Neil Cross]
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A.
Michael Gough
Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
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B.
Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in the television series "Inspector Morse" and its spin-off "Lewis."
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C.
Martin Clunes
Martin Clunes is an English actor and comedian best known for his lead role in the television series "Doc Martin" and his work on the sitcom "Men Behaving Badly."
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D.
Nigel Havers
Nigel Havers is an English actor best known for his suave, upper-class roles in film and television, including his acclaimed performance in the Oscar-winning drama "Chariots of Fire."
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E.
Laurence Fox
Laurence Fox is an English actor and political activist known for his role in the TV series "Lewis" and for his outspoken, often controversial public commentary.
- 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: Neil Cross Target entity description: Neil Cross is a British novelist and screenwriter best known for creating the acclaimed crime drama television series "Luther."
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A.
Michael Gough
Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
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B.
Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in the television series "Inspector Morse" and its spin-off "Lewis."
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C.
Martin Clunes
Martin Clunes is an English actor and comedian best known for his lead role in the television series "Doc Martin" and his work on the sitcom "Men Behaving Badly."
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D.
Nigel Havers
Nigel Havers is an English actor best known for his suave, upper-class roles in film and television, including his acclaimed performance in the Oscar-winning drama "Chariots of Fire."
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E.
Laurence Fox
Laurence Fox is an English actor and political activist known for his role in the TV series "Lewis" and for his outspoken, often controversial public commentary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelist
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Crime Writers Association Dagger nomination
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Edgar Award ⓘ |
| basedIn | Wellington ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
New Zealand
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creatorOf | Luther ⓘ |
| employer | BBC ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
thriller fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Always the Sun
ⓘ
Burial ⓘ Captured ⓘ Christendom ⓘ Doctor Who episodes "Hide" ⓘ Doctor Who episodes "The Rings of Akhaten" ⓘ Hard Sun ⓘ Heartland ⓘ Holloway Falls ⓘ Luther ⓘ Luther: The Fallen Sun ⓘ
surface form:
Luther: The Calling
Mama ⓘ Mr In-Between ⓘ Natural History ⓘ Spooks ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| screenwriterFor |
Doctor Who
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Hard Sun ⓘ Luther ⓘ Mama ⓘ Spooks ⓘ |
| spouse | Nadine Cross ⓘ |
| wrote |
Always the Sun
ⓘ
Burial ⓘ Captured ⓘ Christendom ⓘ Heartland ⓘ Holloway Falls ⓘ Luther: The Fallen Sun ⓘ
surface form:
Luther: The Calling
Mr In-Between ⓘ Natural History ⓘ |
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: Neil Cross Description of subject: Neil Cross is a British novelist and screenwriter best known for creating the acclaimed crime drama television series "Luther."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.