Thea Sharrock
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feature film
film
film director
person
stage play
television director
television series
theatre director
Thea Sharrock is a British theatre and film director known for her acclaimed stage productions and for directing the feature film "Me Before You."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thea Sharrock canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T864395 — 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: Thea Sharrock Context triple: [Cause Célèbre, notableRevivalDirector, Thea Sharrock]
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A.
Joanna Blunt
Joanna Blunt is the mother of British actress Emily Blunt and a member of the Blunt family connected to the entertainment industry.
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B.
Lisa Harrow
Lisa Harrow is a New Zealand-born actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in Australian and British productions.
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C.
Victoria Tennant
Victoria Tennant is a British actress known for her work in film and television, including roles in "L.A. Story" and the miniseries "The Winds of War."
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D.
Sheena Shirley Orr
Sheena Shirley Orr, better known as Sheena Easton, is a Scottish singer and actress who rose to international fame in the 1980s with hits like "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" and "For Your Eyes Only."
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E.
Marta Thomas
Marta Thomas was the wife of Polish military leader and interwar statesman Eduard Rydz-Śmigły.
- 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: Thea Sharrock Target entity description: Thea Sharrock is a British theatre and film director known for her acclaimed stage productions and for directing the feature film "Me Before You."
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A.
Joanna Blunt
Joanna Blunt is the mother of British actress Emily Blunt and a member of the Blunt family connected to the entertainment industry.
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B.
Lisa Harrow
Lisa Harrow is a New Zealand-born actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in Australian and British productions.
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C.
Victoria Tennant
Victoria Tennant is a British actress known for her work in film and television, including roles in "L.A. Story" and the miniseries "The Winds of War."
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D.
Sheena Shirley Orr
Sheena Shirley Orr, better known as Sheena Easton, is a Scottish singer and actress who rose to international fame in the 1980s with hits like "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" and "For Your Eyes Only."
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E.
Marta Thomas
Marta Thomas was the wife of Polish military leader and interwar statesman Eduard Rydz-Śmigły.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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film ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ stage play ⓘ stage play ⓘ stage play ⓘ stage play ⓘ stage play ⓘ stage play ⓘ stage play ⓘ television director ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| author | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Olivier Award for Best Revival for "After the Dance" (as director of the production) ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Me Before You
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surface form:
novel "Me Before You" by Jojo Moyes
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directedFilm | Me Before You ⓘ |
| directedPlay |
After the Dance
ⓘ
Equus ⓘ Henry V (play) ⓘ
surface form:
Henry V
Heroes ⓘ The Emperor Jones ⓘ Le Misanthrope ⓘ
surface form:
The Misanthrope
The Sunshine Boys ⓘ |
| directedTelevision |
Call the Midwife
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The Hollow Crown ⓘ The One and Only Ivan ⓘ |
| director |
Thea Sharrock
self-linksurface differs
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Thea Sharrock self-linksurface differs ⓘ Thea Sharrock self-linksurface differs ⓘ Thea Sharrock self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing stage productions in London
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directing the feature film "Me Before You" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
stage production of "After the Dance" at the National Theatre
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stage revival of "Equus" starring Daniel Radcliffe ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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television director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| playwright |
Eugene O'Neill
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Molière ⓘ Neil Simon ⓘ Peter Shaffer ⓘ Terence Rattigan ⓘ Tom Stoppard ⓘ |
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: Thea Sharrock Description of subject: Thea Sharrock is a British theatre and film director known for her acclaimed stage productions and for directing the feature film "Me Before You."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Me Before You
subject surface form:
The Hollow Crown
subject surface form:
Call the Midwife
subject surface form:
The One and Only Ivan