Andrew Macdonald
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Andrew Macdonald is a British film producer best known for his collaborations with director Danny Boyle on acclaimed films such as "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Andrew Macdonald canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2350742 — 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: Andrew Macdonald Context triple: [28 Days Later, producer, Andrew Macdonald]
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A.
Mark MacGuigan
Mark MacGuigan was a Canadian Liberal politician, law professor, and federal cabinet minister who notably served as Canada’s Secretary of State for External Affairs in the early 1980s.
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B.
Fergus McMaster
Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman best known as a co-founder and early chairman of Qantas, helping to establish it as a pioneering national airline.
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C.
Angus Campbell
Angus Campbell is a senior Australian Army officer who has served as Chief of the Defence Force.
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D.
Donald Meek
Donald Meek was a Scottish-born American character actor known for his distinctive, mild-mannered roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Dan Peter McKenzie
Dan Peter McKenzie is a British geophysicist renowned as one of the founders of plate tectonic theory and a leading figure in solid Earth geophysics.
- 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: Andrew Macdonald Target entity description: Andrew Macdonald is a British film producer best known for his collaborations with director Danny Boyle on acclaimed films such as "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later."
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A.
Mark MacGuigan
Mark MacGuigan was a Canadian Liberal politician, law professor, and federal cabinet minister who notably served as Canada’s Secretary of State for External Affairs in the early 1980s.
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B.
Fergus McMaster
Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman best known as a co-founder and early chairman of Qantas, helping to establish it as a pioneering national airline.
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C.
Angus Campbell
Angus Campbell is a senior Australian Army officer who has served as Chief of the Defence Force.
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D.
Donald Meek
Donald Meek was a Scottish-born American character actor known for his distinctive, mild-mannered roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Dan Peter McKenzie
Dan Peter McKenzie is a British geophysicist renowned as one of the founders of plate tectonic theory and a leading figure in solid Earth geophysics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | DNA Films ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Alex Garland
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Danny Boyle ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | DNA Films ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film production ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
horror film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | collaborations with Danny Boyle ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
28 Days Later
ⓘ
28 Weeks Later ⓘ A Life Less Ordinary ⓘ Annihilation ⓘ Dredd (2012 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Dredd
Ex Machina ⓘ Never Let Me Go (screenplay) ⓘ
surface form:
Never Let Me Go
Shallow Grave ⓘ Sunshine ⓘ T2 Trainspotting ⓘ The Beach ⓘ The Descent ⓘ The Last King of Scotland ⓘ Trainspotting (1996 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Trainspotting
|
| occupation | film producer ⓘ |
| relative | Emeric Pressburger ⓘ |
| sibling | Kevin Macdonald ⓘ |
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: Andrew Macdonald Description of subject: Andrew Macdonald is a British film producer best known for his collaborations with director Danny Boyle on acclaimed films such as "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.