Neil Pearson
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Neil Pearson is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, including prominent roles in series like "Drop the Dead Donkey" and "Between the Lines."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neil Pearson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2246202 — 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 Pearson Context triple: [Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, stars, Neil Pearson]
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A.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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B.
Geoff Petrie
Geoff Petrie is a former American professional basketball guard best known as an early star for the Portland Trail Blazers and later a longtime NBA executive.
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C.
Eric Pearson
Eric Pearson is an American screenwriter best known for his work on Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including writing the screenplay for "Thor: Ragnarok."
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D.
Nigel Birch
Nigel Birch was a British Conservative politician and government minister who held several senior posts in the mid-20th century, including roles in economic and defense-related departments.
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E.
Colin Goudie
Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
- 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 Pearson Target entity description: Neil Pearson is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, including prominent roles in series like "Drop the Dead Donkey" and "Between the Lines."
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A.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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B.
Geoff Petrie
Geoff Petrie is a former American professional basketball guard best known as an early star for the Portland Trail Blazers and later a longtime NBA executive.
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C.
Eric Pearson
Eric Pearson is an American screenwriter best known for his work on Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including writing the screenplay for "Thor: Ragnarok."
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D.
Nigel Birch
Nigel Birch was a British Conservative politician and government minister who held several senior posts in the mid-20th century, including roles in economic and defense-related departments.
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E.
Colin Goudie
Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Pearson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
television comedy
ⓘ
television drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Neil ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Neil Pearson self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All the Small Things
ⓘ
Between the Lines ⓘ Bridget Jones’s Diary ⓘ
surface form:
Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (film) ⓘ
surface form:
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Drop the Dead Donkey ⓘ Trevor's World of Sport ⓘ Waterloo Road ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
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 Pearson Description of subject: Neil Pearson is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, including prominent roles in series like "Drop the Dead Donkey" and "Between the Lines."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason