Denis Lawson
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Denis Lawson is a Scottish actor best known for roles such as Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy and numerous performances in British television and theatre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Denis Lawson canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2651407 — 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: Denis Lawson Context triple: [Bleak House (2005 TV serial), stars, Denis Lawson]
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A.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
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B.
Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan is a television and film composer best known for his atmospheric scores on series such as "Castle" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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C.
David Langford
David Langford is a British science fiction author, critic, and fan writer renowned for his long-running fanzine "Ansible" and his multiple Hugo Awards for fan writing.
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D.
David Farrar
David Farrar is a Canadian academic and administrator who serves as the president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University.
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E.
Alan Stewart
Alan Stewart is a cinematographer known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with director Guy Ritchie.
- 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: Denis Lawson Target entity description: Denis Lawson is a Scottish actor best known for roles such as Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy and numerous performances in British television and theatre.
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A.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
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B.
Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan is a television and film composer best known for his atmospheric scores on series such as "Castle" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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C.
David Langford
David Langford is a British science fiction author, critic, and fan writer renowned for his long-running fanzine "Ansible" and his multiple Hugo Awards for fan writing.
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D.
David Farrar
David Farrar is a Canadian academic and administrator who serves as the president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University.
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E.
Alan Stewart
Alan Stewart is a cinematographer known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with director Guy Ritchie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Denis Lawson Description of subject: Denis Lawson is a Scottish actor best known for roles such as Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy and numerous performances in British television and theatre.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bleak House (2005 TV serial)