James Wilby
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James Wilby is an English actor known for his roles in period dramas and acclaimed British films such as "Maurice" and "Howards End."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Wilby canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3016765 — 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: James Wilby Context triple: [Gosford Park, starring, James Wilby]
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A.
Andrew Whitham
Andrew Whitham is a distinguished geoscientist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, as evidenced by his receipt of the William Smith Medal.
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B.
Ben Wilkinson
Ben Wilkinson is a British poet, critic, and academic known for his contemporary poetry collections and contributions to literary journalism.
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C.
Ian Meakins
Ian Meakins is a British business executive known for leading major multinational companies, including serving as chairman of Unilever.
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D.
Jack Hildyard
Jack Hildyard was a British cinematographer renowned for his work on classic films, including the Academy Award-winning "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
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E.
Ian Bryce
Ian Bryce is a British film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters such as Saving Private Ryan and the Transformers series.
- 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: James Wilby Target entity description: James Wilby is an English actor known for his roles in period dramas and acclaimed British films such as "Maurice" and "Howards End."
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A.
Andrew Whitham
Andrew Whitham is a distinguished geoscientist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, as evidenced by his receipt of the William Smith Medal.
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B.
Ben Wilkinson
Ben Wilkinson is a British poet, critic, and academic known for his contemporary poetry collections and contributions to literary journalism.
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C.
Ian Meakins
Ian Meakins is a British business executive known for leading major multinational companies, including serving as chairman of Unilever.
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D.
Jack Hildyard
Jack Hildyard was a British cinematographer renowned for his work on classic films, including the Academy Award-winning "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
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E.
Ian Bryce
Ian Bryce is a British film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters such as Saving Private Ryan and the Transformers series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White British ⓘ |
| familyName | Wilby ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
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television acting ⓘ theatre acting ⓘ |
| genre | period drama ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| knownFor |
role in the film "Howards End"
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role in the film "Maurice" ⓘ roles in British period dramas ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | James Wilby self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Howards End
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Maurice ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | British film industry ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | 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: James Wilby Description of subject: James Wilby is an English actor known for his roles in period dramas and acclaimed British films such as "Maurice" and "Howards End."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.