John Normington
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John Normington was an English character actor known for his extensive work in British television, film, and theatre, including multiple appearances in the Doctor Who franchise.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Normington canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3378209 — 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: John Normington Context triple: [The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords, featuresActor, John Normington]
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A.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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B.
John Brotherton
John Brotherton is an American actor known for his roles in horror films like "The Conjuring" and television series such as "Fuller House."
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C.
William Lambton
William Lambton was a British army officer and surveyor best known for initiating and leading the early phases of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
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D.
John Raithby
John Raithby was a British legal writer and editor best known for his work on authoritative compilations of English statutes in the early 19th century.
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E.
William Orlamond
William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
- 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: John Normington Target entity description: John Normington was an English character actor known for his extensive work in British television, film, and theatre, including multiple appearances in the Doctor Who franchise.
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A.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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B.
John Brotherton
John Brotherton is an American actor known for his roles in horror films like "The Conjuring" and television series such as "Fuller House."
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C.
William Lambton
William Lambton was a British army officer and surveyor best known for initiating and leading the early phases of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
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D.
John Raithby
John Raithby was a British legal writer and editor best known for his work on authoritative compilations of English statutes in the early 19th century.
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E.
William Orlamond
William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: John Normington Description of subject: John Normington was an English character actor known for his extensive work in British television, film, and theatre, including multiple appearances in the Doctor Who franchise.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.