Sir David Paradine Frost
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Sir David Paradine Frost was a prominent British television host, journalist, and satirist best known for his incisive political interviews, including the landmark 1977 interviews with former U.S. President Richard Nixon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sir David Paradine Frost canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3473386 — 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: Sir David Paradine Frost Context triple: [David Frost, fullName, Sir David Paradine Frost]
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A.
Christopher Murray Grieve
Christopher Murray Grieve was a Scottish poet, journalist, and key figure in the Scottish Renaissance, best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid.
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B.
Sir John Kingman
Sir John Kingman is a prominent British mathematician and statistician renowned for his foundational work in probability theory, including the development of Kingman’s coalescent.
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C.
Peter Wooldridge Townsend
Peter Wooldridge Townsend was a British Royal Air Force officer and World War II flying ace best known for his postwar role as equerry to King George VI and his romantic relationship with Princess Margaret.
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D.
Francis Michael Gough
Francis Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for playing Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films directed by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher.
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E.
Geoffrey Palmer
Geoffrey Palmer is a New Zealand lawyer, academic, and politician who served as the country’s Prime Minister in the late 1980s.
- 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: Sir David Paradine Frost Target entity description: Sir David Paradine Frost was a prominent British television host, journalist, and satirist best known for his incisive political interviews, including the landmark 1977 interviews with former U.S. President Richard Nixon.
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A.
Christopher Murray Grieve
Christopher Murray Grieve was a Scottish poet, journalist, and key figure in the Scottish Renaissance, best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid.
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B.
Sir John Kingman
Sir John Kingman is a prominent British mathematician and statistician renowned for his foundational work in probability theory, including the development of Kingman’s coalescent.
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C.
Peter Wooldridge Townsend
Peter Wooldridge Townsend was a British Royal Air Force officer and World War II flying ace best known for his postwar role as equerry to King George VI and his romantic relationship with Princess Margaret.
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D.
Francis Michael Gough
Francis Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for playing Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films directed by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher.
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E.
Geoffrey Palmer
Geoffrey Palmer is a New Zealand lawyer, academic, and politician who served as the country’s Prime Minister in the late 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
broadcaster
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ producer ⓘ satirist ⓘ television presenter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2013 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960 ⓘ |
| almaMater | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BAFTA Fellowship
ⓘ
Emmy Award ⓘ Knight Bachelor ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1939-04-07 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Tenterden
ⓘ
surface form:
Tenterden, Kent, England
|
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| child |
George Frost
ⓘ
Miles Frost ⓘ Wilfred Frost ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2013-08-31 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Cambridge University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Al Jazeera English
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BBC ⓘ ITV ⓘ London Weekend Television ⓘ
surface form:
LWT (London Weekend Television)
TV-am ⓘ |
| familyName | Frost ⓘ |
| fullName | Sir David Paradine Frost self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| genre |
current affairs
ⓘ
political satire ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Paradine ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
1977 television interviews with Richard Nixon
ⓘ
political interviews ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Breakfast with Frost
ⓘ
Frost Over the World ⓘ Frost on Sunday ⓘ The Nixon Interviews ⓘ
surface form:
Frost/Nixon interviews
That Was the Week That Was ⓘ The Frost Report ⓘ The Nixon Interviews ⓘ
surface form:
The Nixon Interviews (1977)
Through the Keyhole ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
comedian
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ producer ⓘ satirist ⓘ television presenter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
MS Queen Elizabeth (cruise ship)
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near Southampton, England ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard
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Lynne Frederick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sir David Paradine Frost Description of subject: Sir David Paradine Frost was a prominent British television host, journalist, and satirist best known for his incisive political interviews, including the landmark 1977 interviews with former U.S. President Richard Nixon.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
David Frost