Sebastian Shaw
E420914
Sebastian Shaw was an English actor best known to modern audiences for portraying the unmasked Anakin Skywalker in the original release of Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sebastian Shaw canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4209181 — 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: Sebastian Shaw Context triple: [Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, starred, Sebastian Shaw]
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A.
Anthony Skingsley
Anthony Skingsley was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command during the late 20th century, overseeing key aspects of the UK's air defense.
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B.
Gary Harkness
Gary Harkness is the introspective college football player and narrator of Don DeLillo’s novel "End Zone," through whom themes of war, language, and existential anxiety are explored.
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C.
Daniel Grayson
Daniel Grayson is a central character in the TV drama "Revenge," known as the wealthy and conflicted heir of the powerful Grayson family.
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D.
Sebastian Blunt
Sebastian Blunt is a British actor and the brother of acclaimed actress Emily Blunt.
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E.
Sebastian Henshaw
Sebastian Henshaw is a suave and skilled British intelligence agent who becomes entangled in a chaotic international espionage adventure in the action-comedy film "The Spy Who Dumped Me."
- 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: Sebastian Shaw Target entity description: Sebastian Shaw was an English actor best known to modern audiences for portraying the unmasked Anakin Skywalker in the original release of Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi.
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A.
Anthony Skingsley
Anthony Skingsley was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command during the late 20th century, overseeing key aspects of the UK's air defense.
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B.
Gary Harkness
Gary Harkness is the introspective college football player and narrator of Don DeLillo’s novel "End Zone," through whom themes of war, language, and existential anxiety are explored.
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C.
Daniel Grayson
Daniel Grayson is a central character in the TV drama "Revenge," known as the wealthy and conflicted heir of the powerful Grayson family.
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D.
Sebastian Blunt
Sebastian Blunt is a British actor and the brother of acclaimed actress Emily Blunt.
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E.
Sebastian Henshaw
Sebastian Henshaw is a suave and skilled British intelligence agent who becomes entangled in a chaotic international espionage adventure in the action-comedy film "The Spy Who Dumped Me."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920s ⓘ |
| appearedIn | Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Sebastian Lewis Shaw ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Brighton, East Sussex, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| child | Drusilla Shaw ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | Second World War ONNED1 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1905-05-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1994-12-23 ⓘ |
| directed | stage productions ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Gresham's School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White British ⓘ |
| familyName | Shaw ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
Shakespearean drama
ⓘ
classical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Sebastian ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying the unmasked Anakin Skywalker in the original release of Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| name | Sebastian Shaw self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
director ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Holt, Norfolk
ⓘ
surface form:
Holt, Norfolk, England
|
| placeOfDeath | Brighton, East Sussex, England ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Anakin Skywalker
ⓘ
Darth Vader ⓘ
surface form:
Darth Vader (unmasked)
|
| residence | Brighton, East Sussex, England ONNED1 ⓘ |
| spouse |
Margaret Delamere
ⓘ
Martine Alexis ONNED1 ⓘ |
| theatreAffiliation | Royal Shakespeare Company ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| wrote | plays ⓘ |
| yearOfFilmReleaseAssociated | 1983 ⓘ |
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: Sebastian Shaw Description of subject: Sebastian Shaw was an English actor best known to modern audiences for portraying the unmasked Anakin Skywalker in the original release of Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.