Tom Bell
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Tom Bell was a British character actor known for his intense, gritty performances in film and television from the 1960s onward.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Bell canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4696136 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Bell Context triple: [The Krays, stars, Tom Bell]
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A.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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B.
Brian Bell
Brian Bell is a British economist and academic who serves as the chair of the UK government’s Migration Advisory Committee, advising on immigration policy.
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C.
Brian Bell
Brian Bell is an American musician best known as the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the rock band Weezer.
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D.
Mick Rogers
Mick Rogers is an Australian former professional road cyclist known for his time-trialling strength and multiple world championship titles in the team time trial.
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E.
Gary Puckett
Gary Puckett is an American pop singer best known as the lead vocalist of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, a band popular in the late 1960s for hits like "Young Girl."
- 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: Tom Bell Target entity description: Tom Bell was a British character actor known for his intense, gritty performances in film and television from the 1960s onward.
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A.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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B.
Brian Bell
Brian Bell is a British economist and academic who serves as the chair of the UK government’s Migration Advisory Committee, advising on immigration policy.
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C.
Brian Bell
Brian Bell is an American musician best known as the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the rock band Weezer.
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D.
Mick Rogers
Mick Rogers is an Australian former professional road cyclist known for his time-trialling strength and multiple world championship titles in the team time trial.
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E.
Gary Puckett
Gary Puckett is an American pop singer best known as the lead vocalist of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, a band popular in the late 1960s for hits like "Young Girl."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| awardNomination | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Thomas George Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| child | Aran Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coStarredWith |
Gary Oldman
NERFINISHED
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Helen Mirren NERFINISHED ⓘ Julie Christie NERFINISHED ⓘ Lesley Sharp NERFINISHED ⓘ Paddy Considine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-08-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-10-04 ⓘ |
| education |
Gateway Grammar School, Leicester
NERFINISHED
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | English ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| knownFor |
gritty performances
ⓘ
intense performances ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Tom Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying complex, often troubled characters ⓘ |
| notableRole | Bill Otley in Prime Suspect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dead Man's Shoes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Prime Suspect NERFINISHED ⓘ Regeneration NERFINISHED ⓘ The Krays NERFINISHED ⓘ The L-Shaped Room NERFINISHED ⓘ Wish You Were Here NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Liverpool, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Brighton, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Brighton, England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ |
| spouse | Lois Daine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
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: Tom Bell Description of subject: Tom Bell was a British character actor known for his intense, gritty performances in film and television from the 1960s onward.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.