Roy Boulting
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Roy Boulting was a British film director and producer, best known for the satirical and socially conscious films he made with his twin brother John Boulting from the 1940s to the 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roy Boulting canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5141358 — 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: Roy Boulting Context triple: [Hayley Mills, spouse, Roy Boulting]
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A.
Bernard Fox
Bernard Fox was a Welsh character actor best known for his comedic roles in classic television series like "Bewitched" and "Hogan's Heroes," as well as voice work in animated films.
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B.
Leo Genn
Leo Genn was a British actor and barrister known for his distinguished, authoritative screen presence in mid-20th-century films.
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C.
Colin Clive
Colin Clive was a British actor best known for his iconic portrayal of Dr. Henry Frankenstein in the classic 1930s horror films "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein."
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D.
Herbert Marshall
Herbert Marshall was a distinguished English stage and film actor known for his suave, gentlemanly screen presence in classic Hollywood cinema of the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Michael Wilding
Michael Wilding was a British film and stage actor best known for his roles in 1940s–1950s British cinema and for his high-profile marriage to actress Elizabeth Taylor.
- 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: Roy Boulting Target entity description: Roy Boulting was a British film director and producer, best known for the satirical and socially conscious films he made with his twin brother John Boulting from the 1940s to the 1970s.
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A.
Bernard Fox
Bernard Fox was a Welsh character actor best known for his comedic roles in classic television series like "Bewitched" and "Hogan's Heroes," as well as voice work in animated films.
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B.
Leo Genn
Leo Genn was a British actor and barrister known for his distinguished, authoritative screen presence in mid-20th-century films.
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C.
Colin Clive
Colin Clive was a British actor best known for his iconic portrayal of Dr. Henry Frankenstein in the classic 1930s horror films "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein."
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D.
Herbert Marshall
Herbert Marshall was a distinguished English stage and film actor known for his suave, gentlemanly screen presence in classic Hollywood cinema of the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Michael Wilding
Michael Wilding was a British film and stage actor best known for his roles in 1940s–1950s British cinema and for his high-profile marriage to actress Elizabeth Taylor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| child | Crispian Mills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War II
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surface form:
Second World War
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-11-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2001-11-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Reading School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Boulting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
satire
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social problem film ⓘ |
| givenName | Roy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryService | Royal Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Roy Boulting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Academy Award for Best Story
NERFINISHED
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BAFTA Award for Best British Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brighton Rock
NERFINISHED
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Heavens Above! NERFINISHED ⓘ I'm All Right Jack NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucky Jim NERFINISHED ⓘ Private's Progress NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Days to Noon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Family Way NERFINISHED ⓘ The Guinea Pig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Berkshire
NERFINISHED
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Bray NERFINISHED ⓘ England ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Egham
NERFINISHED
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England ⓘ Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| sibling | John Boulting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Diana Morgan
NERFINISHED
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Enid Munnik NERFINISHED ⓘ Hayley Mills NERFINISHED ⓘ Judy Hylton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| twin | John Boulting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1940s
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1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ |
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: Roy Boulting Description of subject: Roy Boulting was a British film director and producer, best known for the satirical and socially conscious films he made with his twin brother John Boulting from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Brighton Rock (1947 film)
subject surface form:
Brighton Rock (1947 film)