Dylan Moran
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Dylan Moran is an Irish comedian, writer, and actor best known for his stand-up comedy and for co-creating and starring in the sitcom "Black Books."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dylan Moran canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5317643 — 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: Dylan Moran Context triple: [The Decoy Bride, castMember, Dylan Moran]
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A.
David Cross
David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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B.
Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up, podcast appearances, and character roles in television and film.
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C.
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his sharp observational humor and roles in film and television, including voicing Remy in Pixar's "Ratatouille."
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D.
Michael Irby
Michael Irby is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Barry," "The Unit," and "Mayans M.C."
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E.
Hugh Dennis
Hugh Dennis is a British comedian, actor, and writer best known for his work on the sketch show "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" and the sitcom "Outnumbered."
- 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: Dylan Moran Target entity description: Dylan Moran is an Irish comedian, writer, and actor best known for his stand-up comedy and for co-creating and starring in the sitcom "Black Books."
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A.
David Cross
David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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B.
Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up, podcast appearances, and character roles in television and film.
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C.
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his sharp observational humor and roles in film and television, including voicing Remy in Pixar's "Ratatouille."
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D.
Michael Irby
Michael Irby is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Barry," "The Unit," and "Mayans M.C."
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E.
Hugh Dennis
Hugh Dennis is a British comedian, actor, and writer best known for his work on the sketch show "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" and the sitcom "Outnumbered."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ sitcom creator ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| actedIn |
A Film with Me in It
NERFINISHED
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Black Books NERFINISHED ⓘ Calvary NERFINISHED ⓘ Good Vibrations NERFINISHED ⓘ Notting Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Run Fatboy Run NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaun of the Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ The Actors NERFINISHED ⓘ Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BAFTA TV Award for Best Situation Comedy (for Black Books, as co-creator)
NERFINISHED
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Perrier Comedy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | Black Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1971-11-03 ⓘ |
| familyName | Moran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
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observational comedy ⓘ stand-up comedy ⓘ surreal humour ⓘ |
| givenName | Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Dylan Moran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Black Books
NERFINISHED
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Like, Totally (stand-up show) NERFINISHED ⓘ Monster (stand-up show) NERFINISHED ⓘ Off the Hook (stand-up show) NERFINISHED ⓘ What It Is (stand-up show) NERFINISHED ⓘ Yeah, Yeah (stand-up show) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Like, Totally (stand-up tour)
NERFINISHED
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Monster (stand-up tour) NERFINISHED ⓘ Off the Hook (stand-up tour) NERFINISHED ⓘ What It Is (stand-up tour) NERFINISHED ⓘ Yeah, Yeah (stand-up tour) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Navan, County Meath, Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Edinburgh, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Elaine Moran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starringRole | Bernard Black 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: Dylan Moran Description of subject: Dylan Moran is an Irish comedian, writer, and actor best known for his stand-up comedy and for co-creating and starring in the sitcom "Black Books."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Decoy Bride