James Donald
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James Donald was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic mid-20th-century films, particularly war dramas such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "The Great Escape."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Donald canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5398842 — 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: James Donald Context triple: [The Great Escape, starring, James Donald]
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A.
Clive Brook
Clive Brook was a British film actor best known as a suave leading man in early Hollywood and British cinema during the 1920s and 1930s.
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B.
William Atherton
William Atherton is an American character actor best known for playing arrogant and antagonistic authority figures in films such as Ghostbusters and Die Hard.
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C.
Colin Watkinson
Colin Watkinson is a British cinematographer best known for his visually striking work on films and television series such as The Fall and The Handmaid's Tale.
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D.
Warren Duff
Warren Duff was an American screenwriter and film producer active during Hollywood's studio era, known for his work on numerous crime dramas and film noirs.
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E.
Ron Todd
Ron Todd is an American politician who served as the Kansas Insurance Commissioner before Kathleen Sebelius.
- 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: James Donald Target entity description: James Donald was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic mid-20th-century films, particularly war dramas such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "The Great Escape."
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A.
Clive Brook
Clive Brook was a British film actor best known as a suave leading man in early Hollywood and British cinema during the 1920s and 1930s.
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B.
William Atherton
William Atherton is an American character actor best known for playing arrogant and antagonistic authority figures in films such as Ghostbusters and Die Hard.
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C.
Colin Watkinson
Colin Watkinson is a British cinematographer best known for his visually striking work on films and television series such as The Fall and The Handmaid's Tale.
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D.
Warren Duff
Warren Duff was an American screenwriter and film producer active during Hollywood's studio era, known for his work on numerous crime dramas and film noirs.
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E.
Ron Todd
Ron Todd is an American politician who served as the Kansas Insurance Commissioner before Kathleen Sebelius.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1970s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1938 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | West Tytherley churchyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stomach cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1917-05-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1993-08-03 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Donald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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historical film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | James Donald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayals in war dramas
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roles in mid-20th-century British cinema ⓘ |
| notableWork |
King Rat
NERFINISHED
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Lust for Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Quo Vadis NERFINISHED ⓘ The Battle of the River Plate NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bridge on the River Kwai NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Escape NERFINISHED ⓘ The Greengage Summer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pickwick Papers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Vikings NERFINISHED ⓘ The Way Ahead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Aberdeen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | West Tytherley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter |
Aulus Plautius
NERFINISHED
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Dr. Kennedy NERFINISHED ⓘ Group Captain Ramsey NERFINISHED ⓘ Major Clipton NERFINISHED ⓘ Theo Van Gogh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Ann Donald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| work |
Lust for Life
NERFINISHED
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Quo Vadis NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bridge on the River Kwai NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Escape NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pickwick Papers 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: James Donald Description of subject: James Donald was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic mid-20th-century films, particularly war dramas such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "The Great Escape."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.