Tony Slattery
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Tony Slattery is a British actor and comedian best known for his improvisational work on the TV show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and various film and television roles in the late 1980s and 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tony Slattery canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5317495 — 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: Tony Slattery Context triple: [Peter’s Friends, castMember, Tony Slattery]
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A.
Tony McCarroll
Tony McCarroll is an English drummer best known as the original drummer for the rock band Oasis, playing on their debut album "Definitely Maybe."
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B.
Tony McNulty
Tony McNulty is a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament and held ministerial roles including Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing.
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C.
Pat Duggan
Pat Duggan is a film producer known for work on classic Hollywood productions such as the 1953 comedy-drama "Forever Female."
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D.
Kevin Tighe
Kevin Tighe is an American actor best known for his role as firefighter-paramedic Roy DeSoto on the television series "Emergency!" and for numerous character roles in film and television.
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E.
Brian Kavanagh
Brian Kavanagh is a film editor best known for his work on notable Australian and international films, including the drama "The Devil's Playground."
- 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: Tony Slattery Target entity description: Tony Slattery is a British actor and comedian best known for his improvisational work on the TV show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and various film and television roles in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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A.
Tony McCarroll
Tony McCarroll is an English drummer best known as the original drummer for the rock band Oasis, playing on their debut album "Definitely Maybe."
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B.
Tony McNulty
Tony McNulty is a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament and held ministerial roles including Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing.
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C.
Pat Duggan
Pat Duggan is a film producer known for work on classic Hollywood productions such as the 1953 comedy-drama "Forever Female."
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D.
Kevin Tighe
Kevin Tighe is an American actor best known for his role as firefighter-paramedic Roy DeSoto on the television series "Emergency!" and for numerous character roles in film and television.
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E.
Brian Kavanagh
Brian Kavanagh is a film editor best known for his work on notable Australian and international films, including the drama "The Devil's Playground."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Carry On Columbus
NERFINISHED
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Coronation Street NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Get Ahead in Advertising NERFINISHED ⓘ Just a Gigolo (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingdom (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter's Friends NERFINISHED ⓘ Q.E.D. (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Dwarf NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturday Live (UK TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Comic Strip Presents... NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crying Game NERFINISHED ⓘ The Laughter Show NERFINISHED ⓘ Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Perrier Award (as part of Cambridge Footlights, 1981) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Anthony Declan James Slattery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-11-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cambridge University
NERFINISHED
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Trinity Hall, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
improvisational comedy
ⓘ
sketch comedy ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Christopher Slattery
NERFINISHED
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Michael Slattery NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Slattery NERFINISHED ⓘ Sheila Slattery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hosted | Whose Line Is It Anyway? (stage tours) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | improvisational comedy on Whose Line Is It Anyway? ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cambridge Footlights NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Tony Slattery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork | Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ television presenter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Stonebridge, London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | London, England ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | bisexual ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ |
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: Tony Slattery Description of subject: Tony Slattery is a British actor and comedian best known for his improvisational work on the TV show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and various film and television roles in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Peter’s Friends