Clive Exton
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Clive Exton was a British screenwriter best known for his television adaptations and original dramas, including work on series such as "Agatha Christie's Poirot" and "Jeeves and Wooster."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clive Exton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5513998 — 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: Clive Exton Context triple: [Armchair Theatre, notableWriter, Clive Exton]
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A.
Clive Tolley
Clive Tolley is a Canadian municipal politician who has served as the mayor of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
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B.
Clive Revill
Clive Revill is a New Zealand-born actor and voice actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theatre, including providing the original voice of Emperor Palpatine in the 1980 release of "The Empire Strikes Back."
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C.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
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D.
Giles Nuttgens
Giles Nuttgens is a British cinematographer known for his visually distinctive work on independent films and major features, often collaborating with directors like Deepa Mehta and David Mackenzie.
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E.
Robert Cornthwaite
Robert Cornthwaite was an American character actor best known for his roles in 1950s science fiction films and numerous television appearances.
- 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: Clive Exton Target entity description: Clive Exton was a British screenwriter best known for his television adaptations and original dramas, including work on series such as "Agatha Christie's Poirot" and "Jeeves and Wooster."
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A.
Clive Tolley
Clive Tolley is a Canadian municipal politician who has served as the mayor of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
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B.
Clive Revill
Clive Revill is a New Zealand-born actor and voice actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theatre, including providing the original voice of Emperor Palpatine in the 1980 release of "The Empire Strikes Back."
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C.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
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D.
Giles Nuttgens
Giles Nuttgens is a British cinematographer known for his visually distinctive work on independent films and major features, often collaborating with directors like Deepa Mehta and David Mackenzie.
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E.
Robert Cornthwaite
Robert Cornthwaite was an American character actor best known for his roles in 1950s science fiction films and numerous television appearances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| adaptedWorkOf |
Agatha Christie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
P. G. Wodehouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-04-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2007-08-16 ⓘ |
| familyName | Exton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
crime drama ⓘ mystery ⓘ |
| givenName | Clive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
original television dramas
ⓘ
television adaptations ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Clive Exton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
10 Rillington Place
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Agatha Christie's Poirot NERFINISHED ⓘ Father Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeeves and Wooster NERFINISHED ⓘ Kill Me Tomorrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Red King, White Knight NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosemary & Thyme NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bounder NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crezz NERFINISHED ⓘ The Governor NERFINISHED ⓘ The House in Nightmare Park NERFINISHED ⓘ The Irish R.M. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
playwright
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
ⓘ
Islington NERFINISHED ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| placeOfDeath |
England
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| spouse | Margaret Exton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
British film
ⓘ
British television ⓘ |
| wroteForSeries |
Agatha Christie's Poirot
NERFINISHED
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Father Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeeves and Wooster NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosemary & Thyme 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: Clive Exton Description of subject: Clive Exton was a British screenwriter best known for his television adaptations and original dramas, including work on series such as "Agatha Christie's Poirot" and "Jeeves and Wooster."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.