Ian Shaw
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Ian Shaw is a British actor and writer, known for his stage and screen work and for being the son of acclaimed actor Robert Shaw.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ian Shaw canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6071316 — 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: Ian Shaw Context triple: [Robert Archibald Shaw, child, Ian Shaw]
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A.
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw is an American professional baseball player and power-hitting outfielder/first baseman who played college baseball at Boston College before reaching Major League Baseball.
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B.
Shaun Parkes
Shaun Parkes is a British actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in series such as "Casanova," "Doctor Who," and "Small Axe."
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C.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is a musician best known as the drummer for the British rock band King Crimson and for his extensive work as a session and touring drummer.
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D.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is a musician best known as the drummer for the New Zealand rock band The Warriors.
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E.
Ian Crafford
Ian Crafford is a film editor best known for his work on the James Bond movie "Never Say Never Again."
- 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: Ian Shaw Target entity description: Ian Shaw is a British actor and writer, known for his stage and screen work and for being the son of acclaimed actor Robert Shaw.
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A.
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw is an American professional baseball player and power-hitting outfielder/first baseman who played college baseball at Boston College before reaching Major League Baseball.
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B.
Shaun Parkes
Shaun Parkes is a British actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in series such as "Casanova," "Doctor Who," and "Small Axe."
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C.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is a musician best known as the drummer for the British rock band King Crimson and for his extensive work as a session and touring drummer.
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D.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is a musician best known as the drummer for the New Zealand rock band The Warriors.
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E.
Ian Crafford
Ian Crafford is a film editor best known for his work on the James Bond movie "Never Say Never Again."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ playwright ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | The Shark Is Broken NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Joseph Nixon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| father | Robert Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Ure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | Robert Shaw in The Shark Is Broken ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Casualty
NERFINISHED
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EastEnders NERFINISHED ⓘ Hedda Gabler (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny English Reborn NERFINISHED ⓘ Medics NERFINISHED ⓘ Much Ado About Nothing (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ Othello (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sharpe NERFINISHED ⓘ Silent Witness NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bill NERFINISHED ⓘ The Boys in the Band (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cherry Orchard (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Contract NERFINISHED ⓘ The Country Wife (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Duchess of Malfi (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Soul of Szechuan (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Iceman Cometh (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Importance of Being Earnest (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Merchant of Venice (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Play What I Wrote NERFINISHED ⓘ The Queen NERFINISHED ⓘ The Recruiting Officer (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Romans in Britain (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Seagull (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shark Is Broken NERFINISHED ⓘ The Taming of the Shrew (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tempest (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Winterling (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ Three Sisters (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ War Horse (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ Widows (2018 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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playwright ⓘ writer ⓘ |
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: Ian Shaw Description of subject: Ian Shaw is a British actor and writer, known for his stage and screen work and for being the son of acclaimed actor Robert Shaw.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.