John Clive (actor)
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John Clive was a British actor and voice artist known for roles in films such as "A Clockwork Orange" and for voicing John Lennon in the animated film "Yellow Submarine."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Clive (actor) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T546975 — 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: John Clive (actor) Context triple: [Clive, hasNotableBearer, John Clive (actor)]
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A.
Michael Gough
Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
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B.
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths was a British character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Withnail & I" and as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" series.
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C.
Benjamin Whitrow
Benjamin Whitrow was a British character actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Mr. Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
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D.
Alan Aldridge
Alan Aldridge was a British illustrator and graphic designer famed for his vibrant, surreal artwork for 1960s and 1970s music and pop culture icons, including The Beatles and Elton John.
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E.
Reggie Brown
Reggie Brown is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Snapchat, the multimedia messaging app developed by Snap Inc.
- 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: John Clive (actor) Target entity description: John Clive was a British actor and voice artist known for roles in films such as "A Clockwork Orange" and for voicing John Lennon in the animated film "Yellow Submarine."
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A.
Michael Gough
Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
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B.
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths was a British character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Withnail & I" and as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" series.
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C.
Benjamin Whitrow
Benjamin Whitrow was a British character actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Mr. Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
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D.
Alan Aldridge
Alan Aldridge was a British illustrator and graphic designer famed for his vibrant, surreal artwork for 1960s and 1970s music and pop culture icons, including The Beatles and Elton John.
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E.
Reggie Brown
Reggie Brown is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Snapchat, the multimedia messaging app developed by Snap Inc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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author ⓘ human ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Clive ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
ⓘ
television acting ⓘ voice acting ⓘ writing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy films
ⓘ
drama films ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | John Clive ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableRole |
appearance in A Clockwork Orange
ⓘ
voice of John Lennon in Yellow Submarine ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Clockwork Orange
ⓘ
Carry On Abroad ⓘ Carry On Dick ⓘ The Italian Job ⓘ The Pink Panther Strikes Again ⓘ The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ⓘ Yellow Submarine ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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author ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| performedIn |
A Clockwork Orange
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Carry On Abroad ⓘ Carry On Dick ⓘ The Italian Job ⓘ The Pink Panther Strikes Again ⓘ The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ⓘ Yellow Submarine ⓘ |
| portrayed | voice of John Lennon ⓘ |
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: John Clive (actor) Description of subject: John Clive was a British actor and voice artist known for roles in films such as "A Clockwork Orange" and for voicing John Lennon in the animated film "Yellow Submarine."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.