Richard Armitage
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Richard Armitage is an English actor best known for his role as Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Armitage canonical | 19 |
| Richard Armitage (actor) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T475864 — 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: Richard Armitage Context triple: [The Hobbit film trilogy, leadActor, Richard Armitage]
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A.
Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds is an Irish actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, with notable roles in works such as "Rome," "There Will Be Blood," and "Game of Thrones."
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B.
Toby Jones
Toby Jones is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects such as "Infamous," the "Harry Potter" series, and "The Hunger Games."
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C.
Sean Bean
Sean Bean is an English actor renowned for his intense performances in film and television, including his iconic role as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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D.
Martin Freeman
Martin Freeman is an English actor known for his roles in "The Office" (UK), "Sherlock," and as Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit" film trilogy.
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E.
Joseph Fiennes
Joseph Fiennes is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Shakespeare in Love" and various historical and dramatic productions in both cinema and television.
- 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: Richard Armitage Target entity description: Richard Armitage is an English actor best known for his role as Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit."
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A.
Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds is an Irish actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, with notable roles in works such as "Rome," "There Will Be Blood," and "Game of Thrones."
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B.
Toby Jones
Toby Jones is an English character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects such as "Infamous," the "Harry Potter" series, and "The Hunger Games."
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C.
Sean Bean
Sean Bean is an English actor renowned for his intense performances in film and television, including his iconic role as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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D.
Martin Freeman
Martin Freeman is an English actor known for his roles in "The Office" (UK), "Sherlock," and as Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit" film trilogy.
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E.
Joseph Fiennes
Joseph Fiennes is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Shakespeare in Love" and various historical and dramatic productions in both cinema and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Richard Armitage Description of subject: Richard Armitage is an English actor best known for his role as Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit."
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Robin Hood (2006 TV series)
this entity surface form:
Richard Armitage (actor)