Angus Deayton
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Angus Deayton is a British comedian, actor, writer, and television presenter best known for hosting the satirical panel show "Have I Got News for You."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Angus Deayton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7902398 — 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: Angus Deayton Context triple: [British Comedy Award, notableHost, Angus Deayton]
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A.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
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B.
Ian Boldsworth
Ian Boldsworth is a British comedian, writer, and podcaster best known for his work in alternative comedy and shows like the paranormal podcast "The ParaPod."
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C.
Anthony Bevan
Anthony Bevan was a British orientalist and scholar of Semitic languages known for his contributions to the study of Arabic and Hebrew texts.
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D.
Paul Kemp
Paul Kemp is the hard-drinking, disillusioned American journalist who serves as the protagonist and narrator of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel (and its film adaptation) "The Rum Diary."
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E.
Graeme Goodall
Graeme Goodall was an influential Australian-born recording engineer and music industry executive who played a key role in developing Jamaica’s recording scene and co-founding major labels that helped bring reggae to international audiences.
- 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: Angus Deayton Target entity description: Angus Deayton is a British comedian, actor, writer, and television presenter best known for hosting the satirical panel show "Have I Got News for You."
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A.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
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B.
Ian Boldsworth
Ian Boldsworth is a British comedian, writer, and podcaster best known for his work in alternative comedy and shows like the paranormal podcast "The ParaPod."
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C.
Anthony Bevan
Anthony Bevan was a British orientalist and scholar of Semitic languages known for his contributions to the study of Arabic and Hebrew texts.
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D.
Paul Kemp
Paul Kemp is the hard-drinking, disillusioned American journalist who serves as the protagonist and narrator of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel (and its film adaptation) "The Rum Diary."
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E.
Graeme Goodall
Graeme Goodall was an influential Australian-born recording engineer and music industry executive who played a key role in developing Jamaica’s recording scene and co-founding major labels that helped bring reggae to international audiences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
radio ⓘ television ⓘ |
| birthName | Gordon Angus Deayton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Tristan Deayton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-01-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Guildford Royal Grammar School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| hasGenreOfHumour | satirical comedy ⓘ |
| knownFor | Have I Got News for You NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Radio Active team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Angus Deayton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Have I Got News for You
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
KYTV NERFINISHED ⓘ One Foot in the Grave NERFINISHED ⓘ Radio Active NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ television presenter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
Surbiton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
Patrick Trench in One Foot in the Grave
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
host of Have I Got News for You ⓘ presenter of Hell's Kitchen (UK) ⓘ team captain on Would I Lie to You? ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lise Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startOfCareer | late 1970s ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Hell's Kitchen (UK)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
KYTV NERFINISHED ⓘ Nighty Night NERFINISHED ⓘ One Foot in the Grave NERFINISHED ⓘ Pramface NERFINISHED ⓘ Radio Active NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterloo Road NERFINISHED ⓘ Would I Lie to You? 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: Angus Deayton Description of subject: Angus Deayton is a British comedian, actor, writer, and television presenter best known for hosting the satirical panel show "Have I Got News for You."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.