Chris Barrie
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Chris Barrie is a British actor and impressionist best known for his roles as Arnold Rimmer in the sci-fi sitcom "Red Dwarf" and Gordon Brittas in "The Brittas Empire."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chris Barrie canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9937055 — 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: Chris Barrie Context triple: [Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, stars, Chris Barrie]
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A.
Jay McGillis
Jay McGillis was a Boston College football player whose battle with leukemia inspired the creation of the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation to support families of children with cancer.
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B.
Damon Herriman
Damon Herriman is an Australian actor known for his versatile character roles in film and television, including notable performances in series like "Justified" and "Mindhunter" and in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
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C.
Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambers is a British author and critic best known for his innovative and award-winning young adult novels, including the Carnegie Medal–winning "Postcards from No Man’s Land."
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D.
Liam Aiken
Liam Aiken is an American actor known for his roles as a child and teen in films such as "A Series of Unfortunate Events," "Good Boy!" and "Stepmom."
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E.
Jonathan Bailey
Jonathan Bailey is an Anglican clergyman who served as the Bishop of Derby in the Church of England.
- 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: Chris Barrie Target entity description: Chris Barrie is a British actor and impressionist best known for his roles as Arnold Rimmer in the sci-fi sitcom "Red Dwarf" and Gordon Brittas in "The Brittas Empire."
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A.
Jay McGillis
Jay McGillis was a Boston College football player whose battle with leukemia inspired the creation of the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation to support families of children with cancer.
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B.
Damon Herriman
Damon Herriman is an Australian actor known for his versatile character roles in film and television, including notable performances in series like "Justified" and "Mindhunter" and in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
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C.
Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambers is a British author and critic best known for his innovative and award-winning young adult novels, including the Carnegie Medal–winning "Postcards from No Man’s Land."
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D.
Liam Aiken
Liam Aiken is an American actor known for his roles as a child and teen in films such as "A Series of Unfortunate Events," "Good Boy!" and "Stepmom."
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E.
Jonathan Bailey
Jonathan Bailey is an Anglican clergyman who served as the Bishop of Derby in the Church of England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ impressionist ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ voice acting ⓘ |
| appearedInFilm |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
NERFINISHED
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearedInTVSeries |
Red Dwarf
NERFINISHED
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Spitting Image NERFINISHED ⓘ The Brittas Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Christopher Jonathan Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-03-28 ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction comedy
ⓘ
sitcom ⓘ |
| hasFanBase | Red Dwarf fandom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenAudiobookNarrationFor | Red Dwarf novels ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Red Dwarf
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Brittas Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Chris Barrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Arnold Rimmer
NERFINISHED
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Gordon Brittas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ impressionist ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| performedImpressionsOn | Spitting Image NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Hannover
NERFINISHED
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Lower Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter |
Arnold Rimmer in Red Dwarf
NERFINISHED
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Gordon Brittas in The Brittas Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Hillary in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Megan Barrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
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: Chris Barrie Description of subject: Chris Barrie is a British actor and impressionist best known for his roles as Arnold Rimmer in the sci-fi sitcom "Red Dwarf" and Gordon Brittas in "The Brittas Empire."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.