Ian Puleston-Davies
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Ian Puleston-Davies is a British actor and writer known for his character roles in television dramas such as Tin Star and Coronation Street.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ian Puleston-Davies canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10396613 — 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 Puleston-Davies Context triple: [Tin Star, starring, Ian Puleston-Davies]
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A.
Iain Hume
Iain Hume is a Canadian former professional footballer and forward known for his prolific goal-scoring and standout performances in the Indian Super League.
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B.
Alasdair Roberts
Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician and singer-songwriter known for his intricate guitar work, traditional balladry, and releases on independent labels such as Drag City.
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C.
Alastair Redfern
Alastair Redfern is an Anglican bishop and theologian who has served in senior roles within the Church of England, including as Bishop of Woolwich and later Bishop of Derby.
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D.
Piers Polkiss
Piers Polkiss is a minor character in the Harry Potter series, known as Dudley Dursley’s friend and fellow bully from Harry’s childhood.
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E.
Colin Stirling
Colin Stirling is an academic leader and university administrator who serves as the vice-chancellor and president of Flinders University in Australia.
- 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 Puleston-Davies Target entity description: Ian Puleston-Davies is a British actor and writer known for his character roles in television dramas such as Tin Star and Coronation Street.
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A.
Iain Hume
Iain Hume is a Canadian former professional footballer and forward known for his prolific goal-scoring and standout performances in the Indian Super League.
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B.
Alasdair Roberts
Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician and singer-songwriter known for his intricate guitar work, traditional balladry, and releases on independent labels such as Drag City.
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C.
Alastair Redfern
Alastair Redfern is an Anglican bishop and theologian who has served in senior roles within the Church of England, including as Bishop of Woolwich and later Bishop of Derby.
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D.
Piers Polkiss
Piers Polkiss is a minor character in the Harry Potter series, known as Dudley Dursley’s friend and fellow bully from Harry’s childhood.
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E.
Colin Stirling
Colin Stirling is an academic leader and university administrator who serves as the vice-chancellor and president of Flinders University in Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
British film industry
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British television industry ⓘ British theatre ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Being Human
NERFINISHED
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Coronation Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Holby City NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bill NERFINISHED ⓘ Tin Star NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-09-06 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Welsh ⓘ |
| familyName | Puleston-Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | television drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Ian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
playwright
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television writer ⓘ |
| knownFor |
character roles in British television dramas
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role in Coronation Street ⓘ role in Tin Star ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Ian Puleston-Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableRole | Owen Armstrong in Coronation Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Being Human
NERFINISHED
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Coronation Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Holby City NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcella NERFINISHED ⓘ Midsomer Murders NERFINISHED ⓘ Penny Dreadful NERFINISHED ⓘ Silent Witness NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bill NERFINISHED ⓘ Tin Star NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Flintshire
NERFINISHED
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Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 Puleston-Davies Description of subject: Ian Puleston-Davies is a British actor and writer known for his character roles in television dramas such as Tin Star and Coronation Street.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.