Ewan McGregor
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Ewan McGregor is a Scottish actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including portraying Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ewan McGregor canonical | 80 |
| Ewan Gordon McGregor | 1 |
| Ewan McGregor as Billy | 1 |
| Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T713001 — 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: Ewan McGregor Context triple: [Angels & Demons, starring, Ewan McGregor]
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A.
Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill is an American actor best known for portraying Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars film series and for his extensive voice work, including the Joker in various Batman animated projects.
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B.
Angus Macfadyen
Angus Macfadyen is a Scottish actor best known for his roles in films such as "Braveheart," "Equilibrium," and "Saw III," as well as numerous television appearances.
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C.
Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves is a Canadian actor and producer known for his roles in blockbuster action and science fiction films such as The Matrix and John Wick franchises.
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D.
Hugo Weaving
Hugo Weaving is an Australian actor renowned for his roles in major film franchises, including playing Elrond in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and Agent Smith in "The Matrix" series.
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E.
Eric Bana
Eric Bana is an Australian actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "Hulk," "Munich," and "Troy."
- 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: Ewan McGregor Target entity description: Ewan McGregor is a Scottish actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including portraying Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
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A.
Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill is an American actor best known for portraying Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars film series and for his extensive voice work, including the Joker in various Batman animated projects.
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B.
Angus Macfadyen
Angus Macfadyen is a Scottish actor best known for his roles in films such as "Braveheart," "Equilibrium," and "Saw III," as well as numerous television appearances.
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C.
Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves is a Canadian actor and producer known for his roles in blockbuster action and science fiction films such as The Matrix and John Wick franchises.
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D.
Hugo Weaving
Hugo Weaving is an Australian actor renowned for his roles in major film franchises, including playing Elrond in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and Agent Smith in "The Matrix" series.
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E.
Eric Bana
Eric Bana is an Australian actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "Hulk," "Munich," and "Troy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Ewan McGregor Description of subject: Ewan McGregor is a Scottish actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including portraying Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
Referenced by (83)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ewan McGregor as Billy