Nigel Planer
E882965
Nigel Planer is a British actor, comedian, and writer best known as one of the original members of the Comic Strip team and for his role as Neil in the cult sitcom "The Young Ones."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nigel Planer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10495370 — 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: Nigel Planer Context triple: [Boomers, stars, Nigel Planer]
-
A.
Nigel Harman
Nigel Harman is an English actor best known for his roles in television series like EastEnders and for his award-winning stage performances in West End musicals.
-
B.
Nigel Morris
Nigel Morris is a British-born entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former president of Capital One, a major U.S. financial services company.
-
C.
Nigel Dick
Nigel Dick is a British-born music video and film director known for creating iconic videos for major artists across pop and rock music.
-
D.
Nigel Sears
Nigel Sears is a British tennis coach best known for working with several top WTA players, including former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic.
-
E.
Nigel Hess
Nigel Hess is a British composer best known for his work on television, film, and theatre scores, including numerous BBC dramas and stage productions.
- 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: Nigel Planer Target entity description: Nigel Planer is a British actor, comedian, and writer best known as one of the original members of the Comic Strip team and for his role as Neil in the cult sitcom "The Young Ones."
-
A.
Nigel Harman
Nigel Harman is an English actor best known for his roles in television series like EastEnders and for his award-winning stage performances in West End musicals.
-
B.
Nigel Morris
Nigel Morris is a British-born entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former president of Capital One, a major U.S. financial services company.
-
C.
Nigel Dick
Nigel Dick is a British-born music video and film director known for creating iconic videos for major artists across pop and rock music.
-
D.
Nigel Sears
Nigel Sears is a British tennis coach best known for working with several top WTA players, including former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic.
-
E.
Nigel Hess
Nigel Hess is a British composer best known for his work on television, film, and theatre scores, including numerous BBC dramas and stage productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Blackadder III
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ Comic Strip Presents... NERFINISHED ⓘ Doctor Who NERFINISHED ⓘ Filthy Rich & Catflap NERFINISHED ⓘ French and Saunders NERFINISHED ⓘ Good Omens (radio adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ Hogfather NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonathan Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ Shine On Harvey Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bill NERFINISHED ⓘ The Colour of Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ The Comic Strip Movie: Eat the Rich NERFINISHED ⓘ The Comic Strip Movie: The Supergrass NERFINISHED ⓘ The Grimleys NERFINISHED ⓘ The Young Ones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Neil Pye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1953-02-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Dulwich College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
King's House School NERFINISHED ⓘ London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Nigel George Planer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
Nicholas Craig books
ⓘ
novel "Faking It" NERFINISHED ⓘ novel "The Right Man" NERFINISHED ⓘ plays for stage and radio ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing Neil Pye in The Young Ones ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Comic Strip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicCareer |
"Hole in My Shoe" reached UK Singles Chart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
released single "Hole in My Shoe" as Neil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration |
Adrian Edmondson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dawn French NERFINISHED ⓘ Jennifer Saunders NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ Rik Mayall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Comic Strip Presents...
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nicholas Craig NERFINISHED ⓘ Shine On Harvey Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Young Ones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film actor
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Westminster, London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageRole |
original cast member of West End production of Evita
ⓘ
performed in West End production of Chicago ⓘ performed in West End production of We Will Rock You ⓘ performed in West End production of Wicked 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: Nigel Planer Description of subject: Nigel Planer is a British actor, comedian, and writer best known as one of the original members of the Comic Strip team and for his role as Neil in the cult sitcom "The Young Ones."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.