Father Michael Kerrigan
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Father Michael Kerrigan is the troubled Catholic priest protagonist of the British television drama "Broken," portrayed by Sean Bean as he grapples with personal demons while serving a deprived community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Father Michael Kerrigan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10844906 — 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: Father Michael Kerrigan Context triple: [Broken, mainCharacter, Father Michael Kerrigan]
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A.
Father Michael Logan
Father Michael Logan is the tormented Catholic priest protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "I Confess," bound by the secrecy of the confessional even as he is suspected of murder.
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B.
Father Brennan
Father Brennan is a tormented priest in the 1976 horror film "The Omen" who desperately tries to warn the protagonists about the demonic nature of their child.
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C.
Father Dolan
Father Dolan is a strict, punitive Jesuit priest who serves as an authority figure and antagonist to the young Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce’s novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
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D.
Father Jerry Connolly
Father Jerry Connolly is a principled Catholic priest and childhood friend of gangster Rocky Sullivan in the classic crime film "Angels with Dirty Faces," serving as the story’s moral conscience and dramatic counterpoint to Rocky’s criminal life.
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E.
Father Daniel Flynn
Father Daniel Flynn is a mysterious, morally conflicted priest whose hidden past becomes central to the neo-noir thriller film "Bad Times at the El Royale."
- 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: Father Michael Kerrigan Target entity description: Father Michael Kerrigan is the troubled Catholic priest protagonist of the British television drama "Broken," portrayed by Sean Bean as he grapples with personal demons while serving a deprived community.
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A.
Father Michael Logan
Father Michael Logan is the tormented Catholic priest protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "I Confess," bound by the secrecy of the confessional even as he is suspected of murder.
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B.
Father Brennan
Father Brennan is a tormented priest in the 1976 horror film "The Omen" who desperately tries to warn the protagonists about the demonic nature of their child.
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C.
Father Dolan
Father Dolan is a strict, punitive Jesuit priest who serves as an authority figure and antagonist to the young Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce’s novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
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D.
Father Jerry Connolly
Father Jerry Connolly is a principled Catholic priest and childhood friend of gangster Rocky Sullivan in the classic crime film "Angels with Dirty Faces," serving as the story’s moral conscience and dramatic counterpoint to Rocky’s criminal life.
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E.
Father Daniel Flynn
Father Daniel Flynn is a mysterious, morally conflicted priest whose hidden past becomes central to the neo-noir thriller film "Bad Times at the El Royale."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Broken, series 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | parish community ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jimmy McGovern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Broken, Episode 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | television drama character ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
compassionate
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conflicted ⓘ troubled ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
moral dilemmas
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pastoral care of parishioners ⓘ social justice issues ⓘ |
| networkOfWork | BBC One NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | Catholic priest ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Sean Bean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Broken (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
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| roleIn | Broken (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Northern England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
faith
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guilt ⓘ past trauma ⓘ personal demons ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
institutional failure
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mental health ⓘ poverty ⓘ religious faith ⓘ |
| workLocation | deprived urban community ⓘ |
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: Father Michael Kerrigan Description of subject: Father Michael Kerrigan is the troubled Catholic priest protagonist of the British television drama "Broken," portrayed by Sean Bean as he grapples with personal demons while serving a deprived community.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.