Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd
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Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd, known professionally as Richard Todd, was an Irish-born British actor best known for his roles in films such as "The Dam Busters" and "The Hasty Heart."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11334190 — 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: Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd Context triple: [Richard Todd, birthName, Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd]
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A.
Ian Puleston-Davies
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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B.
Simon Tindall
Simon Tindall is a cinematographer known for his work on the British coming-of-age film "Days of the Bagnold Summer."
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C.
Alex Bridgland
Alex Bridgland is a scientific researcher known for co-authoring a 2021 Nature paper by Jumper et al., likely contributing to advances in computational biology or protein structure prediction.
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D.
Trevor Huddleston
Trevor Huddleston was an Anglican bishop and prominent anti-apartheid campaigner renowned for his outspoken opposition to racial segregation in South Africa.
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E.
Rupert Holliday-Evans
Rupert Holliday-Evans is a British character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, often appearing in comedies and dramas.
- 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: Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd Target entity description: Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd, known professionally as Richard Todd, was an Irish-born British actor best known for his roles in films such as "The Dam Busters" and "The Hasty Heart."
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A.
Ian Puleston-Davies
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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B.
Simon Tindall
Simon Tindall is a cinematographer known for his work on the British coming-of-age film "Days of the Bagnold Summer."
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C.
Alex Bridgland
Alex Bridgland is a scientific researcher known for co-authoring a 2021 Nature paper by Jumper et al., likely contributing to advances in computational biology or protein structure prediction.
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D.
Trevor Huddleston
Trevor Huddleston was an Anglican bishop and prominent anti-apartheid campaigner renowned for his outspoken opposition to racial segregation in South Africa.
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E.
Rupert Holliday-Evans
Rupert Holliday-Evans is a British character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, often appearing in comedies and dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Richard Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Actor nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War II
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surface form:
Second World War
|
| countryOfBirth | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1919-06-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2009-12-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts
NERFINISHED
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Shrewsbury School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
drama film
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war film ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| name | Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Actor ⓘ |
| nominatedForWork | The Hasty Heart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Man Called Peter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stage Fright NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dam Busters NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hasty Heart NERFINISHED ⓘ The Longest Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Normandy
NERFINISHED
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Operation Overlord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dublin ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Grantham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Wing Commander Guy Gibson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | The Dam Busters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Little Ponton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedInUnit | Parachute Regiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Catherine Grant-Bogle
NERFINISHED
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Virginia Mailer 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: Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd Description of subject: Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd, known professionally as Richard Todd, was an Irish-born British actor best known for his roles in films such as "The Dam Busters" and "The Hasty Heart."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.