David Hare
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David Hare is a prominent British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically charged stage works and acclaimed film adaptations such as "The Hours."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Hare canonical | 17 |
| Sir David Hare | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3051144 — 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: David Hare Context triple: [The Hours, screenwriter, David Hare]
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A.
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director renowned for his sophisticated adaptations of literary works for stage and film, including the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Dangerous Liaisons."
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B.
Tony Way
Tony Way is an English actor, comedian, and writer known for his supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like Game of Thrones and various British comedies.
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C.
Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn is a prolific and acclaimed British playwright and director, best known for his innovative and often comedic plays exploring middle-class life and relationships.
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D.
Jez Butterworth
Jez Butterworth is a British playwright and screenwriter known for acclaimed works such as the play "Jerusalem" and screenplays including "Edge of Tomorrow" and "Ford v Ferrari."
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E.
Joseph Godber
Joseph Godber was a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts in the mid-20th century, including roles in agriculture and foreign affairs.
- 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: David Hare Target entity description: David Hare is a prominent British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically charged stage works and acclaimed film adaptations such as "The Hours."
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A.
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director renowned for his sophisticated adaptations of literary works for stage and film, including the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Dangerous Liaisons."
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B.
Tony Way
Tony Way is an English actor, comedian, and writer known for his supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like Game of Thrones and various British comedies.
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C.
Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn is a prolific and acclaimed British playwright and director, best known for his innovative and often comedic plays exploring middle-class life and relationships.
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D.
Jez Butterworth
Jez Butterworth is a British playwright and screenwriter known for acclaimed works such as the play "Jerusalem" and screenplays including "Edge of Tomorrow" and "Ford v Ferrari."
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E.
Joseph Godber
Joseph Godber was a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts in the mid-20th century, including roles in agriculture and foreign affairs.
- 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: David Hare Description of subject: David Hare is a prominent British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically charged stage works and acclaimed film adaptations such as "The Hours."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Damage (1992 film)
this entity surface form:
Sir David Hare