Scott Hicks
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Scott Hicks is an Australian film director best known internationally for his acclaimed 1996 drama "Shine."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Scott Hicks canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3066546 — 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: Scott Hicks Context triple: [Shine, director, Scott Hicks]
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A.
Barry Otto
Barry Otto is an Australian actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, and as a prominent figure in the Australian performing arts scene.
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B.
Bill Carmody
Bill Carmody is an American college basketball coach best known for his long tenure at Princeton, where he successfully implemented and popularized the Princeton offense.
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C.
Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn is an Australian actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including prominent villains in major Hollywood productions.
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D.
David Seidler
David Seidler is a British-American screenwriter best known for writing the Academy Award-winning screenplay for the historical drama film "The King’s Speech."
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E.
Geoffrey Wright
Geoffrey Wright is an Australian film director best known for his gritty and controversial work, including the neo-Nazi skinhead drama "Romper Stomper."
- 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: Scott Hicks Target entity description: Scott Hicks is an Australian film director best known internationally for his acclaimed 1996 drama "Shine."
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A.
Barry Otto
Barry Otto is an Australian actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, and as a prominent figure in the Australian performing arts scene.
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B.
Bill Carmody
Bill Carmody is an American college basketball coach best known for his long tenure at Princeton, where he successfully implemented and popularized the Princeton offense.
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C.
Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn is an Australian actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including prominent villains in major Hollywood productions.
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D.
David Seidler
David Seidler is a British-American screenwriter best known for writing the Academy Award-winning screenplay for the historical drama film "The King’s Speech."
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E.
Geoffrey Wright
Geoffrey Wright is an Australian film director best known for his gritty and controversial work, including the neo-Nazi skinhead drama "Romper Stomper."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Scott Hicks Description of subject: Scott Hicks is an Australian film director best known internationally for his acclaimed 1996 drama "Shine."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hearts in Atlantis
subject linked to:
Scott Hicks
subject linked to:
Nick Palmer – Aaron Eckhart
subject linked to:
Carol Fuchs