David Gulpilil
E441066
David Gulpilil was a renowned Yolngu Australian actor and dancer celebrated for bringing Indigenous Australian stories and culture to international cinema through films such as Walkabout, Storm Boy, and Rabbit-Proof Fence.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Gulpilil canonical | 6 |
| Chris Lee – David Gulpilil | 1 |
| Jamie Gulpilil | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4469832 — 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 Gulpilil Context triple: [The Proposition, stars, David Gulpilil]
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A.
Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri
Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri was a highly respected Pintupi Aboriginal artist and one of the leading figures of the Western Desert art movement in Australia.
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B.
Maurice Namatjira
Maurice Namatjira was an Australian Aboriginal artist known for his distinctive landscape paintings that continued and developed the Hermannsburg watercolour tradition established by his father, Albert Namatjira.
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C.
Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri
Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri is a prominent Australian Aboriginal artist associated with the Western Desert art movement and the Papunya Tula cooperative.
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D.
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was a pioneering Australian Aboriginal artist whose large-scale, intricately patterned paintings played a key role in bringing Western Desert art to international prominence.
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E.
Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi
Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi was a prominent Pintupi Aboriginal artist associated with the Western Desert art movement, known for his influential contributions to Papunya Tula painting.
- 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 Gulpilil Target entity description: David Gulpilil was a renowned Yolngu Australian actor and dancer celebrated for bringing Indigenous Australian stories and culture to international cinema through films such as Walkabout, Storm Boy, and Rabbit-Proof Fence.
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A.
Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri
Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri was a highly respected Pintupi Aboriginal artist and one of the leading figures of the Western Desert art movement in Australia.
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B.
Maurice Namatjira
Maurice Namatjira was an Australian Aboriginal artist known for his distinctive landscape paintings that continued and developed the Hermannsburg watercolour tradition established by his father, Albert Namatjira.
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C.
Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri
Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri is a prominent Australian Aboriginal artist associated with the Western Desert art movement and the Papunya Tula cooperative.
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D.
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was a pioneering Australian Aboriginal artist whose large-scale, intricately patterned paintings played a key role in bringing Western Desert art to international prominence.
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E.
Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi
Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi was a prominent Pintupi Aboriginal artist associated with the Western Desert art movement, known for his influential contributions to Papunya Tula painting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aboriginal Australian person
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Yolngu person ⓘ actor ⓘ dancer ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
NERFINISHED
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AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role NERFINISHED ⓘ Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Best Actor award NERFINISHED ⓘ Member of the Order of Australia ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1953-07-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-11-29 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yolngu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Gulpilil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
dance
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film ⓘ television ⓘ |
| fullName | David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | Indigenous Australian cinema ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | AM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bringing Yolngu culture to international audiences
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portraying Indigenous Australian characters ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Yolngu Matha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
David in Walkabout
NERFINISHED
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Fingerbone Bill in Storm Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Australia
NERFINISHED
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Charlie’s Country NERFINISHED ⓘ Crocodile Dundee NERFINISHED ⓘ Goldstone NERFINISHED ⓘ Rabbit-Proof Fence NERFINISHED ⓘ Storm Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ Ten Canoes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tracker NERFINISHED ⓘ Walkabout NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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cultural ambassador ⓘ dancer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Arnhem Land
NERFINISHED
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Northern Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | South Australia 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: David Gulpilil Description of subject: David Gulpilil was a renowned Yolngu Australian actor and dancer celebrated for bringing Indigenous Australian stories and culture to international cinema through films such as Walkabout, Storm Boy, and Rabbit-Proof Fence.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Chris Lee – David Gulpilil
this entity surface form:
Jamie Gulpilil