Peter Temple
E441075
Peter Temple was an acclaimed Australian crime novelist best known for his Jack Irish series and the Miles Franklin Award–winning novel "Truth."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Temple canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4469903 — 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: Peter Temple Context triple: [Jack Irish, creator, Peter Temple]
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A.
William Boyd
William Boyd was an American actor best known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy in numerous films and early television.
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B.
Iain Reid
Iain Reid is a Canadian author best known for his psychologically suspenseful novels such as "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" and "Foe."
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C.
Philip Kerr
Philip Kerr was a British author best known for his Bernie Gunther series of historical crime novels set in Nazi and post-war Germany.
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D.
Nathan Barr
Nathan Barr is an American film and television composer known for his atmospheric scores on projects ranging from horror films to acclaimed series like True Blood and The Americans.
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E.
Douglas Roberts
Douglas Roberts is known primarily as one of the sons of American cable television pioneer and Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts.
- 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: Peter Temple Target entity description: Peter Temple was an acclaimed Australian crime novelist best known for his Jack Irish series and the Miles Franklin Award–winning novel "Truth."
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A.
William Boyd
William Boyd was an American actor best known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy in numerous films and early television.
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B.
Iain Reid
Iain Reid is a Canadian author best known for his psychologically suspenseful novels such as "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" and "Foe."
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C.
Philip Kerr
Philip Kerr was a British author best known for his Bernie Gunther series of historical crime novels set in Nazi and post-war Germany.
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D.
Nathan Barr
Nathan Barr is an American film and television composer known for his atmospheric scores on projects ranging from horror films to acclaimed series like True Blood and The Americans.
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E.
Douglas Roberts
Douglas Roberts is known primarily as one of the sons of American cable television pioneer and Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian writer
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crime writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| adaptationOfWork |
Jack Irish television films
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Jack Irish television series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Gold Dagger
NERFINISHED
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Miles Franklin Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Ned Kelly Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Melbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ |
| influenced | Australian crime fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movedTo | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Peter Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacterCreated | Jack Irish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | hard-boiled prose style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
An Iron Rose
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bad Debts NERFINISHED ⓘ Black Tide NERFINISHED ⓘ Dead Point NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Evil Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Irish series NERFINISHED ⓘ Shooting Star NERFINISHED ⓘ The Broken Shore NERFINISHED ⓘ Truth NERFINISHED ⓘ White Dog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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novelist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| series | Jack Irish series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
An Iron Rose
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bad Debts NERFINISHED ⓘ Black Tide NERFINISHED ⓘ Dead Point NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Evil Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Shooting Star NERFINISHED ⓘ The Broken Shore NERFINISHED ⓘ Truth NERFINISHED ⓘ White Dog 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: Peter Temple Description of subject: Peter Temple was an acclaimed Australian crime novelist best known for his Jack Irish series and the Miles Franklin Award–winning novel "Truth."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.