Michael Blake
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Michael Blake was an American author and screenwriter best known for writing the novel and Oscar-winning screenplay for "Dances with Wolves."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Blake canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4884536 — 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: Michael Blake Context triple: [Dances with Wolves, authorOfSourceWork, Michael Blake]
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A.
Christopher Blake
Christopher Blake is a stage play written by American playwright Moss Hart, best known for its dramatic exploration of family and marital conflict.
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B.
Joe Blake
Joe Blake is a central character in the alternate-history television series "The Man in the High Castle," portrayed as a conflicted young man navigating loyalty, identity, and resistance in a world where the Axis powers won World War II.
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C.
Michael Graydon
Michael Graydon is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as a leading commander of British fighter aviation during the late 20th century.
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D.
Luke Murray
Luke Murray is an American basketball coach known for his assistant coaching roles at several major college programs and as the son of actor Bill Murray.
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E.
Ian Mackley
Ian Mackley is the husband of British comedian and television personality Julian Clary.
- 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: Michael Blake Target entity description: Michael Blake was an American author and screenwriter best known for writing the novel and Oscar-winning screenplay for "Dances with Wolves."
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A.
Christopher Blake
Christopher Blake is a stage play written by American playwright Moss Hart, best known for its dramatic exploration of family and marital conflict.
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B.
Joe Blake
Joe Blake is a central character in the alternate-history television series "The Man in the High Castle," portrayed as a conflicted young man navigating loyalty, identity, and resistance in a world where the Axis powers won World War II.
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C.
Michael Graydon
Michael Graydon is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as a leading commander of British fighter aviation during the late 20th century.
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D.
Luke Murray
Luke Murray is an American basketball coach known for his assistant coaching roles at several major college programs and as the son of actor Bill Murray.
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E.
Ian Mackley
Ian Mackley is the husband of British comedian and television personality Julian Clary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
ⓘ
human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
Dances with Wolves (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Dances with Wolves
|
| author | Michael Blake ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Dances with Wolves (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Dances with Wolves
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Blake ⓘ |
| genre |
Western fiction
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Michael Blake ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Dances with Wolves
ⓘ
linked to:
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
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| notableFor | writing the novel and screenplay of Dances with Wolves ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dances with Wolves ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| partOf |
Dances with Wolves (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Dances with Wolves
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| screenplayBy | Michael Blake ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Michael Blake ⓘ |
| wrote |
Dances with Wolves (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Dances with Wolves
Dances with Wolves (screenplay) ⓘ
linked to:
Dances with Wolves
|
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: Michael Blake Description of subject: Michael Blake was an American author and screenwriter best known for writing the novel and Oscar-winning screenplay for "Dances with Wolves."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.