Bob Ellis
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Bob Ellis was an Australian screenwriter, author, and political commentator known for his sharp wit and influential contributions to film, theatre, and public discourse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Ellis canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5072232 — 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: Bob Ellis Context triple: [Newsfront, screenwriter, Bob Ellis]
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A.
Joe Ellis
Joe Ellis is an American sports executive best known as the longtime president and CEO of the Denver Broncos in the National Football League.
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B.
David Ellingson
David Ellingson is a songwriter best known for co-writing the hit ballad "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer," popularized by Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes.
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C.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
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D.
John Eales
John Eales is a former Australian rugby union lock widely regarded as one of the sport’s greatest players, renowned for his leadership, lineout prowess, and goal-kicking ability.
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E.
William Mathews
William Mathews was a 19th-century British mountaineer notable for pioneering ascents in the Alps.
- 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: Bob Ellis Target entity description: Bob Ellis was an Australian screenwriter, author, and political commentator known for his sharp wit and influential contributions to film, theatre, and public discourse.
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A.
Joe Ellis
Joe Ellis is an American sports executive best known as the longtime president and CEO of the Denver Broncos in the National Football League.
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B.
David Ellingson
David Ellingson is a songwriter best known for co-writing the hit ballad "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer," popularized by Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes.
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C.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
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D.
John Eales
John Eales is a former Australian rugby union lock widely regarded as one of the sport’s greatest players, renowned for his leadership, lineout prowess, and goal-kicking ability.
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E.
William Mathews
William Mathews was a 19th-century British mountaineer notable for pioneering ascents in the Alps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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film director ⓘ journalist ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ political commentator ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Anne Brooksbank ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-05-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-04-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Sydney ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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non-fiction ⓘ political commentary ⓘ |
| hasChild | three children ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential contributions to Australian film
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influential contributions to Australian theatre ⓘ influential contributions to public discourse in Australia ⓘ sharp wit ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Bob Ellis ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Goodbye Paradise
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Man of Flowers ⓘ Newsfront ⓘ So It Goes ⓘ The Everlasting Secret Family ⓘ The Nostradamus Kid ⓘ The Nostradamus Kid (film) ⓘ The Things We Did Last Summer ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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film director ⓘ journalist ⓘ playwright ⓘ political commentator ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ speechwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
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linked to:
Lismore
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| placeOfDeath | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Australian Labor Party sympathiser ⓘ |
| residence | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ⓘ |
| spouse | Anne Brooksbank ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
The Australian
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The Sydney Morning Herald ⓘ various Australian newspapers ⓘ |
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: Bob Ellis Description of subject: Bob Ellis was an Australian screenwriter, author, and political commentator known for his sharp wit and influential contributions to film, theatre, and public discourse.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.