David Williamson
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David Williamson is a prominent Australian playwright and screenwriter known for his influential work in theatre and film since the 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Williamson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5148319 — 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 Williamson Context triple: [Gallipoli, screenwriter, David Williamson]
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A.
Martin Boddey
Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
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B.
Hugh Keays-Byrne
Hugh Keays-Byrne was an English-Australian character actor best known for his villainous roles in the Mad Max film franchise, including his portrayal of Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road.
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C.
Robert Toms
Robert Toms was the prosecutor in the landmark Ossian Sweet trial, a pivotal civil rights case in 1920s Detroit involving racial tensions and self-defense.
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D.
Duncan MacMillan
Duncan MacMillan is an American businessman best known as a co-founder of Interactive Data Corporation, a major provider of financial market data and analytics.
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E.
Duncan MacMillan
Duncan MacMillan is an American businessman best known as one of the co-founders of the global financial information and media company Bloomberg L.P.
- 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 Williamson Target entity description: David Williamson is a prominent Australian playwright and screenwriter known for his influential work in theatre and film since the 1970s.
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A.
Martin Boddey
Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
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B.
Hugh Keays-Byrne
Hugh Keays-Byrne was an English-Australian character actor best known for his villainous roles in the Mad Max film franchise, including his portrayal of Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road.
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C.
Robert Toms
Robert Toms was the prosecutor in the landmark Ossian Sweet trial, a pivotal civil rights case in 1920s Detroit involving racial tensions and self-defense.
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D.
Duncan MacMillan
Duncan MacMillan is an American businessman best known as a co-founder of Interactive Data Corporation, a major provider of financial market data and analytics.
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E.
Duncan MacMillan
Duncan MacMillan is an American businessman best known as one of the co-founders of the global financial information and media company Bloomberg L.P.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dramatist
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person ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
AFI Award for Best Screenplay
NERFINISHED
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Australian Film Institute Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Order of Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| careerStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-02-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Monash University
NERFINISHED
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University of Melbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
engineering
ⓘ
psychology ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Felix Williamson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rory Williamson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | Australian contemporary drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Australian New Wave theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Australian film
ⓘ
Australian theatre ⓘ |
| notableIdea | social satire of Australian middle class ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brilliant Lies
NERFINISHED
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Dead White Males NERFINISHED ⓘ Don’s Party NERFINISHED ⓘ Emerald City NERFINISHED ⓘ Face to Face NERFINISHED ⓘ Managing Carmen NERFINISHED ⓘ Money and Friends NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanctuary NERFINISHED ⓘ The Club NERFINISHED ⓘ The Removalists NERFINISHED ⓘ Travelling North NERFINISHED ⓘ Up for Grabs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
drama teacher
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Melbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Sydney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenplay |
Balibo
NERFINISHED
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Don’s Party (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Gallipoli NERFINISHED ⓘ Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Phar Lap NERFINISHED ⓘ The Club (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Year of Living Dangerously NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Kristin Williamson 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 Williamson Description of subject: David Williamson is a prominent Australian playwright and screenwriter known for his influential work in theatre and film since the 1970s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.