Tim Conigrave
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Tim Conigrave was an Australian actor, activist, and writer best known for his acclaimed memoir "Holding the Man," which chronicles his long-term relationship with his partner and their experiences during the AIDS crisis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tim Conigrave canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5210104 — 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: Tim Conigrave Context triple: [Melbourne Grammar School, hasNotableAlumni, Tim Conigrave]
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A.
Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin is the humanoid robot protagonist of Isaac Asimov’s “The Bicentennial Man,” whose centuries-long journey explores what it means to become human.
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B.
Steven McAuliffe
Steven McAuliffe is an American federal judge and the widower of Christa McAuliffe, the teacher-astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
Robin Le Poidevin
Robin Le Poidevin is a British philosopher known for his work in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of time.
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D.
Adam Simpson
Adam Simpson is a former Australian rules footballer and the premiership-winning head coach of the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League.
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E.
Chris King
Chris King is an individual known for being the subject of writing by Amy.
- 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: Tim Conigrave Target entity description: Tim Conigrave was an Australian actor, activist, and writer best known for his acclaimed memoir "Holding the Man," which chronicles his long-term relationship with his partner and their experiences during the AIDS crisis.
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A.
Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin is the humanoid robot protagonist of Isaac Asimov’s “The Bicentennial Man,” whose centuries-long journey explores what it means to become human.
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B.
Steven McAuliffe
Steven McAuliffe is an American federal judge and the widower of Christa McAuliffe, the teacher-astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
Robin Le Poidevin
Robin Le Poidevin is a British philosopher known for his work in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of time.
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D.
Adam Simpson
Adam Simpson is a former Australian rules footballer and the premiership-winning head coach of the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League.
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E.
Chris King
Chris King is an individual known for being the subject of writing by Amy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBT rights activist
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memoirist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | AIDS activism ⓘ |
| basedIn | Sydney theatre community ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | AIDS-related illness ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-11-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1994-10-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
National Institute of Dramatic Art
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xavier College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Australian of Irish descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Conigrave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Timothy Conigrave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Timothy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
Australian queer literature
ⓘ
LGBT visibility in Australia ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | LGBT rights movement ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
chronicling the AIDS crisis in Australia
ⓘ
depicting a long-term same-sex relationship ⓘ |
| notableWork | Holding the Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
ⓘ
actor ⓘ playwright ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| partner | John Caleo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| periodOfActivity |
1980s
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early 1990s ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Melbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Sydney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | raised Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| residence |
Melbourne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sydney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| stateOfBirth | Victoria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfDeath | New South Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Holding the Man (film)
NERFINISHED
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Holding the Man (stage adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote | Holding the Man 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: Tim Conigrave Description of subject: Tim Conigrave was an Australian actor, activist, and writer best known for his acclaimed memoir "Holding the Man," which chronicles his long-term relationship with his partner and their experiences during the AIDS crisis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.