Michael Hastings
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Michael Hastings was a British playwright and screenwriter known for his stage and television works, including adaptations of notable literary and historical subjects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Hastings canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5531700 — 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 Hastings Context triple: [Tom & Viv, screenwriter, Michael Hastings]
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A.
Chris Stevens
Chris Stevens is a songwriter best known for co-writing the R&B ballad "You & I (Nobody in the World)."
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B.
Jeremy Scahill
Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author known for his reporting on U.S. foreign policy, private military contractors, and national security issues.
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C.
James D. Foley
James D. Foley is a computer scientist best known for his pioneering work and influential textbooks in the field of computer graphics.
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D.
Greg Kouri
Greg Kouri was a Canadian entrepreneur and early investor best known for co-founding Zip2 alongside Elon and Kimbal Musk.
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E.
Christopher Jordan Wallace
Christopher Jordan Wallace is an American actor and rapper, best known as the son of legendary hip-hop artist The Notorious B.I.G.
- 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 Hastings Target entity description: Michael Hastings was a British playwright and screenwriter known for his stage and television works, including adaptations of notable literary and historical subjects.
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A.
Chris Stevens
Chris Stevens is a songwriter best known for co-writing the R&B ballad "You & I (Nobody in the World)."
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B.
Jeremy Scahill
Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author known for his reporting on U.S. foreign policy, private military contractors, and national security issues.
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C.
James D. Foley
James D. Foley is a computer scientist best known for his pioneering work and influential textbooks in the field of computer graphics.
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D.
Greg Kouri
Greg Kouri was a Canadian entrepreneur and early investor best known for co-founding Zip2 alongside Elon and Kimbal Musk.
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E.
Christopher Jordan Wallace
Christopher Jordan Wallace is an American actor and rapper, best known as the son of legendary hip-hop artist The Notorious B.I.G.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedOn |
historical events
ⓘ
literary sources ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
playwriting
ⓘ
screenwriting ⓘ television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasWorkType |
adaptation
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screenplay ⓘ stage play ⓘ television play ⓘ |
| influencedBy | British theatre tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
adaptations of historical subjects
ⓘ
adaptations of literary works ⓘ stage plays ⓘ television dramas ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Calico
ⓘ
Gloo Joo ⓘ The American Clock (adaptation) ⓘ The Cutting of the Cloth ⓘ The Draughtsman’s Contract (television adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
The Draughtsman's Contract
The Emperor ⓘ The Nightcomers (screenplay) ⓘ
linked to:
The Nightcomers
Tom and Viv ⓘ
linked to:
Tom & Viv
Tom and Viv (stage play about T. S. Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood) ⓘ
linked to:
Tom & Viv (play)
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| occupation |
playwright
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
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 Hastings Description of subject: Michael Hastings was a British playwright and screenwriter known for his stage and television works, including adaptations of notable literary and historical subjects.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.