David Hicks
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David Hicks is an Australian man who was detained by the United States at Guantánamo Bay and became widely known for challenging his detention in landmark legal cases related to the War on Terror.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Hicks canonical | 2 |
| David Matthew Hicks | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6260163 — 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 Hicks Context triple: [opinion in Rasul v. Bush, petitioner, David Hicks]
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A.
Blaine Manning
Blaine Manning is a former Canadian professional lacrosse forward best known as a star player and multiple-time NLL champion with the Toronto Rock.
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B.
Khaled al-Hassan
Khaled al-Hassan was a Palestinian politician and founding leader of the Fatah movement who played a key role in shaping modern Palestinian nationalism.
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C.
John McCabe
John McCabe is the enigmatic, self-styled gambler and entrepreneur at the center of Robert Altman’s revisionist Western film "McCabe & Mrs. Miller."
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D.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a Pakistani Islamist militant and senior al-Qaeda member widely regarded as the chief planner of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
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E.
Robert Reid
Robert Reid was a prominent Scottish architect of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his influential neoclassical public buildings in Edinburgh.
- 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 Hicks Target entity description: David Hicks is an Australian man who was detained by the United States at Guantánamo Bay and became widely known for challenging his detention in landmark legal cases related to the War on Terror.
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A.
Blaine Manning
Blaine Manning is a former Canadian professional lacrosse forward best known as a star player and multiple-time NLL champion with the Toronto Rock.
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B.
Khaled al-Hassan
Khaled al-Hassan was a Palestinian politician and founding leader of the Fatah movement who played a key role in shaping modern Palestinian nationalism.
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C.
John McCabe
John McCabe is the enigmatic, self-styled gambler and entrepreneur at the center of Robert Altman’s revisionist Western film "McCabe & Mrs. Miller."
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D.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a Pakistani Islamist militant and senior al-Qaeda member widely regarded as the chief planner of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
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E.
Robert Reid
Robert Reid was a prominent Scottish architect of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his influential neoclassical public buildings in Edinburgh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian citizen
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| advocatedBy | Australian human rights groups ⓘ |
| appeal | sought to overturn his military commission conviction ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Lashkar-e-Taiba ⓘ |
| capturedBy |
Northern Alliance forces
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Alliance
|
| capturedIn | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| charge | providing material support for terrorism ⓘ |
| convictedBy | United States military commission ⓘ |
| convictionStatus | convicted in 2007 by military commission ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1975-08-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfRelease | 2007-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfTransfer | 2007-05 ⓘ |
| detainedAt |
Guantánamo Bay detention camp
ⓘ
linked to:
Guantánamo
Yatala Labour Prison ⓘ |
| detainedBy |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| extraditedTo | United States custody ⓘ |
| familyName | Hicks ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalCase |
Hicks v. Ruddock
ⓘ
challenges to legality of Guantánamo Bay military commissions ⓘ |
| legalDevelopment | 2015 U.S. court decision set aside his material support for terrorism conviction ⓘ |
| legalStatus | Guantánamo detainee ⓘ |
| militaryActivity |
spent time in Afghanistan prior to capture
ⓘ
trained with Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan ⓘ |
| name |
David Matthew Hicks
ⓘ
linked to:
David Hicks
|
| notableFor |
being detained at Guantánamo Bay
ⓘ
legal challenges to his detention ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
former Guantánamo detainee ⓘ former jackaroo ⓘ |
| participantIn |
War on Terror
ⓘ
linked to:
Global War on Terrorism
|
| placeOfBirth | Adelaide ⓘ |
| plea | guilty plea in 2007 to providing material support for terrorism ⓘ |
| religion | converted to Islam (later reported to have left the faith) ⓘ |
| residence | Adelaide region after release ⓘ |
| sentence | suspended sentence with time to be served in Australia ⓘ |
| spouse | Aloysia ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
extensive media coverage in Australia
ⓘ
public debate over Guantánamo Bay detentions ⓘ |
| transferredTo | Australia ⓘ |
| wrote | Guantánamo: My Journey ⓘ |
| yearOfCapture | 2001 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: David Hicks Description of subject: David Hicks is an Australian man who was detained by the United States at Guantánamo Bay and became widely known for challenging his detention in landmark legal cases related to the War on Terror.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Hicks