The Shiralee
E768854
The Shiralee is an Australian drama, originally a novel and later adapted into a film and television miniseries, about a swagman traveling the outback with his young daughter.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Shiralee canonical | 9 |
| The Shiralee (novel) | 5 |
| The Shiralee (1957 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8965848 — 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: The Shiralee Context triple: [Bryan Brown, notableWork, The Shiralee]
-
A.
Lady of the East
Lady of the East is an epithet of the ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, highlighting her protective and benevolent aspects associated with the rising sun and the eastern horizon.
-
B.
The Whistler
The Whistler is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows an investigation into judicial corruption and organized crime in Florida.
-
C.
The Lark
"The Lark" is a lyrical piano piece, often associated with Romantic-era Russian repertoire, known for its delicate, songlike melody and evocative, birdlike figurations.
-
D.
The Jewel That Was Ours
The Jewel That Was Ours is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, featuring a complex murder investigation intertwined with the theft of a valuable historical artifact in Oxford.
-
E.
Lalla Rookh
Lalla Rookh is an 1817 Oriental romance poem by Irish writer Thomas Moore, famed for its exotic setting and interwoven tales of love and politics.
- 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: The Shiralee Target entity description: The Shiralee is an Australian drama, originally a novel and later adapted into a film and television miniseries, about a swagman traveling the outback with his young daughter.
-
A.
Lady of the East
Lady of the East is an epithet of the ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, highlighting her protective and benevolent aspects associated with the rising sun and the eastern horizon.
-
B.
The Whistler
The Whistler is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows an investigation into judicial corruption and organized crime in Florida.
-
C.
The Lark
"The Lark" is a lyrical piano piece, often associated with Romantic-era Russian repertoire, known for its delicate, songlike melody and evocative, birdlike figurations.
-
D.
The Jewel That Was Ours
The Jewel That Was Ours is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, featuring a complex murder investigation intertwined with the theft of a valuable historical artifact in Oxford.
-
E.
Lalla Rookh
Lalla Rookh is an 1817 Oriental romance poem by Irish writer Thomas Moore, famed for its exotic setting and interwoven tales of love and politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
novel ⓘ television miniseries ⓘ |
| author | D'Arcy Niland ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Shiralee (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Shiralee
The Shiralee (novel) ⓘ
linked to:
The Shiralee
|
| countryOfOrigin |
Australia
ⓘ
Australia ⓘ Australia ⓘ Australia ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| format | miniseries ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ drama television series ⓘ outback fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Shiralee (1957 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Shiralee
The Shiralee (1987 miniseries) ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Buster
ⓘ
Buster ⓘ Macauley ⓘ Macauley ⓘ swagman ⓘ young daughter ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 2 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Seven Network ⓘ |
| publicationCountry | Australia ⓘ |
| setting |
Australian outback
ⓘ
Australian outback ⓘ Australian outback ⓘ Australian outback ⓘ |
| theme |
father–daughter relationship
ⓘ
life in the Australian outback ⓘ responsibility ⓘ |
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: The Shiralee Description of subject: The Shiralee is an Australian drama, originally a novel and later adapted into a film and television miniseries, about a swagman traveling the outback with his young daughter.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Shiralee
linked to: The Shiralee
linked to: The Shiralee
subject linked to:
The Shiralee
linked to: The Shiralee
subject linked to:
The Shiralee
linked to: The Shiralee
subject linked to:
The Shiralee
linked to: The Shiralee