Joe Penhall
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Joe Penhall is a British playwright and screenwriter known for works such as the play "Blue/Orange" and for writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joe Penhall canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9060571 — 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: Joe Penhall Context triple: [The Road, filmAdaptationScreenwriter, Joe Penhall]
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A.
Jez Butterworth
Jez Butterworth is a British playwright and screenwriter known for acclaimed works such as the play "Jerusalem" and screenplays including "Edge of Tomorrow" and "Ford v Ferrari."
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B.
Joseph Godber
Joseph Godber was a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts in the mid-20th century, including roles in agriculture and foreign affairs.
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C.
Philip Ridley
Philip Ridley is a British playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and visual artist known for his dark, surreal works in theatre and cinema, including the cult film "The Reflecting Skin."
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D.
David Williamson
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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E.
David Hare
David Hare is a prominent British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically charged stage works and acclaimed film adaptations such as "The Hours."
- 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: Joe Penhall Target entity description: Joe Penhall is a British playwright and screenwriter known for works such as the play "Blue/Orange" and for writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road."
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A.
Jez Butterworth
Jez Butterworth is a British playwright and screenwriter known for acclaimed works such as the play "Jerusalem" and screenplays including "Edge of Tomorrow" and "Ford v Ferrari."
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B.
Joseph Godber
Joseph Godber was a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts in the mid-20th century, including roles in agriculture and foreign affairs.
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C.
Philip Ridley
Philip Ridley is a British playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and visual artist known for his dark, surreal works in theatre and cinema, including the cult film "The Reflecting Skin."
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D.
David Williamson
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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E.
David Hare
David Hare is a prominent British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically charged stage works and acclaimed film adaptations such as "The Hours."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage play ⓘ |
| adaptedFrom |
The Road (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Road
|
| author |
Cormac McCarthy
ⓘ
Joe Penhall ⓘ Joe Penhall ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Cormac McCarthy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
film screenplay ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blue/Orange
ⓘ
The Road (screenplay) ⓘ |
| occupation |
playwright
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Joe Penhall ⓘ |
| wrotePlay | Blue/Orange ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor | The Road (2009 film) ⓘ |
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: Joe Penhall Description of subject: Joe Penhall is a British playwright and screenwriter known for works such as the play "Blue/Orange" and for writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.