David Greig
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David Greig is a Scottish playwright and theatre director known for his wide-ranging stage works and adaptations, including the book for the musical "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Greig canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10469685 — 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 Greig Context triple: [Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (stage musical), bookWriter, David Greig]
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A.
Joe Penhall
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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B.
Desmond Boal
Desmond Boal was a Northern Irish barrister and politician who co-founded the Democratic Unionist Party alongside Ian Paisley and played a key role in shaping its early unionist and hardline policies.
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C.
Dennis Kelly
Dennis Kelly is a British playwright and screenwriter known for his darkly comic and often unsettling work in theatre and television, including the acclaimed series "Utopia" and the stage musical "Matilda."
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D.
Martin Crimp
Martin Crimp is a contemporary British playwright and translator known for his formally inventive, often darkly comic works and influential contributions to modern European theatre.
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E.
Mark Lamos
Mark Lamos is an American theater and opera director known for his innovative stagings on Broadway and at major opera companies.
- 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 Greig Target entity description: David Greig is a Scottish playwright and theatre director known for his wide-ranging stage works and adaptations, including the book for the musical "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
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A.
Joe Penhall
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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B.
Desmond Boal
Desmond Boal was a Northern Irish barrister and politician who co-founded the Democratic Unionist Party alongside Ian Paisley and played a key role in shaping its early unionist and hardline policies.
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C.
Dennis Kelly
Dennis Kelly is a British playwright and screenwriter known for his darkly comic and often unsettling work in theatre and television, including the acclaimed series "Utopia" and the stage musical "Matilda."
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D.
Martin Crimp
Martin Crimp is a contemporary British playwright and translator known for his formally inventive, often darkly comic works and influential contributions to modern European theatre.
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E.
Mark Lamos
Mark Lamos is an American theater and opera director known for his innovative stagings on Broadway and at major opera companies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: David Greig Description of subject: David Greig is a Scottish playwright and theatre director known for his wide-ranging stage works and adaptations, including the book for the musical "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.