Piers Ashworth
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Piers Ashworth is a British screenwriter known for co-writing popular comedy and genre films, including entries in the St Trinian’s series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Piers Ashworth canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10737230 — 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: Piers Ashworth Context triple: [St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, screenwriter, Piers Ashworth]
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A.
Nigel Walmsley
Nigel Walmsley is a fictional British astronaut and scientist who becomes a central figure in Gregory Benford’s hard science fiction novels, confronting first contact and cosmic-scale mysteries.
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B.
Mick Audsley
Mick Audsley is a British film editor known for his work on numerous major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Terry Gilliam and Stephen Frears.
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C.
Colin Welland
Colin Welland was an English actor and screenwriter best known for winning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film "Chariots of Fire."
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D.
Barry Ackroyd
Barry Ackroyd is a British cinematographer renowned for his gritty, handheld visual style in films such as The Hurt Locker, United 93, and Captain Phillips.
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E.
Phil Collinson
Phil Collinson is a British television producer best known for his work on the revived era of Doctor Who.
- 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: Piers Ashworth Target entity description: Piers Ashworth is a British screenwriter known for co-writing popular comedy and genre films, including entries in the St Trinian’s series.
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A.
Nigel Walmsley
Nigel Walmsley is a fictional British astronaut and scientist who becomes a central figure in Gregory Benford’s hard science fiction novels, confronting first contact and cosmic-scale mysteries.
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B.
Mick Audsley
Mick Audsley is a British film editor known for his work on numerous major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Terry Gilliam and Stephen Frears.
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C.
Colin Welland
Colin Welland was an English actor and screenwriter best known for winning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film "Chariots of Fire."
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D.
Barry Ackroyd
Barry Ackroyd is a British cinematographer renowned for his gritty, handheld visual style in films such as The Hurt Locker, United 93, and Captain Phillips.
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E.
Phil Collinson
Phil Collinson is a British television producer best known for his work on the revived era of Doctor Who.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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genre film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-writing St Trinian’s films
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writing British comedy films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
St Trinian’s
ⓘ
linked to:
St Trinian's
St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold ⓘ
linked to:
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
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| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Piers Ashworth Description of subject: Piers Ashworth is a British screenwriter known for co-writing popular comedy and genre films, including entries in the St Trinian’s series.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.