John Duigan
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John Duigan is an Australian film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas such as "The Year My Voice Broke" and "Sirens."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Duigan canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11235876 — 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: John Duigan Context triple: [Lawn Dogs, director, John Duigan]
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A.
Arthur Dignam
Arthur Dignam was an Australian actor known for his distinctive character roles in film, television, and theatre.
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B.
Philip McKeon
Philip McKeon was an American actor best known for playing Tommy Hyatt, the son of the title character, on the sitcom "Alice."
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C.
John McEwan
John McEwan is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the McEwan surname rather than broad public recognition.
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D.
John Cahill
John Cahill is a name shared by several notable individuals, including figures in politics, law, and sports.
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E.
Joseph Toal
Joseph Toal is a Scottish Roman Catholic prelate who serves as the Bishop of Motherwell.
- 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: John Duigan Target entity description: John Duigan is an Australian film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas such as "The Year My Voice Broke" and "Sirens."
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A.
Arthur Dignam
Arthur Dignam was an Australian actor known for his distinctive character roles in film, television, and theatre.
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B.
Philip McKeon
Philip McKeon was an American actor best known for playing Tommy Hyatt, the son of the title character, on the sitcom "Alice."
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C.
John McEwan
John McEwan is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the McEwan surname rather than broad public recognition.
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D.
John Cahill
John Cahill is a name shared by several notable individuals, including figures in politics, law, and sports.
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E.
Joseph Toal
Joseph Toal is a Scottish Roman Catholic prelate who serves as the Bishop of Motherwell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian film director
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Australian screenwriter ⓘ feature film ⓘ feature film ⓘ feature film ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Australia
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Australia ⓘ Australia ⓘ |
| director |
John Duigan
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John Duigan ⓘ John Duigan ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | character-driven drama ⓘ |
| hasWorkedIn |
American cinema
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Australian cinema ⓘ British cinema ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableGenre | drama film ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Flirting
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Head in the Clouds ⓘ Mouth to Mouth ⓘ Romero ⓘ Sirens ⓘ The Journey of August King ⓘ The Leading Man ⓘ The Year My Voice Broke ⓘ Wide Sargasso Sea ⓘ Winter of Our Dreams ⓘ
linked to:
The Winter of Our Dreams
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| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
John Duigan
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John Duigan ⓘ John Duigan ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Australia
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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: John Duigan Description of subject: John Duigan is an Australian film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas such as "The Year My Voice Broke" and "Sirens."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Romero" (1989)
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John Duigan
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John Duigan
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John Duigan
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John Duigan
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John Duigan
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