Vincent Lingiari
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Vincent Lingiari was an Aboriginal Australian elder and land rights activist best known for leading the Wave Hill walk-off, a pivotal event in the struggle for Indigenous land rights in Australia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vincent Lingiari canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12196585 — 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: Vincent Lingiari Context triple: [Lingiari, namedAfter, Vincent Lingiari]
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A.
Peter Djigirr
Peter Djigirr is an Indigenous Australian filmmaker best known for co-directing the acclaimed film "Ten Canoes," one of the first feature films entirely in an Australian Aboriginal language.
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B.
Enos Namatjira
Enos Namatjira was an Australian Aboriginal artist known for his distinctive landscape paintings that continued the celebrated Hermannsburg watercolour tradition established by his father, Albert Namatjira.
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C.
Eddie Koiki Mabo
Eddie Koiki Mabo was an Indigenous Australian activist whose landmark legal challenge led to the historic 1992 High Court decision recognizing native title and overturning the doctrine of terra nullius in Australia.
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D.
Woollarawarre Bennelong
Woollarawarre Bennelong was a prominent Eora Aboriginal man who served as an intermediary between Indigenous Australians and the British colonists in early Sydney.
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E.
Sidney Rivers
Sidney Rivers is a relatively obscure individual whose name is noted primarily as a recorded bearer of the surname Rivers.
- 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: Vincent Lingiari Target entity description: Vincent Lingiari was an Aboriginal Australian elder and land rights activist best known for leading the Wave Hill walk-off, a pivotal event in the struggle for Indigenous land rights in Australia.
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A.
Peter Djigirr
Peter Djigirr is an Indigenous Australian filmmaker best known for co-directing the acclaimed film "Ten Canoes," one of the first feature films entirely in an Australian Aboriginal language.
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B.
Enos Namatjira
Enos Namatjira was an Australian Aboriginal artist known for his distinctive landscape paintings that continued the celebrated Hermannsburg watercolour tradition established by his father, Albert Namatjira.
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C.
Eddie Koiki Mabo
Eddie Koiki Mabo was an Indigenous Australian activist whose landmark legal challenge led to the historic 1992 High Court decision recognizing native title and overturning the doctrine of terra nullius in Australia.
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D.
Woollarawarre Bennelong
Woollarawarre Bennelong was a prominent Eora Aboriginal man who served as an intermediary between Indigenous Australians and the British colonists in early Sydney.
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E.
Sidney Rivers
Sidney Rivers is a relatively obscure individual whose name is noted primarily as a recorded bearer of the surname Rivers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.