Jack Irish
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Jack Irish is a fictional Australian former criminal lawyer turned private investigator and debt collector, best known as the title character in a series of crime novels by Peter Temple and their television adaptations.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Irish canonical | 3 |
| Jack Irish (TV films) | 1 |
| Jack Irish (TV series) | 1 |
| Jack Irish novel series | 1 |
| Jack Irish series | 1 |
| Jack Irish television series | 1 |
| Jack Irish: Bad Debts (TV film) | 1 |
| Jack Irish: Black Tide (TV film) | 1 |
| Jack Irish: Dead Point (TV film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T823854 — 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: Jack Irish Context triple: [Guy Pearce, knownFor, Jack Irish]
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A.
Callaghan
Callaghan is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals in politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Peter James
Peter James is a bestselling British crime and thriller novelist, best known for his Roy Grace detective series.
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C.
James Arthur Monk
James Arthur Monk, better known as Art Monk, is a Hall of Fame former NFL wide receiver renowned for his prolific career with the Washington Redskins and multiple Super Bowl victories.
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D.
Fergus Cullen
Fergus Cullen is an American political strategist and former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party.
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E.
Robin McLeavy
Robin McLeavy is an Australian actress best known for her role as Eva in the television Western drama series "Hell on Wheels."
- 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: Jack Irish Target entity description: Jack Irish is a fictional Australian former criminal lawyer turned private investigator and debt collector, best known as the title character in a series of crime novels by Peter Temple and their television adaptations.
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A.
Callaghan
Callaghan is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals in politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Peter James
Peter James is a bestselling British crime and thriller novelist, best known for his Roy Grace detective series.
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C.
James Arthur Monk
James Arthur Monk, better known as Art Monk, is a Hall of Fame former NFL wide receiver renowned for his prolific career with the Washington Redskins and multiple Super Bowl victories.
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D.
Fergus Cullen
Fergus Cullen is an American political strategist and former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party.
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E.
Robin McLeavy
Robin McLeavy is an Australian actress best known for her role as Eva in the television Western drama series "Hell on Wheels."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Jack Irish
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Jack Irish novel series
Jack Irish television films ⓘ Jack Irish self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Jack Irish television series
|
| basedIn |
Melbourne
ⓘ
surface form:
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
|
| characterOrigin | novel ⓘ |
| characterType | private detective ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| creator | Peter Temple ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Jack Irish
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Jack Irish series
|
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Jack Irish
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Jack Irish (TV series)
Jack Irish self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (TV film)
Jack Irish self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Jack Irish: Black Tide (TV film)
Jack Irish self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Jack Irish: Dead Point (TV film)
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
novel
ⓘ
television film ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bad Debts
ⓘ
Black Tide ⓘ Dead Point ⓘ White Dog ⓘ |
| occupation |
criminal lawyer
ⓘ
debt collector ⓘ private investigator ⓘ |
| setting | Melbourne ⓘ |
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: Jack Irish Description of subject: Jack Irish is a fictional Australian former criminal lawyer turned private investigator and debt collector, best known as the title character in a series of crime novels by Peter Temple and their television adaptations.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jack Irish novel series
this entity surface form:
Jack Irish television series
this entity surface form:
Jack Irish series
this entity surface form:
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (TV film)
this entity surface form:
Jack Irish: Black Tide (TV film)
this entity surface form:
Jack Irish: Dead Point (TV film)
this entity surface form:
Jack Irish (TV series)
this entity surface form:
Jack Irish (TV films)