Stephen MacLean
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Stephen MacLean was an Australian screenwriter and filmmaker best known for his work on music-infused films and television, including the cult musical comedy "Starstruck" (1982).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stephen MacLean canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T977039 — 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: Stephen MacLean Context triple: [Starstruck (1982 film), screenwriter, Stephen MacLean]
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A.
Ewen MacIntosh
Ewen MacIntosh is a British actor and comedian best known for playing the deadpan accountant Keith Bishop in the original UK version of "The Office."
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B.
Bob MacKinnon
Bob MacKinnon was an American basketball coach known for his work in the ABA and NBA, including leading the Spirits of St. Louis.
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C.
Andrew Duncan
Andrew Duncan was a British industrialist and politician who served as the United Kingdom’s Minister of Supply during the Second World War.
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D.
Duncan Reid
Duncan Reid is a musician best known as the former bassist and vocalist for the UK punk band The Boys and for his solo work with Duncan Reid and the Big Heads.
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E.
Graeme Gibson
Graeme Gibson was a Canadian novelist, environmentalist, and cultural advocate known for his contributions to Canadian literature and his long partnership with writer Margaret Atwood.
- 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: Stephen MacLean Target entity description: Stephen MacLean was an Australian screenwriter and filmmaker best known for his work on music-infused films and television, including the cult musical comedy "Starstruck" (1982).
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A.
Ewen MacIntosh
Ewen MacIntosh is a British actor and comedian best known for playing the deadpan accountant Keith Bishop in the original UK version of "The Office."
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B.
Bob MacKinnon
Bob MacKinnon was an American basketball coach known for his work in the ABA and NBA, including leading the Spirits of St. Louis.
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C.
Andrew Duncan
Andrew Duncan was a British industrialist and politician who served as the United Kingdom’s Minister of Supply during the Second World War.
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D.
Duncan Reid
Duncan Reid is a musician best known as the former bassist and vocalist for the UK punk band The Boys and for his solo work with Duncan Reid and the Big Heads.
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E.
Graeme Gibson
Graeme Gibson was a Canadian novelist, environmentalist, and cultural advocate known for his contributions to Canadian literature and his long partnership with writer Margaret Atwood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian
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film ⓘ film ⓘ film director ⓘ filmmaker ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Australia
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Australia ⓘ |
| director | Gillian Armstrong ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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music-infused film ⓘ musical comedy film ⓘ musical film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | cult musical comedy film Starstruck (1982) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
In Search of Anna
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Starstruck ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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filmmaker ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1982 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Stephen MacLean
self-linksurface differs
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Stephen MacLean self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| workLocation | Australia ⓘ |
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: Stephen MacLean Description of subject: Stephen MacLean was an Australian screenwriter and filmmaker best known for his work on music-infused films and television, including the cult musical comedy "Starstruck" (1982).
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Starstruck
subject surface form:
In Search of Anna