Richard Campion
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Richard Campion was a New Zealand theatre and opera director and co-founder of the New Zealand Players, known also as the father of acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Campion canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3066148 — 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: Richard Campion Context triple: [Jane Campion, parent, Richard Campion]
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A.
Charles McNaughton
Charles McNaughton was a British actor active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in films and on stage.
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B.
William of Baskerville
William of Baskerville is a sharp-witted Franciscan friar and proto-detective who investigates a series of mysterious deaths in a medieval Italian monastery.
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C.
Charles Lanyon
Charles Lanyon was a prominent 19th-century Irish architect known for designing many notable public buildings in Belfast and across Ulster.
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D.
Frank Campion
Frank Campion is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Welland, Ontario.
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E.
John Black
John Black is a television director best known for his work on the Doctor Who spin-off special "K-9 and Company."
- 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: Richard Campion Target entity description: Richard Campion was a New Zealand theatre and opera director and co-founder of the New Zealand Players, known also as the father of acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion.
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A.
Charles McNaughton
Charles McNaughton was a British actor active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in films and on stage.
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B.
William of Baskerville
William of Baskerville is a sharp-witted Franciscan friar and proto-detective who investigates a series of mysterious deaths in a medieval Italian monastery.
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C.
Charles Lanyon
Charles Lanyon was a prominent 19th-century Irish architect known for designing many notable public buildings in Belfast and across Ulster.
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D.
Frank Campion
Frank Campion is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Welland, Ontario.
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E.
John Black
John Black is a television director best known for his work on the Doctor Who spin-off special "K-9 and Company."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
opera director
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person ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| child | Jane Campion ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | New Zealand Players ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New Zealand ⓘ |
| familyRelation | father of Jane Campion ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding the New Zealand Players
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directing opera in New Zealand ⓘ directing theatre in New Zealand ⓘ |
| notableWork | New Zealand Players ⓘ |
| occupation |
opera director
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theatre director ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New Zealand ⓘ |
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: Richard Campion Description of subject: Richard Campion was a New Zealand theatre and opera director and co-founder of the New Zealand Players, known also as the father of acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.