Andrew McGahan
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Andrew McGahan was an acclaimed Australian novelist and screenwriter known for his darkly comic and socially incisive works, including the Miles Franklin Award–winning novel "The White Earth."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Andrew McGahan canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3671699 — 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: Andrew McGahan Context triple: [Praise (film), screenwriter, Andrew McGahan]
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A.
Neil McEvoy
Neil McEvoy is a Canadian football executive best known for serving in senior football operations and personnel roles, including general manager, with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.
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B.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
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C.
Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan is an acclaimed American artist best known for his influential science fiction and fantasy book and album cover illustrations.
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D.
Stephen McCauley
Stephen McCauley is an American novelist known for his witty, character-driven fiction exploring contemporary relationships and urban life.
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E.
Douglas McGrath
Douglas McGrath was an American screenwriter, director, and actor known for his literary adaptations and collaborations with Woody Allen.
- 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: Andrew McGahan Target entity description: Andrew McGahan was an acclaimed Australian novelist and screenwriter known for his darkly comic and socially incisive works, including the Miles Franklin Award–winning novel "The White Earth."
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A.
Neil McEvoy
Neil McEvoy is a Canadian football executive best known for serving in senior football operations and personnel roles, including general manager, with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.
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B.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
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C.
Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan is an acclaimed American artist best known for his influential science fiction and fantasy book and album cover illustrations.
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D.
Stephen McCauley
Stephen McCauley is an American novelist known for his witty, character-driven fiction exploring contemporary relationships and urban life.
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E.
Douglas McGrath
Douglas McGrath was an American screenwriter, director, and actor known for his literary adaptations and collaborations with Woody Allen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Andrew McGahan Description of subject: Andrew McGahan was an acclaimed Australian novelist and screenwriter known for his darkly comic and socially incisive works, including the Miles Franklin Award–winning novel "The White Earth."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Praise (film)
subject surface form:
The White Earth