Mark Donaldson
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Mark Donaldson is an Australian soldier and war hero renowned for being the first person awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia for his gallantry in Afghanistan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mark Donaldson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5286357 — 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: Mark Donaldson Context triple: [Victoria Cross for Australia, firstRecipient, Mark Donaldson]
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A.
Eric McLeod
Eric McLeod is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood action and genre movies, including the monster crossover blockbuster "Godzilla vs. Kong."
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B.
Mark McDermott
Mark McDermott is a person notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the McDermott surname.
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C.
Tim McIlrath
Tim McIlrath is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary songwriter of the punk rock band Rise Against.
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D.
Mark Bradshaw
Mark Bradshaw is an Australian composer best known for his atmospheric film and television scores, particularly his collaborations with director Jane Campion.
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E.
Michael Wells
Michael Wells is a musician best known as a member of the American alternative country/rock band The Walkabouts.
- 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: Mark Donaldson Target entity description: Mark Donaldson is an Australian soldier and war hero renowned for being the first person awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia for his gallantry in Afghanistan.
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A.
Eric McLeod
Eric McLeod is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood action and genre movies, including the monster crossover blockbuster "Godzilla vs. Kong."
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B.
Mark McDermott
Mark McDermott is a person notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the McDermott surname.
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C.
Tim McIlrath
Tim McIlrath is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary songwriter of the punk rock band Rise Against.
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D.
Mark Bradshaw
Mark Bradshaw is an Australian composer best known for his atmospheric film and television scores, particularly his collaborations with director Jane Campion.
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E.
Michael Wells
Michael Wells is a musician best known as a member of the American alternative country/rock band The Walkabouts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| allegiance | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Victoria Cross for Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
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surface form:
War in Afghanistan
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| decoratedFor | gallantry under enemy fire ⓘ |
| era | 21st century ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Mark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | VC ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryDecoration | Victoria Cross for Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
bravery
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gallantry ⓘ |
| hasRole | combat soldier ⓘ |
| isFirstRecipientOf | Victoria Cross for Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | Australian military history ⓘ |
| isWarHeroOf | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Australian Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | non-commissioned officer ⓘ |
| name | Mark Donaldson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first person awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia
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gallantry in Afghanistan ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| residence | Australia ⓘ |
| serviceIn |
Australian Special Forces
NERFINISHED
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Special Air Service Regiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatreOfOperations | Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mark Donaldson Description of subject: Mark Donaldson is an Australian soldier and war hero renowned for being the first person awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia for his gallantry in Afghanistan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.