The Wog Boy
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The Wog Boy is a 2000 Australian comedy film starring Nick Giannopoulos as a lovable underachiever whose ethnic background and laid-back lifestyle lead to a series of humorous misadventures.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Wog Boy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6190303 — 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: The Wog Boy Context triple: [Ken Sallows, notableWork, The Wog Boy]
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A.
Junky
Junky is a semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs that candidly chronicles heroin addiction and the American drug underworld in the mid-20th century.
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B.
The Angry Boy
The Angry Boy is a famous bronze sculpture by Gustav Vigeland depicting a small child in a tantrum, prominently displayed in Oslo’s Vigeland Sculpture Park.
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C.
The Brown Book
The Brown Book is one of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s posthumously published lecture notes that outline his transitional philosophical ideas between the Tractatus and his later work in the Philosophical Investigations.
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D.
Wigger
Wigger is a river in Switzerland that flows through the Aare basin as one of its tributaries.
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E.
Jerilderie Letter
The Jerilderie Letter is a famous 1879 manifesto written by Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, outlining his grievances and justifying his actions before his capture and execution.
- 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: The Wog Boy Target entity description: The Wog Boy is a 2000 Australian comedy film starring Nick Giannopoulos as a lovable underachiever whose ethnic background and laid-back lifestyle lead to a series of humorous misadventures.
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A.
Junky
Junky is a semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs that candidly chronicles heroin addiction and the American drug underworld in the mid-20th century.
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B.
The Angry Boy
The Angry Boy is a famous bronze sculpture by Gustav Vigeland depicting a small child in a tantrum, prominently displayed in Oslo’s Vigeland Sculpture Park.
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C.
The Brown Book
The Brown Book is one of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s posthumously published lecture notes that outline his transitional philosophical ideas between the Tractatus and his later work in the Philosophical Investigations.
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D.
Wigger
Wigger is a river in Switzerland that flows through the Aare basin as one of its tributaries.
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E.
Jerilderie Letter
The Jerilderie Letter is a famous 1879 manifesto written by Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, outlining his grievances and justifying his actions before his capture and execution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian comedy film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Nick Giannopoulos’ stage persona ⓘ |
| boxOfficeRegion | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| certificate | M (Australia) ⓘ |
| character |
Celia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frankie NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Karamitsis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Ellery Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfRelease | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Alec Khaoli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Ken Sallows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Melbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
The Kings of Mykonos: Wog Boy 2
NERFINISHED
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Wog Boys Forever NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterEthnicity | Greek Australian ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | unemployed man ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Cezary Skubiszewski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | lovable underachiever’s misadventures ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularising the term "wog" in Australian mainstream comedy ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | Greek Australian community in Melbourne ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Smiley Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2000-03-09 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 92 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Chris Anastassiades
NERFINISHED
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Nick Giannopoulos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Melbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Abi Tucker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gerard Kennedy NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucy Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ Nick Giannopoulos NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Curry NERFINISHED ⓘ Vince Colosimo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult audiences ⓘ |
| theme |
ethnic identity in Australia
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friendship ⓘ multiculturalism ⓘ unemployment ⓘ |
| title | The Wog Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Wog Boy Description of subject: The Wog Boy is a 2000 Australian comedy film starring Nick Giannopoulos as a lovable underachiever whose ethnic background and laid-back lifestyle lead to a series of humorous misadventures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.