Bridget Boland
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Bridget Boland was a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist known for her work on mid-20th-century films and stage productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bridget Boland canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7081451 — 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: Bridget Boland Context triple: [War and Peace (1956 film), screenwriter, Bridget Boland]
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A.
Beth Boland
Beth Boland is a suburban mother-turned-criminal mastermind from the TV series "Good Girls," known for orchestrating heists and navigating the dangers of the criminal underworld.
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B.
Bridget O’Connor
Bridget O’Connor was a British screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the acclaimed adaptation of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).
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C.
Orla Brady
Orla Brady is an Irish actress known for her work in television, film, and theatre, including prominent roles in series such as "Doctor Who," "Fringe," and "Into the Badlands."
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D.
Eithne Brennan
Eithne Brennan is the birth name of Enya, the Irish singer, songwriter, and musician renowned for her ethereal, multi-layered New Age music.
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E.
Aislinn O'Sullivan
Aislinn O'Sullivan is an Irish woman best known as the wife of U2 guitarist The Edge.
- 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: Bridget Boland Target entity description: Bridget Boland was a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist known for her work on mid-20th-century films and stage productions.
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A.
Beth Boland
Beth Boland is a suburban mother-turned-criminal mastermind from the TV series "Good Girls," known for orchestrating heists and navigating the dangers of the criminal underworld.
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B.
Bridget O’Connor
Bridget O’Connor was a British screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the acclaimed adaptation of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).
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C.
Orla Brady
Orla Brady is an Irish actress known for her work in television, film, and theatre, including prominent roles in series such as "Doctor Who," "Fringe," and "Into the Badlands."
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D.
Eithne Brennan
Eithne Brennan is the birth name of Enya, the Irish singer, songwriter, and musician renowned for her ethereal, multi-layered New Age music.
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E.
Aislinn O'Sullivan
Aislinn O'Sullivan is an Irish woman best known as the wife of U2 guitarist The Edge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British writer
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ireland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-03-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1988-01-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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St Paul’s Girls’ School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | John Pius Boland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherOccupation |
Olympic tennis champion
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lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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fiction ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
screenplays for mid-20th-century British films
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stage plays in the mid-20th century ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anne of the Thousand Days
NERFINISHED
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Gaslight NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gentle Gunman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Prisoner NERFINISHED ⓘ War and Peace (1956 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Anne of the Thousand Days (stage adaptation)
NERFINISHED
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Gaslight (1940 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gentle Gunman (1952 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ War and Peace (1956 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
At My Mother’s Knee
NERFINISHED
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Gudgekin the Thistle Girl and Other Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ Portrait of a Lady in Love NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dragon in the Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ The Prisoner (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Prisoner (screenplay) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wild Geese NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wild Geese Are Vain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Bridget Boland Description of subject: Bridget Boland was a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist known for her work on mid-20th-century films and stage productions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
War and Peace (1956 film)