Simon Stone
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Simon Stone is an Australian theatre and film director known for his innovative adaptations of classic works and for directing the historical drama film "The Dig."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon Stone canonical | 12 |
| Australian-Swiss (Simon Stone) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3066065 — 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: Simon Stone Context triple: [The Dig, director, Simon Stone]
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A.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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B.
Simon Gage
Simon Gage is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinctly associated with the surname Gage.
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C.
Simon McBurney
Simon McBurney is a British actor, writer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for founding the acclaimed theatre company Complicité.
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D.
Robert Webb
Robert Webb is a British comedian, actor, and writer best known as one half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb and for his role as Jeremy Usborne in the television series "Peep Show."
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E.
Alan North
Alan North was an American character actor known for his roles in film and television, often portraying authority figures such as police officers and military men.
- 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: Simon Stone Target entity description: Simon Stone is an Australian theatre and film director known for his innovative adaptations of classic works and for directing the historical drama film "The Dig."
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A.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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B.
Simon Gage
Simon Gage is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinctly associated with the surname Gage.
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C.
Simon McBurney
Simon McBurney is a British actor, writer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for founding the acclaimed theatre company Complicité.
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D.
Robert Webb
Robert Webb is a British comedian, actor, and writer best known as one half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb and for his role as Jeremy Usborne in the television series "Peep Show."
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E.
Alan North
Alan North was an American character actor known for his roles in film and television, often portraying authority figures such as police officers and military men.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
human ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| basedOn | classical theatre repertoire ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Australia
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Simon Stone ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
ⓘ
contemporary theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| influencedBy | classical playwrights ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing the film The Dig
ⓘ
innovative adaptations of classic plays ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary theatre adaptation ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hotel Strindberg
ⓘ
Medea (2014–2015 adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
Medea
Medea (International Theater Amsterdam production) ⓘ
linked to:
Medea
The Daughter ⓘ The Daughter (adaptation of The Wild Duck) ⓘ
linked to:
The Wild Duck
The Dig ⓘ The Dig (2021 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Dig
The Dig (film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Dig
The Wild Duck (2011 Belvoir production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck (Belvoir adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
The Wild Duck
Three Sisters (2019 adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
Three Sisters
Three Sisters (adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
Three Sisters
Yerma (2016 Young Vic production) ⓘ Yerma (Young Vic production) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Australia
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Simon Stone Description of subject: Simon Stone is an Australian theatre and film director known for his innovative adaptations of classic works and for directing the historical drama film "The Dig."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.