Richard Flanagan
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Richard Flanagan is an acclaimed Australian novelist and Man Booker Prize winner known for works such as "The Narrow Road to the Deep North."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Flanagan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3398711 — 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: Richard Flanagan Context triple: [Flanagan, hasNotableBearer, Richard Flanagan]
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Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally is an Australian novelist best known for his historical fiction, including the Booker Prize–winning book that inspired the film "Schindler's List."
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B.
Helen Garner
Helen Garner is an acclaimed Australian novelist, short story writer, and journalist known for her incisive explorations of everyday life, relationships, and moral complexity.
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C.
Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author and former fugitive best known for his epic novel "Shantaram," inspired by his own experiences in the Mumbai underworld.
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D.
William Boyd
William Boyd was an American actor best known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy in numerous films and early television.
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E.
Peter Carey
Peter Carey is an acclaimed Australian novelist known for his richly imaginative fiction and for winning the Booker Prize twice.
- 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: Richard Flanagan Target entity description: Richard Flanagan is an acclaimed Australian novelist and Man Booker Prize winner known for works such as "The Narrow Road to the Deep North."
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A.
Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally is an Australian novelist best known for his historical fiction, including the Booker Prize–winning book that inspired the film "Schindler's List."
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B.
Helen Garner
Helen Garner is an acclaimed Australian novelist, short story writer, and journalist known for her incisive explorations of everyday life, relationships, and moral complexity.
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C.
Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author and former fugitive best known for his epic novel "Shantaram," inspired by his own experiences in the Mumbai underworld.
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D.
William Boyd
William Boyd was an American actor best known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy in numerous films and early television.
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E.
Peter Carey
Peter Carey is an acclaimed Australian novelist known for his richly imaginative fiction and for winning the Booker Prize twice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
ⓘ
film director ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| academicDegree | Rhodes Scholar ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
ⓘ
linked to:
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Man Booker Prize ⓘ
linked to:
Booker Prize
Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction ⓘ Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards ⓘ Tasmania Book Prize ⓘ |
| awardReceivedForWork |
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish
ⓘ
linked to:
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North ⓘ
linked to:
Booker Prize
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-01-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Oxford
ⓘ
University of Tasmania ⓘ
linked to:
University of Tasmania main campus
Worcester College, Oxford ⓘ |
| familyName | Flanagan ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasRole | public intellectual in Australia ⓘ |
| hasWritten | non-fiction essays and journalism on politics and the environment ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
Burma–Thailand railway
ⓘ
linked to:
Burma Railway
Second World War prisoners of war ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Richard Flanagan ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North ⓘ |
| notableSubject |
Australian identity
ⓘ
Tasmanian history ⓘ war and its aftermath ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Death of a River Guide
ⓘ
First Person ⓘ Gould’s Book of Fish ⓘ The Living Sea of Waking Dreams ⓘ The Narrow Road to the Deep North ⓘ
linked to:
Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Sound of One Hand Clapping ⓘ The Unknown Terrorist ⓘ Wanting ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Longford, Tasmania, Australia ⓘ |
| residence |
Tasmania, Australia
ⓘ
linked to:
Tasmania
|
| spouse | Majda Flanagan ⓘ |
| writingStyle | often explores history, memory, and trauma ⓘ |
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Subject: Richard Flanagan Description of subject: Richard Flanagan is an acclaimed Australian novelist and Man Booker Prize winner known for works such as "The Narrow Road to the Deep North."
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