Alan Bleasdale
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person
playwright
screenwriter
television drama
television dramatist
television play
television series
Alan Bleasdale is a British television dramatist and screenwriter best known for his socially conscious series such as "Boys from the Blackstuff."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Bleasdale canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4096769 — 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: Alan Bleasdale Context triple: [St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool, hasNotableAlumni, Alan Bleasdale]
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A.
Raymond Pilger
Raymond Pilger is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Pilger.
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B.
Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis was a 19th-century Texas statesman best known for presiding over the convention that declared Texas’ independence from Mexico.
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C.
Jack Higgins
Jack Higgins was a bestselling British thriller novelist, best known for his World War II espionage novel "The Eagle Has Landed."
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D.
Malcolm Bradbury
Malcolm Bradbury was a British novelist, critic, and academic best known for his satirical campus novels and influential role in modern English literature.
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E.
David Leigh
David Leigh is a British investigative journalist and author known for his work on political scandals and intelligence matters, including material that inspired the film "The Fifth Estate."
- 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: Alan Bleasdale Target entity description: Alan Bleasdale is a British television dramatist and screenwriter best known for his socially conscious series such as "Boys from the Blackstuff."
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A.
Raymond Pilger
Raymond Pilger is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Pilger.
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B.
Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis was a 19th-century Texas statesman best known for presiding over the convention that declared Texas’ independence from Mexico.
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C.
Jack Higgins
Jack Higgins was a bestselling British thriller novelist, best known for his World War II espionage novel "The Eagle Has Landed."
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D.
Malcolm Bradbury
Malcolm Bradbury was a British novelist, critic, and academic best known for his satirical campus novels and influential role in modern English literature.
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E.
David Leigh
David Leigh is a British investigative journalist and author known for his work on political scandals and intelligence matters, including material that inspired the film "The Fifth Estate."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television drama ⓘ television drama ⓘ television drama ⓘ television dramatist ⓘ television play ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-03-23 ⓘ |
| familyName | Bleasdale ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
political drama ⓘ social realism ⓘ |
| givenName | Alan ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Alan Bleasdale ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | socially conscious television drama ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Boys from the Blackstuff
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GBH ⓘ Jake's Progress ⓘ Scully ⓘ The Black Stuff ⓘ The Monocled Mutineer ⓘ |
| occupation |
playwright
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Liverpool ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Alan Bleasdale ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Boys from the Blackstuff ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Liverpool
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| wrote |
Boys from the Blackstuff
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GBH ⓘ Jake's Progress ⓘ Scully ⓘ The Black Stuff ⓘ The Monocled Mutineer ⓘ |
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: Alan Bleasdale Description of subject: Alan Bleasdale is a British television dramatist and screenwriter best known for his socially conscious series such as "Boys from the Blackstuff."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.