Patrick Marber
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Patrick Marber is an English playwright, screenwriter, director, and comedian best known for works such as the play and film "Closer."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Marber canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4194568 — 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: Patrick Marber Context triple: [New College, Oxford, hasAlumni, Patrick Marber]
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A.
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director renowned for his sophisticated adaptations of literary works for stage and film, including the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Dangerous Liaisons."
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B.
David Hare
David Hare is a prominent British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically charged stage works and acclaimed film adaptations such as "The Hours."
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C.
Jez Butterworth
Jez Butterworth is a British playwright and screenwriter known for acclaimed works such as the play "Jerusalem" and screenplays including "Edge of Tomorrow" and "Ford v Ferrari."
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D.
Joseph Godber
Joseph Godber was a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts in the mid-20th century, including roles in agriculture and foreign affairs.
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E.
John Hull
John Hull was a prominent 17th-century Boston merchant, silversmith, and colonial official best known for serving as the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s mintmaster.
- 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: Patrick Marber Target entity description: Patrick Marber is an English playwright, screenwriter, director, and comedian best known for works such as the play and film "Closer."
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A.
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director renowned for his sophisticated adaptations of literary works for stage and film, including the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Dangerous Liaisons."
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B.
David Hare
David Hare is a prominent British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically charged stage works and acclaimed film adaptations such as "The Hours."
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C.
Jez Butterworth
Jez Butterworth is a British playwright and screenwriter known for acclaimed works such as the play "Jerusalem" and screenplays including "Edge of Tomorrow" and "Ford v Ferrari."
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D.
Joseph Godber
Joseph Godber was a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts in the mid-20th century, including roles in agriculture and foreign affairs.
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E.
John Hull
John Hull was a prominent 17th-century Boston merchant, silversmith, and colonial official best known for serving as the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s mintmaster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
ⓘ
film director ⓘ human ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy
ⓘ
linked to:
Evening Standard Theatre Awards
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1964-09-19 ⓘ |
| directedPlay |
Closer
ONDG
ⓘ
Dealer’s Choice ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cranleigh School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wadham College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Marber ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Patrick Marber ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
ⓘ
BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| notableWork |
After Miss Julie
ⓘ
linked to:
Miss Julie
Asylum (screenplay) ⓘ
linked to:
Asylum
Closer (film screenplay) ⓘ
linked to:
Closer (stage production)
Closer (play) ⓘ
linked to:
Closer (stage production)
Dealer’s Choice ⓘ Howard Katz NERFINISHED ⓘ Notes on a Scandal (screenplay) ⓘ
linked to:
Notes on a Scandal
The Red Lion ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Wimbledon, London, England
ⓘ
linked to:
Wimbledon
|
| spouse | Debra Gillett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrotePlay |
After Miss Julie
ⓘ
Closer ⓘ Dealer’s Choice ⓘ Howard Katz NERFINISHED ⓘ The Red Lion ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplay |
Asylum
ⓘ
Closer ⓘ Notes on a Scandal ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Patrick Marber Description of subject: Patrick Marber is an English playwright, screenwriter, director, and comedian best known for works such as the play and film "Closer."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.