James McCausland
E491527
James McCausland is an Australian screenwriter best known for co-writing the original 1979 film "Mad Max."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James McCausland canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5072088 — 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: James McCausland Context triple: [Mad Max, writer, James McCausland]
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A.
Donal McLaughlin
Donal McLaughlin was an American architect and industrial designer best known for creating the iconic emblem of the United Nations.
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B.
John McSherry
John McSherry was a longtime Major League Baseball umpire known for his work in numerous postseason games and his sudden on-field death during a 1996 Opening Day game.
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C.
Patrick J. Durkan
Patrick J. Durkan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Durkan, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily available.
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D.
Dan Quinlivan
Dan Quinlivan is a musician best known as a member of the experimental psychedelic and ambient ensemble Bitchin Bajas.
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E.
Patrick Eagan
Patrick Eagan was an early Irish immigrant settler and local political figure after whom the city of Eagan, Minnesota, is named.
- 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: James McCausland Target entity description: James McCausland is an Australian screenwriter best known for co-writing the original 1979 film "Mad Max."
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A.
Donal McLaughlin
Donal McLaughlin was an American architect and industrial designer best known for creating the iconic emblem of the United Nations.
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B.
John McSherry
John McSherry was a longtime Major League Baseball umpire known for his work in numerous postseason games and his sudden on-field death during a 1996 Opening Day game.
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C.
Patrick J. Durkan
Patrick J. Durkan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Durkan, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily available.
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D.
Dan Quinlivan
Dan Quinlivan is a musician best known as a member of the experimental psychedelic and ambient ensemble Bitchin Bajas.
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E.
Patrick Eagan
Patrick Eagan was an early Irish immigrant settler and local political figure after whom the city of Eagan, Minnesota, is named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| coWrote | Mad Max ⓘ |
| director | George Miller ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
film ⓘ post-apocalyptic film ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-writing the 1979 film "Mad Max" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Mad Max ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1979 ⓘ |
| workOn | Mad Max ⓘ |
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: James McCausland Description of subject: James McCausland is an Australian screenwriter best known for co-writing the original 1979 film "Mad Max."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.