Ken Shadie
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Ken Shadie was an Australian screenwriter best known for co-writing the hit 1986 comedy film "Crocodile Dundee."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ken Shadie canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7837321 — 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: Ken Shadie Context triple: [Crocodile Dundee, screenwriter, Ken Shadie]
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A.
Shawn Eichman
Shawn Eichman is an American political activist best known as a defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down federal prohibitions on flag desecration as unconstitutional.
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B.
John Sharian
John Sharian is an American actor and director best known for his role as Ivan in the psychological thriller film "The Machinist."
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C.
Ken Fradley
Ken Fradley is a musician best known as a member of the new wave band Tom Tom Club.
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D.
Bryan Shaw
Bryan Shaw is an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher known for his durability and heavy workload out of the bullpen, particularly during his tenure with the Cleveland Indians.
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E.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
- 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: Ken Shadie Target entity description: Ken Shadie was an Australian screenwriter best known for co-writing the hit 1986 comedy film "Crocodile Dundee."
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A.
Shawn Eichman
Shawn Eichman is an American political activist best known as a defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down federal prohibitions on flag desecration as unconstitutional.
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B.
John Sharian
John Sharian is an American actor and director best known for his role as Ivan in the psychological thriller film "The Machinist."
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C.
Ken Fradley
Ken Fradley is a musician best known as a member of the new wave band Tom Tom Club.
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D.
Bryan Shaw
Bryan Shaw is an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher known for his durability and heavy workload out of the bullpen, particularly during his tenure with the Cleveland Indians.
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E.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian
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film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| coWrote | Crocodile Dundee ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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English ⓘ |
| notability | best known for co-writing the 1986 comedy film "Crocodile Dundee" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Crocodile Dundee ⓘ |
| occupation |
film writer
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1986 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Ken Shadie ⓘ |
| workLocation | Australia ⓘ |
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: Ken Shadie Description of subject: Ken Shadie was an Australian screenwriter best known for co-writing the hit 1986 comedy film "Crocodile Dundee."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.