Gregory David Roberts
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gregory David Roberts canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T581629 — 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: Gregory David Roberts Context triple: [Shantaram, author, Gregory David Roberts]
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A.
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet best known for his Booker Prize–winning novel "The English Patient."
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B.
William Faulks
William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
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C.
Marlon James
Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist and Booker Prize winner known for his ambitious, genre-blending works that explore history, violence, and Black identity.
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D.
Rajiv Joseph
Rajiv Joseph is an American playwright known for his darkly comic, emotionally resonant works such as the Pulitzer Prize–finalist play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo."
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E.
William T. Vollmann
William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
- 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: Gregory David Roberts Target entity description: 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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A.
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet best known for his Booker Prize–winning novel "The English Patient."
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B.
William Faulks
William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
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C.
Marlon James
Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist and Booker Prize winner known for his ambitious, genre-blending works that explore history, violence, and Black identity.
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D.
Rajiv Joseph
Rajiv Joseph is an American playwright known for his darkly comic, emotionally resonant works such as the Pulitzer Prize–finalist play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo."
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E.
William T. Vollmann
William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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former fugitive ⓘ human ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| author |
Gregory David Roberts
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Gregory David Roberts ⓘ |
| basedOn | his own life experiences ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| familyName | Roberts ⓘ |
| follows | Shantaram ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
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adventure fiction ⓘ autobiographical novel ⓘ autobiographical novel ⓘ crime fiction ⓘ crime fiction ⓘ fiction ⓘ fiction ⓘ philosophical fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Gregory ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Indian culture ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | television adaptation of Shantaram ⓘ |
| language |
English
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English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Gregory David Roberts ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a former bank robber
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depicting the Mumbai underworld in Shantaram ⓘ escaping from an Australian prison ⓘ living as a fugitive in India ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Shantaram
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The Mountain Shadow ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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novelist ⓘ public speaker ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Melbourne ⓘ |
| residence |
Australia
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Mumbai ⓘ |
| setting |
India
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Mumbai ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
crime
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love ⓘ redemption ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
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: Gregory David Roberts Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.