David Passi
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David Passi was a Torres Strait Islander elder and traditional landowner who was one of the key plaintiffs in the landmark Australian High Court case that led to the legal recognition of native title.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Passi canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10503814 — 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: David Passi Context triple: [Mabo v Queensland (No 2), plaintiff, David Passi]
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A.
John Pass
John Pass was an 18th-century Philadelphia foundryman best known for successfully recasting the Liberty Bell after its initial cracking.
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B.
Christopher Baffa
Christopher Baffa is an American cinematographer known for his work on films and television series, including the horror-comedy movie "Idle Hands."
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C.
Steven Pasquale
Steven Pasquale is an American actor known for his work in television, film, and theater, including prominent roles in series like "Rescue Me" and various acclaimed stage productions.
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D.
Michael D’Orso
Michael D’Orso is an American author and journalist known for co-writing influential nonfiction books, often chronicling social justice movements and notable public figures.
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E.
Greg Maffei
Greg Maffei is an American business executive best known as the longtime president and CEO of Liberty Media, overseeing its diverse portfolio of media, communications, and entertainment assets.
- 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: David Passi Target entity description: David Passi was a Torres Strait Islander elder and traditional landowner who was one of the key plaintiffs in the landmark Australian High Court case that led to the legal recognition of native title.
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A.
John Pass
John Pass was an 18th-century Philadelphia foundryman best known for successfully recasting the Liberty Bell after its initial cracking.
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B.
Christopher Baffa
Christopher Baffa is an American cinematographer known for his work on films and television series, including the horror-comedy movie "Idle Hands."
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C.
Steven Pasquale
Steven Pasquale is an American actor known for his work in television, film, and theater, including prominent roles in series like "Rescue Me" and various acclaimed stage productions.
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D.
Michael D’Orso
Michael D’Orso is an American author and journalist known for co-writing influential nonfiction books, often chronicling social justice movements and notable public figures.
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E.
Greg Maffei
Greg Maffei is an American business executive best known as the longtime president and CEO of Liberty Media, overseeing its diverse portfolio of media, communications, and entertainment assets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Torres Strait Islander elder
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native title activist ⓘ person ⓘ traditional landowner ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
recognition of native title
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recognition of traditional land rights ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Murray Island traditional owners
ⓘ
Torres Strait Islander community ⓘ
linked to:
Torres Strait Islanders
|
| contributedTo | legal recognition of native title in Australia ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Torres Strait Islander
ⓘ
linked to:
Torres Strait Islanders
|
| hasRole | traditional owner representative in court proceedings ⓘ |
| hasTitle | elder ⓘ |
| legalCase | Mabo v Queensland (No 2) ⓘ |
| movement | Indigenous land rights movement in Australia ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the Mabo native title case ⓘ |
| occupation | community leader ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Murray Island
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Torres Strait Islands ⓘ |
| role | plaintiff in landmark Australian High Court native title case ⓘ |
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: David Passi Description of subject: David Passi was a Torres Strait Islander elder and traditional landowner who was one of the key plaintiffs in the landmark Australian High Court case that led to the legal recognition of native title.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
the Meriam people hold native title rights to the Murray Islands