Douglas McGrath
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Douglas McGrath was an American screenwriter, director, and actor known for his literary adaptations and collaborations with Woody Allen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Douglas McGrath canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T597443 — 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: Douglas McGrath Context triple: [Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film), director, Douglas McGrath]
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Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
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B.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
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C.
Laird Doyle
Laird Doyle was an American screenwriter active in early Hollywood, known for adapting literary works for the screen.
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Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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E.
William McGann
William McGann was an American cinematographer and film director active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on adventure and genre films.
- 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: Douglas McGrath Target entity description: Douglas McGrath was an American screenwriter, director, and actor known for his literary adaptations and collaborations with Woody Allen.
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A.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
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B.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
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C.
Laird Doyle
Laird Doyle was an American screenwriter active in early Hollywood, known for adapting literary works for the screen.
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D.
Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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E.
William McGann
William McGann was an American cinematographer and film director active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on adventure and genre films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Douglas McGrath Description of subject: Douglas McGrath was an American screenwriter, director, and actor known for his literary adaptations and collaborations with Woody Allen.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nicholas Nickleby
subject linked to:
Nicholas Nickleby
subject linked to:
film Infamous (2006)
subject linked to:
film Infamous (2006)
subject linked to:
I Don’t Know How She Does It (2011 film)
subject linked to:
HBO documentary "His Way"
subject linked to:
HBO documentary "His Way"