Paul McGrath
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Paul McGrath is a former Irish central defender widely regarded as one of Aston Villa’s greatest players and one of the finest defenders of his generation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul McGrath canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1442486 — 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: Paul McGrath Context triple: [Aston Villa, notablePlayer, Paul McGrath]
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A.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
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B.
Bill Curbishley
Bill Curbishley is a British music and film producer and band manager best known for his long-time work with rock bands like The Who and Judas Priest.
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C.
Jack Cummins
Jack Cummins is an American sports executive best known as the founder of the National Independent Soccer Association, a professional third-division soccer league in the United States.
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D.
Athole Shearer
Athole Shearer was a Canadian-born actress and the younger sister of Hollywood star Norma Shearer, known for her brief film career and marriage to director Howard Hawks.
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E.
Seamus Costello
Seamus Costello was an Irish republican socialist leader and militant who played a key role in the split from the Official IRA and became a founding figure of the Irish National Liberation Army.
- 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: Paul McGrath Target entity description: Paul McGrath is a former Irish central defender widely regarded as one of Aston Villa’s greatest players and one of the finest defenders of his generation.
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A.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
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B.
Bill Curbishley
Bill Curbishley is a British music and film producer and band manager best known for his long-time work with rock bands like The Who and Judas Priest.
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C.
Jack Cummins
Jack Cummins is an American sports executive best known as the founder of the National Independent Soccer Association, a professional third-division soccer league in the United States.
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D.
Athole Shearer
Athole Shearer was a Canadian-born actress and the younger sister of Hollywood star Norma Shearer, known for her brief film career and marriage to director Howard Hawks.
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E.
Seamus Costello
Seamus Costello was an Irish republican socialist leader and militant who played a key role in the split from the Official IRA and became a founding figure of the Irish National Liberation Army.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Paul McGrath Description of subject: Paul McGrath is a former Irish central defender widely regarded as one of Aston Villa’s greatest players and one of the finest defenders of his generation.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
autobiography "Back from the Brink"
subject linked to:
autobiography "Back from the Brink"
subject linked to:
autobiography "Back from the Brink"