Paul McGuigan
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Paul McGuigan is a Scottish film and television director known for stylish crime thrillers and dramas, including works like "Lucky Number Slevin" and episodes of the BBC series "Sherlock."
All labels observed (1)
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| Paul McGuigan canonical | 25 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2351923 — 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 McGuigan Context triple: [Lucky Number Slevin, director, Paul McGuigan]
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Paul McGuigan
Paul McGuigan is a British musician best known as the original bassist and a founding member of the rock band Oasis.
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Graham Henry
Graham Henry is a renowned New Zealand rugby union coach best known for leading the All Blacks to sustained dominance, including victory at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
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Michael Cheika
Michael Cheika is an Australian rugby union coach and former player best known for leading the Wallabies to the 2015 Rugby World Cup final and previously guiding Leinster and the NSW Waratahs to major titles.
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Owen Newitt
Owen Newitt is a crude but well-meaning farmer and one of the eccentric parishioners in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley."
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E.
Caleb Porter
Caleb Porter is an American soccer coach best known for leading the Portland Timbers to the 2015 MLS Cup title and later managing other Major League Soccer clubs.
- 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 McGuigan Target entity description: Paul McGuigan is a Scottish film and television director known for stylish crime thrillers and dramas, including works like "Lucky Number Slevin" and episodes of the BBC series "Sherlock."
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A.
Paul McGuigan
Paul McGuigan is a British musician best known as the original bassist and a founding member of the rock band Oasis.
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B.
Graham Henry
Graham Henry is a renowned New Zealand rugby union coach best known for leading the All Blacks to sustained dominance, including victory at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
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C.
Michael Cheika
Michael Cheika is an Australian rugby union coach and former player best known for leading the Wallabies to the 2015 Rugby World Cup final and previously guiding Leinster and the NSW Waratahs to major titles.
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D.
Owen Newitt
Owen Newitt is a crude but well-meaning farmer and one of the eccentric parishioners in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley."
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E.
Caleb Porter
Caleb Porter is an American soccer coach best known for leading the Portland Timbers to the 2015 MLS Cup title and later managing other Major League Soccer clubs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 McGuigan Description of subject: Paul McGuigan is a Scottish film and television director known for stylish crime thrillers and dramas, including works like "Lucky Number Slevin" and episodes of the BBC series "Sherlock."
Referenced by (25)
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Wicker Park (film)