Kevin McNally
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Kevin McNally is a British actor best known for his role as Joshamee Gibbs in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin McNally canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2352699 — 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: Kevin McNally Context triple: [Valkyrie (2008 film), starredActor, Kevin McNally]
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A.
John O’May
John O’May is an actor known for his role in the Australian musical comedy film "Starstruck" (1982).
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B.
Jim Fregosi
Jim Fregosi was an American Major League Baseball shortstop and manager, best known for his All-Star playing career with the Los Angeles/California Angels and later managing teams such as the Philadelphia Phillies.
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C.
Dave McNally
Dave McNally was a left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his success with the Baltimore Orioles in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including multiple World Series appearances and a landmark role in challenging the reserve clause.
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D.
Lee Clow
Lee Clow is a legendary American advertising executive best known for his groundbreaking work at TBWA\Chiat\Day, where he helped create iconic campaigns for Apple and other major brands.
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E.
Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
- 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: Kevin McNally Target entity description: Kevin McNally is a British actor best known for his role as Joshamee Gibbs in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
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A.
John O’May
John O’May is an actor known for his role in the Australian musical comedy film "Starstruck" (1982).
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B.
Jim Fregosi
Jim Fregosi was an American Major League Baseball shortstop and manager, best known for his All-Star playing career with the Los Angeles/California Angels and later managing teams such as the Philadelphia Phillies.
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C.
Dave McNally
Dave McNally was a left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his success with the Baltimore Orioles in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including multiple World Series appearances and a landmark role in challenging the reserve clause.
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D.
Lee Clow
Lee Clow is a legendary American advertising executive best known for his groundbreaking work at TBWA\Chiat\Day, where he helped create iconic campaigns for Apple and other major brands.
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E.
Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| characterIn |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ⓘ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales ⓘ Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ⓘ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | McNally ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Kevin ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
adventure film
ⓘ
drama ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ |
| hasIMDBProfile | true ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| living | true ⓘ |
| name | Kevin McNally ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of Joshamee Gibbs in the Pirates of the Caribbean series ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Pirates of the Caribbean film series
ⓘ
linked to:
Pirates of the Caribbean
|
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Pirates of the Caribbean film series ⓘ |
| portrayed | Joshamee Gibbs ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
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: Kevin McNally Description of subject: Kevin McNally is a British actor best known for his role as Joshamee Gibbs in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.