Stephen McGann
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Stephen McGann is an English actor and writer best known for his role as Dr. Patrick Turner in the television series "Call the Midwife."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stephen McGann canonical | 23 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2386372 — 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: Stephen McGann Context triple: [Paul McGann, sibling, Stephen McGann]
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A.
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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B.
Daniel Neeson
Daniel Neeson is the son of acclaimed Irish actor Liam Neeson and his late wife, actress Natasha Richardson.
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C.
James O’Donnell
James O’Donnell was a 19th-century Irish-American architect best known for designing Montreal’s iconic Notre-Dame Basilica in the Gothic Revival style.
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D.
Hugh Frayne
Hugh Frayne was an American labor leader and union official who played a significant role in coordinating labor relations and production during World War I.
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E.
Declan Gaffney
Declan Gaffney is a music producer and engineer best known for his extensive work with U2 on several of their studio albums.
- 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: Stephen McGann Target entity description: Stephen McGann is an English actor and writer best known for his role as Dr. Patrick Turner in the television series "Call the Midwife."
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A.
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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B.
Daniel Neeson
Daniel Neeson is the son of acclaimed Irish actor Liam Neeson and his late wife, actress Natasha Richardson.
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C.
James O’Donnell
James O’Donnell was a 19th-century Irish-American architect best known for designing Montreal’s iconic Notre-Dame Basilica in the Gothic Revival style.
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D.
Hugh Frayne
Hugh Frayne was an American labor leader and union official who played a significant role in coordinating labor relations and production during World War I.
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E.
Declan Gaffney
Declan Gaffney is a music producer and engineer best known for his extensive work with U2 on several of their studio albums.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Stephen McGann Description of subject: Stephen McGann is an English actor and writer best known for his role as Dr. Patrick Turner in the television series "Call the Midwife."
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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McGann
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McGann
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McGann
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McGann family
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McGann family