Matt Mahoney
E282952
Matt Mahoney is a fictional character from the political drama television series "Madame Secretary," involved in the professional and personal world surrounding the U.S. Secretary of State.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matt Mahoney canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2624802 — 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: Matt Mahoney Context triple: [Madame Secretary, character, Matt Mahoney]
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A.
Max Perlich
Max Perlich is an American character actor known for his offbeat, often quirky supporting roles in independent films and television series since the late 1980s.
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B.
W. Craig Jelinek
W. Craig Jelinek is an American business executive best known for serving as the CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
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C.
J Strother Moore
J Strother Moore is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods, including co-developing the Boyer–Moore theorem prover and the ACL2 system.
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D.
Jeremy Shamos
Jeremy Shamos is an American stage and screen actor known for his work on Broadway and in film and television.
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E.
Richard Lipton
Richard Lipton is an American computer scientist known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and cryptography, including contributions to complexity theory and algorithm design.
- 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: Matt Mahoney Target entity description: Matt Mahoney is a fictional character from the political drama television series "Madame Secretary," involved in the professional and personal world surrounding the U.S. Secretary of State.
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A.
Max Perlich
Max Perlich is an American character actor known for his offbeat, often quirky supporting roles in independent films and television series since the late 1980s.
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B.
W. Craig Jelinek
W. Craig Jelinek is an American business executive best known for serving as the CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
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C.
J Strother Moore
J Strother Moore is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods, including co-developing the Boyer–Moore theorem prover and the ACL2 system.
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D.
Jeremy Shamos
Jeremy Shamos is an American stage and screen actor known for his work on Broadway and in film and television.
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E.
Richard Lipton
Richard Lipton is an American computer scientist known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and cryptography, including contributions to complexity theory and algorithm design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Madam Secretary ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| employer | United States Department of State ⓘ |
| fictionalWorkMedium | television series ⓘ |
| genre | political drama ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Mahoney ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Matt ⓘ |
| occupation | speechwriter ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | Madam Secretary ⓘ |
| position | speechwriter for the U.S. Secretary of State ⓘ |
| worksFor | Elizabeth McCord ⓘ |
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: Matt Mahoney Description of subject: Matt Mahoney is a fictional character from the political drama television series "Madame Secretary," involved in the professional and personal world surrounding the U.S. Secretary of State.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.