Jack Mulligan
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Jack Mulligan is a corrupt and ambitious Chicago politician who serves as a central antagonist in the heist thriller film "Widows" (2018).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Mulligan canonical | 4 |
| Tom Mulligan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3065933 — 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: Jack Mulligan Context triple: [Widows (2018 film), character, Jack Mulligan]
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A.
Joe Mullaney
Joe Mullaney was a prominent American basketball coach known for his successful stints in college basketball and the ABA, including leading the Kentucky Colonels.
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B.
Frank McHugh
Frank McHugh was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, often playing comic sidekicks and supporting roles.
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C.
Jack McHale
Jack McHale is a relatively obscure individual known primarily as a namesake referenced in records of notable bearers of the surname McHale.
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D.
Max O’Hara
Max O’Hara is a fast-talking, ambitious showman and nightclub promoter who brings the giant gorilla Joe to Hollywood in the 1949 adventure film "Mighty Joe Young."
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E.
Jack McManus
Jack McManus is a British singer-songwriter and musician known for his work in pop and adult contemporary music and for his marriage to actress and singer Martine McCutcheon.
- 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: Jack Mulligan Target entity description: Jack Mulligan is a corrupt and ambitious Chicago politician who serves as a central antagonist in the heist thriller film "Widows" (2018).
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A.
Joe Mullaney
Joe Mullaney was a prominent American basketball coach known for his successful stints in college basketball and the ABA, including leading the Kentucky Colonels.
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B.
Frank McHugh
Frank McHugh was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, often playing comic sidekicks and supporting roles.
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C.
Jack McHale
Jack McHale is a relatively obscure individual known primarily as a namesake referenced in records of notable bearers of the surname McHale.
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D.
Max O’Hara
Max O’Hara is a fast-talking, ambitious showman and nightclub promoter who brings the giant gorilla Joe to Hollywood in the 1949 adventure film "Mighty Joe Young."
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E.
Jack McManus
Jack McManus is a British singer-songwriter and musician known for his work in pop and adult contemporary music and for his marriage to actress and singer Martine McCutcheon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Widows
ⓘ
linked to:
Widows (2018 film)
Widows (2018 film) ⓘ |
| basedIn | Chicago political scene ⓘ |
| cityOfActivity | Chicago ⓘ |
| conflictsWith |
Veronica Rawlins
ⓘ
the widows ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | Widows (2018 film) ⓘ |
| describedAs |
ambitious
ⓘ
corrupt ⓘ |
| familyBackground | political dynasty ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
heist film
ⓘ
thriller film ⓘ |
| hasMoralAlignment | corrupt politician ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Jack Mulligan ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | obstacle to protagonists ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central antagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| partOf | Widows (2018 film) character roster ⓘ |
| portrayedInUniverseAs | member of Chicago political establishment ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chicago alderman ⓘ |
| setting |
Chicago, Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago
|
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 2018 ⓘ |
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: Jack Mulligan Description of subject: Jack Mulligan is a corrupt and ambitious Chicago politician who serves as a central antagonist in the heist thriller film "Widows" (2018).
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jack Mulligan