Ray McKinnon
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actor
film director
film producer
human
screenwriter
showrunner
television director
television producer
Ray McKinnon is an American actor, writer, producer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for creating the acclaimed series "Rectify."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ray McKinnon canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2645668 — 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: Ray McKinnon Context triple: [News of the World, starring, Ray McKinnon]
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A.
Rich McKay
Rich McKay is an American football executive best known for his long tenure in NFL leadership roles, including as a team executive and influential member of league committees.
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B.
Ray McDonald
Ray McDonald was an American actor and dancer known for his musical film roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
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C.
Michael McKinnell
Michael McKinnell was a British-born American architect best known as the co-designer of Boston City Hall and a leading figure in late-20th-century civic architecture.
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D.
Wayne McAllister
Wayne McAllister was a prominent mid-20th-century American architect best known for his influential roadside and resort designs that helped define the futuristic, car-oriented style later called Googie architecture.
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E.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- 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: Ray McKinnon Target entity description: Ray McKinnon is an American actor, writer, producer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for creating the acclaimed series "Rectify."
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A.
Rich McKay
Rich McKay is an American football executive best known for his long tenure in NFL leadership roles, including as a team executive and influential member of league committees.
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B.
Ray McDonald
Ray McDonald was an American actor and dancer known for his musical film roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
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C.
Michael McKinnell
Michael McKinnell was a British-born American architect best known as the co-designer of Boston City Hall and a leading figure in late-20th-century civic architecture.
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D.
Wayne McAllister
Wayne McAllister was a prominent mid-20th-century American architect best known for his influential roadside and resort designs that helped define the futuristic, car-oriented style later called Googie architecture.
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E.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ showrunner ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1990s American television
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2000s American television ⓘ 2010s American television ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | The Accountant ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Adel, Georgia, United States
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linked to:
Adel, Georgia
|
| collaboratedWith |
Lisa Blount
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Walton Goggins ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creatorOf | Rectify ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Valdosta State University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
directing
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film ⓘ producing ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre | drama television ⓘ |
| givenName | Ray ⓘ |
| knownFor |
character roles in film
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character roles in television ⓘ creating the television series "Rectify" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Ray McKinnon ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Apollo 13
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Deadwood ⓘ Mud ⓘ O Brother, Where Art Thou? ⓘ Rectify ⓘ Sons of Anarchy ⓘ The Accountant ⓘ The Blind Side ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ showrunner ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| partOf | American independent cinema ⓘ |
| residence |
Georgia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Georgia
|
| spouse | Lisa Blount ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Ray McKinnon Description of subject: Ray McKinnon is an American actor, writer, producer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for creating the acclaimed series "Rectify."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.