Cleo McDowell
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Cleo McDowell is a fast-food restaurant owner and the protective father of Lisa McDowell in the comedy film "Coming to America."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cleo McDowell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3239532 — 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: Cleo McDowell Context triple: [Coming to America, character, Cleo McDowell]
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A.
Clair Popkin
Clair Popkin is a cinematographer best known for his work on the acclaimed rock-climbing documentary film "Free Solo."
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B.
Dorothy Comingore
Dorothy Comingore was an American film actress best known for her acclaimed performance as Susan Alexander Kane in Orson Welles's classic film "Citizen Kane."
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C.
Eugenia McMahon
Eugenia McMahon was the wife of prominent American labor leader George Meany.
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D.
Thea Osborne
Thea Osborne is a member of the Osborne family and the sister of British Conservative politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
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E.
Celia Ladd
Celia Ladd is the wife of acclaimed film director and screenwriter John Huston.
- 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: Cleo McDowell Target entity description: Cleo McDowell is a fast-food restaurant owner and the protective father of Lisa McDowell in the comedy film "Coming to America."
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A.
Clair Popkin
Clair Popkin is a cinematographer best known for his work on the acclaimed rock-climbing documentary film "Free Solo."
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B.
Dorothy Comingore
Dorothy Comingore was an American film actress best known for her acclaimed performance as Susan Alexander Kane in Orson Welles's classic film "Citizen Kane."
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C.
Eugenia McMahon
Eugenia McMahon was the wife of prominent American labor leader George Meany.
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D.
Thea Osborne
Thea Osborne is a member of the Osborne family and the sister of British Conservative politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
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E.
Celia Ladd
Celia Ladd is the wife of acclaimed film director and screenwriter John Huston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Coming to America ⓘ |
| businessType | fast-food restaurant ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
materialistic ⓘ protective ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy |
Barry W. Blaustein
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Sheffield ⓘ Eddie Murphy ⓘ |
| employer |
McDowell's
ⓘ
linked to:
McDowell's restaurant
|
| fictionalUniverse |
Coming to America universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Coming to America
|
| filmSeries |
Coming to America film series
ⓘ
linked to:
Coming to America
|
| firstAppearance |
Coming to America (1988 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Coming to America
|
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn | comedy film ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Lisa McDowell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Patrice McDowell ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
McDonald's (parody)
ⓘ
linked to:
McDonald’s
|
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | owning McDowell's restaurant ⓘ |
| occupation | fast-food restaurant owner ⓘ |
| parentOf | Lisa McDowell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Amos ⓘ |
| portrayedByInSequel | John Amos ⓘ |
| residence | Queens, New York City ⓘ |
| sequelAppearance | Coming 2 America ⓘ |
| spouse | Patrice and Lisa's mother ⓘ |
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: Cleo McDowell Description of subject: Cleo McDowell is a fast-food restaurant owner and the protective father of Lisa McDowell in the comedy film "Coming to America."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.