Roy McAvoy
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Roy McAvoy is a talented but reckless West Texas golf pro whose quest for redemption and glory drives the romantic sports comedy film "Tin Cup."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roy McAvoy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4921964 — 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: Roy McAvoy Context triple: [Tin Cup, mainCharacter, Roy McAvoy]
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A.
Ross Geller
Ross Geller is a paleontologist and one of the six central friends in the sitcom "Friends," known for his awkward charm, on-again off-again relationship with Rachel, and his nerdy, earnest personality.
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B.
Sam Wheat
Sam Wheat is the murdered banker-turned-ghost portrayed by Patrick Swayze in the 1990 romantic fantasy film "Ghost," who tries to protect his girlfriend and solve his own death from the afterlife.
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C.
Benjamin Braddock
Benjamin Braddock is the disillusioned recent college graduate and central protagonist of "The Graduate," known for his aimlessness, affair with Mrs. Robinson, and struggle against suburban expectations.
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D.
John Maraganore
John Maraganore is a biotechnology executive best known as the founding CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and a pioneer in the development of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics.
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E.
Jack Donaghy
Jack Donaghy is a sharply dressed, corporate-minded television executive known for his ruthless business savvy and deadpan mentorship of Liz Lemon on the sitcom "30 Rock."
- 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: Roy McAvoy Target entity description: Roy McAvoy is a talented but reckless West Texas golf pro whose quest for redemption and glory drives the romantic sports comedy film "Tin Cup."
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A.
Ross Geller
Ross Geller is a paleontologist and one of the six central friends in the sitcom "Friends," known for his awkward charm, on-again off-again relationship with Rachel, and his nerdy, earnest personality.
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B.
Sam Wheat
Sam Wheat is the murdered banker-turned-ghost portrayed by Patrick Swayze in the 1990 romantic fantasy film "Ghost," who tries to protect his girlfriend and solve his own death from the afterlife.
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C.
Benjamin Braddock
Benjamin Braddock is the disillusioned recent college graduate and central protagonist of "The Graduate," known for his aimlessness, affair with Mrs. Robinson, and struggle against suburban expectations.
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D.
John Maraganore
John Maraganore is a biotechnology executive best known as the founding CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and a pioneer in the development of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics.
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E.
Jack Donaghy
Jack Donaghy is a sharply dressed, corporate-minded television executive known for his ruthless business savvy and deadpan mentorship of Liz Lemon on the sitcom "30 Rock."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ golfer ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Tin Cup ⓘ |
| centralConflict |
pursuit of golf glory
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quest for redemption ⓘ |
| characterFlaw |
inability to lay up
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risk-taking ⓘ |
| createdBy | Ron Shelton ⓘ |
| createdFor | feature film ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext |
romantic comedy
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sports comedy ⓘ |
| friend | Romeo Posar ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| homeRegion | West Texas ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Molly Griswold ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
competes in the U.S. Open
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qualifies for the U.S. Open ⓘ |
| occupation |
driving range owner
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golf professional ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
reckless
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romantic ⓘ stubborn ⓘ talented ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kevin Costner ⓘ |
| primarySport | golf ⓘ |
| rival | David Simms ⓘ |
| setting | Texas ⓘ |
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: Roy McAvoy Description of subject: Roy McAvoy is a talented but reckless West Texas golf pro whose quest for redemption and glory drives the romantic sports comedy film "Tin Cup."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.