Daniel McPhee
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Daniel McPhee is the late father of American singer and actress Katharine McPhee, known primarily in connection with her life and career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Daniel McPhee canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6349563 — 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: Daniel McPhee Context triple: [Katharine McPhee, father, Daniel McPhee]
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A.
Ian Mackley
Ian Mackley is the husband of British comedian and television personality Julian Clary.
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B.
Eric McLeod
Eric McLeod is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood action and genre movies, including the monster crossover blockbuster "Godzilla vs. Kong."
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C.
Dan Kavanagh
Dan Kavanagh is the crime-fiction pseudonym used by British novelist Julian Barnes for a series of detective novels.
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D.
Sam McCandlish
Sam McCandlish is a machine learning researcher known for his work on large-scale language models and contributions to influential AI research at OpenAI.
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E.
Mark McDermott
Mark McDermott is a person notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the McDermott surname.
- 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: Daniel McPhee Target entity description: Daniel McPhee is the late father of American singer and actress Katharine McPhee, known primarily in connection with her life and career.
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A.
Ian Mackley
Ian Mackley is the husband of British comedian and television personality Julian Clary.
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B.
Eric McLeod
Eric McLeod is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood action and genre movies, including the monster crossover blockbuster "Godzilla vs. Kong."
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C.
Dan Kavanagh
Dan Kavanagh is the crime-fiction pseudonym used by British novelist Julian Barnes for a series of detective novels.
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D.
Sam McCandlish
Sam McCandlish is a machine learning researcher known for his work on large-scale language models and contributions to influential AI research at OpenAI.
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E.
Mark McDermott
Mark McDermott is a person notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the McDermott surname.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
father
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| child | Katharine McPhee ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018 ⓘ |
| familyName | McPhee ⓘ |
| givenName | Daniel ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | American ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Adriana McPhee
ⓘ
Peisha Arten ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | death shortly before Katharine McPhee’s Broadway debut in Waitress ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Katharine McPhee ⓘ |
| occupation | television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| relative | Katharine McPhee ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| siblingOf | unknown ⓘ |
| spouse | Peisha Arten ⓘ |
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: Daniel McPhee Description of subject: Daniel McPhee is the late father of American singer and actress Katharine McPhee, known primarily in connection with her life and career.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.