Shane McDermott
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Shane McDermott is an American actor best known for his leading role as a laid-back inline skater in the 1993 teen sports comedy film "Airborne."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shane McDermott canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6730843 — 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: Shane McDermott Context triple: [Airborne (1993 film), stars, Shane McDermott]
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A.
Shane Morris
Shane Morris is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney's animated film "Frozen."
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B.
Luke McRedmond
Luke McRedmond was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the city of Redmond, Washington, was named.
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C.
Chris McShane
Chris McShane is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer on the current affairs series "The Problem with Jon Stewart."
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D.
Shane Brennan
Shane Brennan is an Australian television writer and producer best known for his work on crime dramas, including leading roles on the NCIS franchise.
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E.
Shane Connaughton
Shane Connaughton is an Irish writer and actor best known for co-writing the Oscar-winning film adaptation of Christy Brown’s autobiography "My Left Foot."
- 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: Shane McDermott Target entity description: Shane McDermott is an American actor best known for his leading role as a laid-back inline skater in the 1993 teen sports comedy film "Airborne."
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A.
Shane Morris
Shane Morris is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney's animated film "Frozen."
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B.
Luke McRedmond
Luke McRedmond was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the city of Redmond, Washington, was named.
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C.
Chris McShane
Chris McShane is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer on the current affairs series "The Problem with Jon Stewart."
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D.
Shane Brennan
Shane Brennan is an Australian television writer and producer best known for his work on crime dramas, including leading roles on the NCIS franchise.
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E.
Shane Connaughton
Shane Connaughton is an Irish writer and actor best known for co-writing the Oscar-winning film adaptation of Christy Brown’s autobiography "My Left Foot."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| castMemberOf | Airborne ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
sports comedy film
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teen film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Shane McDermott ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading role in the 1993 film Airborne ⓘ |
| notableRole | leading role as a laid-back inline skater in Airborne ⓘ |
| notableWork | Airborne ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| performerIn | Airborne ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
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: Shane McDermott Description of subject: Shane McDermott is an American actor best known for his leading role as a laid-back inline skater in the 1993 teen sports comedy film "Airborne."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.