Roderick McDonald
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Roderick McDonald is an Australian stage director best known for his long-term marriage to acclaimed actress Jacki Weaver.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roderick McDonald canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7448310 — 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: Roderick McDonald Context triple: [Jacki Weaver, spouse, Roderick McDonald]
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A.
Roderick Jackson
Roderick Jackson is a high school girls’ basketball coach whose sex discrimination complaint led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education, which expanded protections against retaliation under Title IX.
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B.
Don McGill
Don McGill is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the long-running crime drama series NCIS.
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C.
Roderick Ham
Roderick Ham was a British architect best known for his influential work in theatre and performance-space design.
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D.
David McMillan
David McMillan is the son of Nobel Prize–winning American physicist Edwin McMillan.
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E.
Roderick Kinney
Roderick Kinney is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the Kinney 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: Roderick McDonald Target entity description: Roderick McDonald is an Australian stage director best known for his long-term marriage to acclaimed actress Jacki Weaver.
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A.
Roderick Jackson
Roderick Jackson is a high school girls’ basketball coach whose sex discrimination complaint led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education, which expanded protections against retaliation under Title IX.
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B.
Don McGill
Don McGill is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the long-running crime drama series NCIS.
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C.
Roderick Ham
Roderick Ham was a British architect best known for his influential work in theatre and performance-space design.
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D.
David McMillan
David McMillan is the son of Nobel Prize–winning American physicist Edwin McMillan.
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E.
Roderick Kinney
Roderick Kinney is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the Kinney surname.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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stage director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | theatre direction ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Jacki Weaver ⓘ |
| occupation | stage director ⓘ |
| spouse | Jacki Weaver ⓘ |
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: Roderick McDonald Description of subject: Roderick McDonald is an Australian stage director best known for his long-term marriage to acclaimed actress Jacki Weaver.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.