Merritt McKinney
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Merritt McKinney is a charismatic mentalist and hypnotist who serves as one of the Four Horsemen illusionists in the heist thriller film "Now You See Me."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Merritt McKinney canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7561047 — 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: Merritt McKinney Context triple: [Now You See Me, featuresCharacter, Merritt McKinney]
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A.
Jesse E. Moorland
Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
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B.
Merritt A. Edson
Merritt A. Edson was a highly decorated U.S. Marine Corps general and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his leadership of "Edson's Raiders" during World War II, particularly in the Guadalcanal campaign.
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C.
Eugene C. Bingham
Eugene C. Bingham was an American chemist and pioneer in rheology whose work on the flow and deformation of materials led to the establishment of a prestigious scientific award in his honor.
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D.
Cecil Doggette
Cecil Doggette is a former American football defensive back who played in the NFL and NFL Europe, notably for teams such as the New York Jets and the Frankfurt Galaxy.
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E.
John Phalen McInnis
John Phalen "Stuffy" McInnis was an American Major League Baseball first baseman best known as a member of the famed "$100,000 infield" of the Philadelphia Athletics in the early 20th century.
- 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: Merritt McKinney Target entity description: Merritt McKinney is a charismatic mentalist and hypnotist who serves as one of the Four Horsemen illusionists in the heist thriller film "Now You See Me."
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A.
Jesse E. Moorland
Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
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B.
Merritt A. Edson
Merritt A. Edson was a highly decorated U.S. Marine Corps general and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his leadership of "Edson's Raiders" during World War II, particularly in the Guadalcanal campaign.
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C.
Eugene C. Bingham
Eugene C. Bingham was an American chemist and pioneer in rheology whose work on the flow and deformation of materials led to the establishment of a prestigious scientific award in his honor.
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D.
Cecil Doggette
Cecil Doggette is a former American football defensive back who played in the NFL and NFL Europe, notably for teams such as the New York Jets and the Frankfurt Galaxy.
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E.
John Phalen McInnis
John Phalen "Stuffy" McInnis was an American Major League Baseball first baseman best known as a member of the famed "$100,000 infield" of the Philadelphia Athletics in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
hypnotist ⓘ mentalist ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Now You See Me
ⓘ
Now You See Me 2 ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Now You See Me film series ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
criminal heists
ⓘ
large-scale illusions ⓘ stage magic ⓘ |
| characterInGenre | heist thriller film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States (fictional context)
ⓘ
linked to:
United States (fictional setting)
|
| createdFor | film ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Now You See Me (2013 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Now You See Me
|
| hasSibling | Chase McKinney ⓘ |
| hasTrait | charismatic ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Four Horsemen ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | member of a magician heist team ⓘ |
| occupation |
hypnotist
ⓘ
mentalist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Woody Harrelson ⓘ |
| teamRole | Four Horsemen illusionist ⓘ |
| usesSkill |
hypnosis
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mind reading ⓘ suggestion ⓘ |
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: Merritt McKinney Description of subject: Merritt McKinney is a charismatic mentalist and hypnotist who serves as one of the Four Horsemen illusionists in the heist thriller film "Now You See Me."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.