David McNally
E701838
David McNally is a film director best known for helming the 2000 romantic musical drama "Coyote Ugly."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David McNally canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7951759 — 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: David McNally Context triple: [Coyote Ugly, director, David McNally]
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A.
Declan Kelly
Declan Kelly is an Irish-American businessman, diplomat, and public relations executive who has served in senior advisory roles including as a U.S. envoy focused on Northern Ireland.
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B.
David O'Hara
David O'Hara is a Scottish actor known for his versatile character roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as Braveheart, The Departed, and various crime dramas.
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C.
Macaulay Connor
Macaulay Connor is the fictional cynical reporter and love interest in Philip Barry’s play "The Philadelphia Story," later portrayed by James Stewart in the classic 1940 film adaptation.
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D.
J. J. Connolly
J. J. Connolly is a British author and screenwriter best known for his crime novel "Layer Cake" and its film adaptation.
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E.
Conor McCaughan
Conor McCaughan is a film producer known for his work on independent and arthouse films, including the critically acclaimed western "Slow West."
- 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: David McNally Target entity description: David McNally is a film director best known for helming the 2000 romantic musical drama "Coyote Ugly."
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A.
Declan Kelly
Declan Kelly is an Irish-American businessman, diplomat, and public relations executive who has served in senior advisory roles including as a U.S. envoy focused on Northern Ireland.
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B.
David O'Hara
David O'Hara is a Scottish actor known for his versatile character roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as Braveheart, The Departed, and various crime dramas.
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C.
Macaulay Connor
Macaulay Connor is the fictional cynical reporter and love interest in Philip Barry’s play "The Philadelphia Story," later portrayed by James Stewart in the classic 1940 film adaptation.
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D.
J. J. Connolly
J. J. Connolly is a British author and screenwriter best known for his crime novel "Layer Cake" and its film adaptation.
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E.
Conor McCaughan
Conor McCaughan is a film producer known for his work on independent and arthouse films, including the critically acclaimed western "Slow West."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film director ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| directed |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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Coyote Ugly ⓘ Designated Survivor ⓘ Kangaroo Jack ⓘ Suits ⓘ The Good Wife ⓘ Under the Dome ⓘ |
| director |
David McNally
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David McNally ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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romantic musical drama film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing Coyote Ugly
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directing Kangaroo Jack ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableWork | Coyote Ugly ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
television director ⓘ |
| publicationDate |
2000
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2003 ⓘ |
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: David McNally Description of subject: David McNally is a film director best known for helming the 2000 romantic musical drama "Coyote Ugly."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.