Patrick McNulty
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Patrick McNulty is the central character in the Twilight Zone episode "A Kind of Stopwatch," a talkative and meddlesome man who acquires a magical stopwatch that can freeze time.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick McNulty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9795429 — 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: Patrick McNulty Context triple: [A Kind of Stopwatch, mainCharacter, Patrick McNulty]
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A.
Peter McNulty
Peter McNulty is a film editor known for his work on feature films including the military drama "Megan Leavey."
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B.
Tony McNulty
Tony McNulty is a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament and held ministerial roles including Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing.
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C.
Sean McNulty
Sean McNulty is a minor character in the television series "The Wire," known primarily as one of detective Jimmy McNulty's sons.
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D.
Matthew McNulty
Matthew McNulty is a British actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in series like "Misfits," "The Mill," and "Versailles."
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E.
John McCloskey
John McCloskey was a 19th-century American Catholic prelate who became the first U.S. cardinal and a prominent Archbishop of New York.
- 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: Patrick McNulty Target entity description: Patrick McNulty is the central character in the Twilight Zone episode "A Kind of Stopwatch," a talkative and meddlesome man who acquires a magical stopwatch that can freeze time.
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A.
Peter McNulty
Peter McNulty is a film editor known for his work on feature films including the military drama "Megan Leavey."
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B.
Tony McNulty
Tony McNulty is a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament and held ministerial roles including Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing.
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C.
Sean McNulty
Sean McNulty is a minor character in the television series "The Wire," known primarily as one of detective Jimmy McNulty's sons.
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D.
Matthew McNulty
Matthew McNulty is a British actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in series like "Misfits," "The Mill," and "Versailles."
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E.
John McCloskey
John McCloskey was a 19th-century American Catholic prelate who became the first U.S. cardinal and a prominent Archbishop of New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| acquires | magical stopwatch ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Twilight Zone
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linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
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| appearsInEpisode | A Kind of Stopwatch ⓘ |
| appearsInSeason |
The Twilight Zone season 5
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linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
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| characterArc | abuses power to stop time and faces consequences ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
meddlesome
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talkative ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Rod Serling ⓘ |
| episodeAirDate | October 18, 1963 ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Twilight Zone universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone franchise
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| firstAppearance |
The Twilight Zone episode "A Kind of Stopwatch"
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linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
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| format | black-and-white television ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction television ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character in "A Kind of Stopwatch" ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | CBS ⓘ |
| notableFor | freezing time with a stopwatch ⓘ |
| occupation | insurance company employee ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Richard Erdman ⓘ |
| setting |
New York City (implied urban American setting)
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linked to:
New York City (fictional setting)
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| showTitle |
The Twilight Zone (original series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
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| storyTheme |
time manipulation
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unintended consequences of power ⓘ |
| uses | magical stopwatch that can freeze time ⓘ |
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: Patrick McNulty Description of subject: Patrick McNulty is the central character in the Twilight Zone episode "A Kind of Stopwatch," a talkative and meddlesome man who acquires a magical stopwatch that can freeze time.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.