Sean in The Quiet Man
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Sean in *The Quiet Man* is a supporting character in John Ford’s classic 1952 Irish romantic drama, remembered as one of Jack MacGowran’s early film roles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sean in The Quiet Man canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10856240 — 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: Sean in The Quiet Man Context triple: [Jack MacGowran, notableRole, Sean in The Quiet Man]
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A.
McLaglen
McLaglen is the surname of a family of actors most notably associated with British-American character actor Victor McLaglen, known for his roles in classic Hollywood films.
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B.
Johnny Ringo McDonagh
Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh is an Irish bodhrán player best known as a pioneering percussionist in traditional Irish music and a founding member of the influential folk group De Dannan.
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C.
John Behan
John Behan is an Irish sculptor renowned for his powerful bronze works that often explore themes of history, migration, and national memory.
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D.
Cagney
Cagney is a surname most famously associated with American actor James Cagney, a major Hollywood star of the 20th century.
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E.
Mayo Methot Bogart
Mayo Methot Bogart was an American stage and film actress best known as the third wife of actor Humphrey Bogart and for her roles in 1930s Hollywood films.
- 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: Sean in The Quiet Man Target entity description: Sean in *The Quiet Man* is a supporting character in John Ford’s classic 1952 Irish romantic drama, remembered as one of Jack MacGowran’s early film roles.
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A.
McLaglen
McLaglen is the surname of a family of actors most notably associated with British-American character actor Victor McLaglen, known for his roles in classic Hollywood films.
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B.
Johnny Ringo McDonagh
Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh is an Irish bodhrán player best known as a pioneering percussionist in traditional Irish music and a founding member of the influential folk group De Dannan.
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C.
John Behan
John Behan is an Irish sculptor renowned for his powerful bronze works that often explore themes of history, migration, and national memory.
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D.
Cagney
Cagney is a surname most famously associated with American actor James Cagney, a major Hollywood star of the 20th century.
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E.
Mayo Methot Bogart
Mayo Methot Bogart was an American stage and film actress best known as the third wife of actor Humphrey Bogart and for her roles in 1930s Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Quiet Man ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | Ireland ⓘ |
| directorOfWork | John Ford ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of Jack MacGowran’s early film roles ⓘ |
| partOf | The Quiet Man cast ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jack MacGowran ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre | romantic drama film ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1952 ⓘ |
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: Sean in The Quiet Man Description of subject: Sean in *The Quiet Man* is a supporting character in John Ford’s classic 1952 Irish romantic drama, remembered as one of Jack MacGowran’s early film roles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.