David McKay
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David McKay is a Scottish actor best known for his role in the film "My Name Is Joe" and for his work in British television and cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David McKay canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10917643 — 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 McKay Context triple: [My Name Is Joe, starring, David McKay]
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A.
David McKay
David McKay was an American publishing house and bookseller known for issuing works of notable authors, including Walt Whitman.
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B.
Alister McIntyre
Alister McIntyre was a prominent Grenadian economist and regional leader who played a key role in advancing Caribbean economic integration and development.
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C.
Charles Crichton
Charles Crichton was a British film director and editor best known for his work on classic Ealing comedies and the hit crime-comedy film "A Fish Called Wanda."
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D.
Allan Menzies
Allan Menzies was a Scottish theologian and professor known for his contributions to biblical scholarship and translations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Philip Johnston
Philip Johnston was a World War II veteran and civil engineer who, having grown up on the Navajo Nation and spoken the language fluently, proposed and helped implement the Navajo Code Talker program for the U.S. Marine Corps.
- 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 McKay Target entity description: David McKay is a Scottish actor best known for his role in the film "My Name Is Joe" and for his work in British television and cinema.
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A.
David McKay
David McKay was an American publishing house and bookseller known for issuing works of notable authors, including Walt Whitman.
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B.
Alister McIntyre
Alister McIntyre was a prominent Grenadian economist and regional leader who played a key role in advancing Caribbean economic integration and development.
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C.
Charles Crichton
Charles Crichton was a British film director and editor best known for his work on classic Ealing comedies and the hit crime-comedy film "A Fish Called Wanda."
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D.
Allan Menzies
Allan Menzies was a Scottish theologian and professor known for his contributions to biblical scholarship and translations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Philip Johnston
Philip Johnston was a World War II veteran and civil engineer who, having grown up on the Navajo Nation and spoken the language fluently, proposed and helped implement the Navajo Code Talker program for the U.S. Marine Corps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| castMember | David McKay ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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television ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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drama film ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | My Name Is Joe ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWork | My Name Is Joe ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
British cinema
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British television ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
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 McKay Description of subject: David McKay is a Scottish actor best known for his role in the film "My Name Is Joe" and for his work in British television and cinema.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.