Hugh McDermott
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Hugh McDermott was a Scottish actor known for his supporting roles in British films of the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hugh McDermott canonical | 5 |
| Hugh MacDermott | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10493457 — 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: Hugh McDermott Context triple: [Pimpernel Smith, starring, Hugh McDermott]
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A.
Stephen McDermott
Stephen McDermott is an Irish Gaelic footballer known for playing at inter-county level for Donegal.
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B.
David McDermott
David McDermott is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the McDermott surname rather than widespread public recognition in a specific field.
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C.
Brian McDermott
Brian McDermott is a former professional rugby league player and highly successful English rugby league coach, best known for his trophy-laden tenure with the Leeds Rhinos.
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D.
John Doherty
John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
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E.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara is the naive Irish sailor protagonist of the 1947 film noir "The Lady from Shanghai," whose involvement with a mysterious woman draws him into a web of murder and betrayal.
- 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: Hugh McDermott Target entity description: Hugh McDermott was a Scottish actor known for his supporting roles in British films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
Stephen McDermott
Stephen McDermott is an Irish Gaelic footballer known for playing at inter-county level for Donegal.
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B.
David McDermott
David McDermott is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the McDermott surname rather than widespread public recognition in a specific field.
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C.
Brian McDermott
Brian McDermott is a former professional rugby league player and highly successful English rugby league coach, best known for his trophy-laden tenure with the Leeds Rhinos.
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D.
John Doherty
John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
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E.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara is the naive Irish sailor protagonist of the 1947 film noir "The Lady from Shanghai," whose involvement with a mysterious woman draws him into a web of murder and betrayal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | McDermott ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Hugh ⓘ |
| industry | British film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Hugh McDermott ⓘ |
| notableFor |
supporting roles in 1930s British cinema
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supporting roles in 1940s British cinema ⓘ supporting roles in British films ⓘ |
| notableWorkPeriod | 1930s and 1940s British films ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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: Hugh McDermott Description of subject: Hugh McDermott was a Scottish actor known for his supporting roles in British films of the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.