Patrick McGoohan
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Patrick McGoohan was an Irish-American actor and director best known for his intense, enigmatic performances in film and television, particularly in the cult TV series "The Prisoner."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick McGoohan canonical | 18 |
| Patrick Joseph McGoohan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T755266 — 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 McGoohan Context triple: [Escape from Alcatraz, starring, Patrick McGoohan]
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A.
Sholto Douglas
Sholto Douglas was a senior Royal Air Force commander who played a key leadership role in British air operations during and after the Second World War.
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B.
Clive Merrison
Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
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C.
George Scott
George Scott was a power-hitting first baseman and three-time All-Star known for his strong defense and key role with the Boston Red Sox in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
George Powell
George Powell was a 19th-century British sealer and explorer noted for his Antarctic voyages and co-discovery of several sub-Antarctic islands.
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E.
Murray Hamilton
Murray Hamilton was an American character actor best known for playing the stubborn Mayor Larry Vaughn in the classic thriller film "Jaws."
- 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 McGoohan Target entity description: Patrick McGoohan was an Irish-American actor and director best known for his intense, enigmatic performances in film and television, particularly in the cult TV series "The Prisoner."
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A.
Sholto Douglas
Sholto Douglas was a senior Royal Air Force commander who played a key leadership role in British air operations during and after the Second World War.
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B.
Clive Merrison
Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
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C.
George Scott
George Scott was a power-hitting first baseman and three-time All-Star known for his strong defense and key role with the Boston Red Sox in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
George Powell
George Powell was a 19th-century British sealer and explorer noted for his Antarctic voyages and co-discovery of several sub-Antarctic islands.
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E.
Murray Hamilton
Murray Hamilton was an American character actor best known for playing the stubborn Mayor Larry Vaughn in the classic thriller film "Jaws."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 McGoohan Description of subject: Patrick McGoohan was an Irish-American actor and director best known for his intense, enigmatic performances in film and television, particularly in the cult TV series "The Prisoner."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Escape from Alcatraz"
linked to: Patrick McGoohan
subject linked to:
Roger Devereau – Patrick McGoohan
subject linked to:
Number Six in The Prisoner