Thomas Patrick McHale
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Thomas Patrick McHale was an American professional football guard who played in the National Football League during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Patrick McHale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10218303 — 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: Thomas Patrick McHale Context triple: [Tom McHale (American football), fullName, Thomas Patrick McHale]
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A.
Tom J. Leahy
Tom J. Leahy is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Leahy, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
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B.
John Joseph O'Callahan
John Joseph O'Callahan is an American former ice hockey defenseman best known as a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic "Miracle on Ice" team that won gold at Lake Placid.
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C.
James T. O'Donohoe
James T. O'Donohoe was an American screenwriter active during the silent and early sound film era.
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D.
John P. McHale
John P. McHale is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname McHale, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
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E.
John McAuliffe
John McAuliffe is a notable individual who shares the surname McAuliffe, which is associated with several prominent figures across fields such as the military, politics, and the arts.
- 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: Thomas Patrick McHale Target entity description: Thomas Patrick McHale was an American professional football guard who played in the National Football League during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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A.
Tom J. Leahy
Tom J. Leahy is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Leahy, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
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B.
John Joseph O'Callahan
John Joseph O'Callahan is an American former ice hockey defenseman best known as a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic "Miracle on Ice" team that won gold at Lake Placid.
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C.
James T. O'Donohoe
James T. O'Donohoe was an American screenwriter active during the silent and early sound film era.
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D.
John P. McHale
John P. McHale is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname McHale, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
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E.
John McAuliffe
John McAuliffe is a notable individual who shares the surname McAuliffe, which is associated with several prominent figures across fields such as the military, politics, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
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human ⓘ offensive guard ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1995 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1987 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | drug overdose ⓘ |
| collegeAttended |
Cornell University
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University of Maryland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-02-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2008-05-25 ⓘ |
| familyName | McHale ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| height | 193 cm ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber |
68
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73 ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Miami Dolphins
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Philadelphia Eagles ⓘ Tampa Bay Buccaneers ⓘ |
| middleName | Patrick ⓘ |
| notableFor | playing guard in the NFL in the late 1980s and early 1990s ⓘ |
| occupation | professional American football player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
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linked to:
City of Gaithersburg, Maryland
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| placeOfDeath |
Tarpon Springs, Florida, United States
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linked to:
Tarpon Springs, Florida
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| playedIn | National Football League ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | guard ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| weight | 127 kg ⓘ |
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: Thomas Patrick McHale Description of subject: Thomas Patrick McHale was an American professional football guard who played in the National Football League during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.