Nick McLean
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Nick McLean is an American cinematographer best known for his work on popular films of the 1980s, including the adventure classic "The Goonies."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nick McLean canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11049968 — 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: Nick McLean Context triple: [The Goonies, cinematographyBy, Nick McLean]
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A.
Mike McAlary
Mike McAlary was a Pulitzer Prize–winning New York City tabloid columnist known for his hard-hitting crime reporting and controversial coverage of police brutality cases in the 1980s and 1990s.
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B.
Rick McCallum
Rick McCallum is a film and television producer best known for collaborating with George Lucas on the Star Wars prequel trilogy and the Star Wars Special Edition releases.
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C.
Steve MacLean
Steve MacLean is a Canadian physicist and former astronaut who flew on two Space Shuttle missions and later served as president of the Canadian Space Agency.
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D.
Mark McPherson
Mark McPherson is the hardboiled detective protagonist in the classic 1944 film noir "Laura," who investigates the apparent murder of the title character and becomes increasingly obsessed with her.
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E.
Steve McNiven
Steve McNiven is a Canadian comic book artist best known for his highly detailed work at Marvel Comics on major events and series such as "Civil War" and "Old Man Logan."
- 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: Nick McLean Target entity description: Nick McLean is an American cinematographer best known for his work on popular films of the 1980s, including the adventure classic "The Goonies."
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A.
Mike McAlary
Mike McAlary was a Pulitzer Prize–winning New York City tabloid columnist known for his hard-hitting crime reporting and controversial coverage of police brutality cases in the 1980s and 1990s.
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B.
Rick McCallum
Rick McCallum is a film and television producer best known for collaborating with George Lucas on the Star Wars prequel trilogy and the Star Wars Special Edition releases.
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C.
Steve MacLean
Steve MacLean is a Canadian physicist and former astronaut who flew on two Space Shuttle missions and later served as president of the Canadian Space Agency.
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D.
Mark McPherson
Mark McPherson is the hardboiled detective protagonist in the classic 1944 film noir "Laura," who investigates the apparent murder of the title character and becomes increasingly obsessed with her.
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E.
Steve McNiven
Steve McNiven is a Canadian comic book artist best known for his highly detailed work at Marvel Comics on major events and series such as "Civil War" and "Old Man Logan."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| genre | adventure film ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasProfession | director of photography ⓘ |
| hasRole | cinematographer of The Goonies ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cinematography on The Goonies
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work on popular films of the 1980s ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEra |
1980s American cinema
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20th century ⓘ |
| notableFor | visual style in 1980s films ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Goonies ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| partOf |
American film industry
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linked to:
American cinema
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| specializesIn |
adventure films
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feature films ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| workPeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
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: Nick McLean Description of subject: Nick McLean is an American cinematographer best known for his work on popular films of the 1980s, including the adventure classic "The Goonies."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.