Dannie McElroy
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Dannie McElroy is a character in Patricia Highsmith’s novel "The Price of Salt" (also known as "Carol"), known primarily as a close friend and confidant of Therese Belivet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dannie McElroy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12859859 — 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: Dannie McElroy Context triple: [Therese Belivet, friend, Dannie McElroy]
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A.
Ronnie O’Malley
Ronnie O’Malley is a relative of George O’Malley, a character from the television series "Grey’s Anatomy."
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B.
Barrie Cassidy
Barrie Cassidy is an Australian political journalist and television presenter best known for hosting the ABC’s long-running political program "Insiders."
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C.
Day O’Connor
Day O’Connor is the family name of Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
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D.
Davis McAlary
Davis McAlary is a fictional New Orleans DJ and musician known for his passionate advocacy of the city’s music and culture in the television series "Treme."
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E.
Mo McRae
Mo McRae is an American actor and producer known for his work in film and television, often appearing in crime dramas and action thrillers.
- 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: Dannie McElroy Target entity description: Dannie McElroy is a character in Patricia Highsmith’s novel "The Price of Salt" (also known as "Carol"), known primarily as a close friend and confidant of Therese Belivet.
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A.
Ronnie O’Malley
Ronnie O’Malley is a relative of George O’Malley, a character from the television series "Grey’s Anatomy."
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B.
Barrie Cassidy
Barrie Cassidy is an Australian political journalist and television presenter best known for hosting the ABC’s long-running political program "Insiders."
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C.
Day O’Connor
Day O’Connor is the family name of Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
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D.
Davis McAlary
Davis McAlary is a fictional New Orleans DJ and musician known for his passionate advocacy of the city’s music and culture in the television series "Treme."
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E.
Mo McRae
Mo McRae is an American actor and producer known for his work in film and television, often appearing in crime dramas and action thrillers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Carol
ⓘ
The Price of Salt ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States (work’s origin) ⓘ |
| creator | Patricia Highsmith ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Price of Salt universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Price of Salt
|
| hasFriend | Therese Belivet ⓘ |
| isConfidantOf | Therese Belivet ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
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: Dannie McElroy Description of subject: Dannie McElroy is a character in Patricia Highsmith’s novel "The Price of Salt" (also known as "Carol"), known primarily as a close friend and confidant of Therese Belivet.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Therese Belivet in Carol