Frank McGrath
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Frank McGrath was an American character actor best known for his roles in Western films and television series, particularly as the scout Charlie Wooster on the TV show "Wagon Train."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frank McGrath canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12224966 — 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: Frank McGrath Context triple: [The Sword of Ali Baba, castMember, Frank McGrath]
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A.
Paul McAuliffe
Paul McAuliffe is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency and is a former Lord Mayor of Dublin.
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B.
Jack McMahon
Jack McMahon was an American professional basketball coach and former NBA player best known for his coaching tenure in the 1960s, including leading the Cincinnati Royals.
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C.
Frank McHugh
Frank McHugh was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, often playing comic sidekicks and supporting roles.
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D.
Tom McGrath
Tom McGrath is an American animator, voice actor, and film director best known for co-creating and directing the Madagascar film series and directing the animated feature Megamind.
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E.
Patrick Cargill
Patrick Cargill was a British actor best known for his comic roles on stage, film, and television, particularly in the sitcom "Father, Dear Father."
- 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: Frank McGrath Target entity description: Frank McGrath was an American character actor best known for his roles in Western films and television series, particularly as the scout Charlie Wooster on the TV show "Wagon Train."
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A.
Paul McAuliffe
Paul McAuliffe is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency and is a former Lord Mayor of Dublin.
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B.
Jack McMahon
Jack McMahon was an American professional basketball coach and former NBA player best known for his coaching tenure in the 1960s, including leading the Cincinnati Royals.
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C.
Frank McHugh
Frank McHugh was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, often playing comic sidekicks and supporting roles.
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D.
Tom McGrath
Tom McGrath is an American animator, voice actor, and film director best known for co-creating and directing the Madagascar film series and directing the animated feature Megamind.
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E.
Patrick Cargill
Patrick Cargill was a British actor best known for his comic roles on stage, film, and television, particularly in the sitcom "Father, Dear Father."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | McGrath ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Western films
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Western television series ⓘ acting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | Western ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Charlie Wooster, the scout, on Wagon Train
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scout on Wagon Train ⓘ |
| knownFor | role of Charlie Wooster in Wagon Train ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ |
| name | Frank McGrath ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableGenre | Western television ⓘ |
| notableWork | Wagon Train ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOfCastOf | Wagon Train ⓘ |
| portrayed | Charlie Wooster ⓘ |
| workedOn | Wagon Train ⓘ |
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: Frank McGrath Description of subject: Frank McGrath was an American character actor best known for his roles in Western films and television series, particularly as the scout Charlie Wooster on the TV show "Wagon Train."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.