Jackson DeForest Kelley
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Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor best known for portraying Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the original Star Trek television series and films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jackson DeForest Kelley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13051881 — 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: Jackson DeForest Kelley Context triple: [DeForest Kelley, birthName, Jackson DeForest Kelley]
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A.
Andrew Kelley
Andrew Kelley is a software engineer best known as the creator and lead developer of the Zig programming language.
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B.
Jack Kelley
Jack Kelley was an American ice hockey coach best known for leading the New England Whalers to early success in the World Hockey Association.
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C.
Jon Kelley
Jon Kelley is an American television personality and sportscaster best known for hosting game and entertainment shows, including the comedy game show "Funny You Should Ask."
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D.
Arch Kelley III
Arch Kelley III is an American businessman best known as the first husband of country music singer Wynonna Judd.
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E.
Josh Kelley
Josh Kelley is an American singer-songwriter known for his blend of pop, rock, and country influences and for hits like "Amazing" and "Only You."
- 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: Jackson DeForest Kelley Target entity description: Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor best known for portraying Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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A.
Andrew Kelley
Andrew Kelley is a software engineer best known as the creator and lead developer of the Zig programming language.
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B.
Jack Kelley
Jack Kelley was an American ice hockey coach best known for leading the New England Whalers to early success in the World Hockey Association.
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C.
Jon Kelley
Jon Kelley is an American television personality and sportscaster best known for hosting game and entertainment shows, including the comedy game show "Funny You Should Ask."
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D.
Arch Kelley III
Arch Kelley III is an American businessman best known as the first husband of country music singer Wynonna Judd.
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E.
Josh Kelley
Josh Kelley is an American singer-songwriter known for his blend of pop, rock, and country influences and for hits like "Amazing" and "Only You."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| almaMater | Decatur Boys High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stomach cancer ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Bones McCoy
NERFINISHED
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Dr. Leonard McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-01-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999-06-11 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Kelley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction television ⓘ |
| givenName |
DeForest
NERFINISHED
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Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFandom | Star Trek fandom ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in Star Trek ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1945 ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army Air Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name |
DeForest Kelley
NERFINISHED
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Jackson DeForest Kelley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
NERFINISHED
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Star Trek NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek III: The Search for Spock NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek V: The Final Frontier NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: The Motion Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: The Original Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Star Trek: The Original Series ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Toccoa, Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Star Trek franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| servedIn | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Carolyn Dowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfOrigin | Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Leonard Nimoy
NERFINISHED
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William Shatner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1940s–1990s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jackson DeForest Kelley Description of subject: Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor best known for portraying Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the original Star Trek television series and films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.