Edward McDermott
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Edward McDermott is a film editor known for his work on the silent romantic comedy "My Best Girl" (1927) starring Mary Pickford.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edward M. McDermott | 1 |
| Edward McDermott canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12522481 — 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: Edward McDermott Context triple: [My Best Girl, editedBy, Edward McDermott]
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A.
Robert McDermott
Robert McDermott is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals and public figures in various fields.
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B.
Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
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C.
Stephen P. Synnott
Stephen P. Synnott is an American astronomer known for his work with the Voyager missions, during which he discovered several moons of the outer planets.
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D.
Richard E. Keating
Richard E. Keating was an American physicist best known for co-conducting the Hafele–Keating experiment that tested time dilation using atomic clocks flown on commercial airliners.
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E.
William Drennan
William Drennan was an Irish physician, poet, and political radical best known as a leading advocate of Irish republicanism and civil rights in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- 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: Edward McDermott Target entity description: Edward McDermott is a film editor known for his work on the silent romantic comedy "My Best Girl" (1927) starring Mary Pickford.
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A.
Robert McDermott
Robert McDermott is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals and public figures in various fields.
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B.
Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
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C.
Stephen P. Synnott
Stephen P. Synnott is an American astronomer known for his work with the Voyager missions, during which he discovered several moons of the outer planets.
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D.
Richard E. Keating
Richard E. Keating was an American physicist best known for co-conducting the Hafele–Keating experiment that tested time dilation using atomic clocks flown on commercial airliners.
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E.
William Drennan
William Drennan was an Irish physician, poet, and political radical best known as a leading advocate of Irish republicanism and civil rights in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Edward McDermott