McNally
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McNally is the surname of acclaimed American playwright and screenwriter Terrence McNally, known for his influential contributions to contemporary theater.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McNally canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2146766 — 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: McNally Context triple: [Terrence McNally, familyName, McNally]
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A.
Minnelli
Minnelli is a distinguished Italian-American show business family name most famously associated with entertainer Liza Minnelli and film director Vincente Minnelli.
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B.
Mulally
Mulally is the surname of Alan Mulally, the American engineer and former CEO known for leading major turnarounds at Boeing and Ford Motor Company.
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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.
Kennelly
Kennelly is a surname most notably associated with Arthur E. Kennelly, an influential electrical engineer and physicist known for his work on alternating current theory and the ionosphere.
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E.
Millar
Millar is a surname and variant spelling of Miller, commonly found in English-speaking countries.
- 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: McNally Target entity description: McNally is the surname of acclaimed American playwright and screenwriter Terrence McNally, known for his influential contributions to contemporary theater.
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A.
Minnelli
Minnelli is a distinguished Italian-American show business family name most famously associated with entertainer Liza Minnelli and film director Vincente Minnelli.
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B.
Mulally
Mulally is the surname of Alan Mulally, the American engineer and former CEO known for leading major turnarounds at Boeing and Ford Motor Company.
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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.
Kennelly
Kennelly is a surname most notably associated with Arthur E. Kennelly, an influential electrical engineer and physicist known for his work on alternating current theory and the ionosphere.
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E.
Millar
Millar is a surname and variant spelling of Miller, commonly found in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
person ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Primetime Emmy Awards
ⓘ
surface form:
Primetime Emmy Award
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical ⓘ Tony Award for Best Play ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | McNally self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
musical theatre
ⓘ
screenwriting ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Terrence ⓘ |
| hasSurname | McNally self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| influenced | contemporary American theatre ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary theatre ⓘ |
| notableFor | exploration of LGBTQ themes in theatre ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Corpus Christi
ⓘ
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune ⓘ Kiss of the Spider Woman ⓘ Lips Together, Teeth Apart ⓘ Love! Valour! Compassion! ⓘ Master Class ⓘ Ragtime ⓘ The Lisbon Traviata ⓘ |
| occupation |
librettist
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| usedBy | Terrence McNally ⓘ |
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: McNally Description of subject: McNally is the surname of acclaimed American playwright and screenwriter Terrence McNally, known for his influential contributions to contemporary theater.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Terrence McNally
subject surface form:
Terrence McNally