Dave McCary
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Dave McCary is an American writer, director, and comedian best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and for co-founding the sketch comedy group Good Neighbor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dave McCary canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1242635 — 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: Dave McCary Context triple: [Emma Stone, spouse, Dave McCary]
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A.
Andrew Carnes
Andrew Carnes is a character in the musical "Oklahoma!", known as the protective father of Ado Annie.
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B.
C. J. Cregg
C. J. Cregg is a fictional White House Press Secretary and later Chief of Staff on the political drama series "The West Wing," known for her sharp wit, integrity, and commanding presence in the briefing room.
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C.
Jack Driscoll
Jack Driscoll is a central heroic character in the 1933 film "King Kong," serving as the ship's first mate and the primary human protagonist who helps rescue Ann Darrow from the giant ape.
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D.
Ed McCauley
Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
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E.
Paul Devorski
Paul Devorski is a retired Canadian National Hockey League referee known for officiating numerous high-profile games over his long career.
- 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: Dave McCary Target entity description: Dave McCary is an American writer, director, and comedian best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and for co-founding the sketch comedy group Good Neighbor.
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A.
Andrew Carnes
Andrew Carnes is a character in the musical "Oklahoma!", known as the protective father of Ado Annie.
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B.
C. J. Cregg
C. J. Cregg is a fictional White House Press Secretary and later Chief of Staff on the political drama series "The West Wing," known for her sharp wit, integrity, and commanding presence in the briefing room.
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C.
Jack Driscoll
Jack Driscoll is a central heroic character in the 1933 film "King Kong," serving as the ship's first mate and the primary human protagonist who helps rescue Ann Darrow from the giant ape.
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D.
Ed McCauley
Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
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E.
Paul Devorski
Paul Devorski is a retired Canadian National Hockey League referee known for officiating numerous high-profile games over his long career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| coFounded | Good Neighbor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directorOf | Brigsby Bear ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Southern California ⓘ |
| employer | Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| familyName | McCary ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film directing
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screenwriting ⓘ television comedy ⓘ |
| genre | sketch comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Dave ⓘ |
| hasPartnershipWith |
Beck Bennett
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Kyle Mooney ⓘ Nick Rutherford ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriagePartner | Emma Stone ⓘ |
| memberOf | Good Neighbor ⓘ |
| name | Dave McCary self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brigsby Bear
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Good Neighbor sketches ⓘ Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| occupation |
comedian
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director ⓘ film director ⓘ producer ⓘ television director ⓘ television writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| spouse | Emma Stone ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Los Angeles
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New York City ⓘ |
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: Dave McCary Description of subject: Dave McCary is an American writer, director, and comedian best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and for co-founding the sketch comedy group Good Neighbor.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.