Gerald Geraghty
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Gerald Geraghty was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century Western films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gerald Geraghty canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2547234 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gerald Geraghty Context triple: [The Bells of San Angelo, screenwriter, Gerald Geraghty]
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A.
Donald Malarkey
Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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B.
Tony Geraghty
Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
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C.
Gerry Cooney
Gerry Cooney is an American former heavyweight boxer best known for his powerful left hook and high-profile 1980s title fights, including his bout with Larry Holmes.
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D.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
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E.
Dennis Murphy
Dennis Murphy was an American sports entrepreneur best known for co-founding several upstart professional leagues, including the American Basketball Association.
- 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: Gerald Geraghty Target entity description: Gerald Geraghty was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century Western films.
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A.
Donald Malarkey
Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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B.
Tony Geraghty
Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
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C.
Gerry Cooney
Gerry Cooney is an American former heavyweight boxer best known for his powerful left hook and high-profile 1980s title fights, including his bout with Larry Holmes.
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D.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
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E.
Dennis Murphy
Dennis Murphy was an American sports entrepreneur best known for co-founding several upstart professional leagues, including the American Basketball Association.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | Western film ⓘ |
| knownFor | writing Western film screenplays ⓘ |
| notableWorkField | mid-20th-century Western films ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
20th century
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mid-20th century ⓘ |
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: Gerald Geraghty Description of subject: Gerald Geraghty was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century Western films.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.