Patrick McGaw
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Patrick McGaw is an American actor best known for his role in the 1995 film "The Basketball Diaries" alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick McGaw canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2658443 — 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: Patrick McGaw Context triple: [The Basketball Diaries, castMember, Patrick McGaw]
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A.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
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B.
Patrick Kilpatrick
Patrick Kilpatrick is an American character actor, stuntman, and producer best known for his frequent villain roles in action films and television series.
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C.
Patrick Doherty
Patrick Doherty was one of the unarmed civil rights marchers shot and killed by British soldiers during the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972.
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D.
Brendan McFarlane
Brendan McFarlane is a former Provisional IRA member from Belfast, best known for his leadership role in the 1981 Irish hunger strikes and his involvement in high-profile republican operations during the Troubles.
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E.
Duncan Henderson
Duncan Henderson was an American film producer and production manager known for his work on major Hollywood films including "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
- 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: Patrick McGaw Target entity description: Patrick McGaw is an American actor best known for his role in the 1995 film "The Basketball Diaries" alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.
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A.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
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B.
Patrick Kilpatrick
Patrick Kilpatrick is an American character actor, stuntman, and producer best known for his frequent villain roles in action films and television series.
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C.
Patrick Doherty
Patrick Doherty was one of the unarmed civil rights marchers shot and killed by British soldiers during the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972.
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D.
Brendan McFarlane
Brendan McFarlane is a former Provisional IRA member from Belfast, best known for his leadership role in the 1981 Irish hunger strikes and his involvement in high-profile republican operations during the Troubles.
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E.
Duncan Henderson
Duncan Henderson was an American film producer and production manager known for his work on major Hollywood films including "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appearedIn | The Basketball Diaries ⓘ |
| castMember |
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Patrick McGaw self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| coStarredWith | Leonardo DiCaprio ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Basketball Diaries ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1995 ⓘ |
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: Patrick McGaw Description of subject: Patrick McGaw is an American actor best known for his role in the 1995 film "The Basketball Diaries" alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Basketball Diaries