DeForest Kelley
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DeForest Kelley was an American actor best known for portraying Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the original Star Trek television series and its subsequent films.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DeForest Kelley canonical | 36 |
| DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3096411 — 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: DeForest Kelley Context triple: [The Changeling, originalSeriesLeadActor, DeForest Kelley]
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A.
David Hedison
David Hedison was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the 1960s sci-fi series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and for appearing in two James Bond films.
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B.
Walter Koenig
Walter Koenig is an American actor best known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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C.
Peter D. Graves
Peter D. Graves is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood action and science fiction movies, including Terminator Salvation.
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D.
Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond was an American film and television actor, director, and composer active from the 1930s through the 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood dramas and musicals.
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E.
Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar was an American character actor best known for playing Peter Thornton on the television series "MacGyver" and for his numerous supporting roles in film and TV.
- 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: DeForest Kelley Target entity description: DeForest Kelley was an American actor best known for portraying Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the original Star Trek television series and its subsequent films.
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A.
David Hedison
David Hedison was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the 1960s sci-fi series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and for appearing in two James Bond films.
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B.
Walter Koenig
Walter Koenig is an American actor best known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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C.
Peter D. Graves
Peter D. Graves is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood action and science fiction movies, including Terminator Salvation.
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D.
Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond was an American film and television actor, director, and composer active from the 1930s through the 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood dramas and musicals.
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E.
Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar was an American character actor best known for playing Peter Thornton on the television series "MacGyver" and for his numerous supporting roles in film and TV.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: DeForest Kelley Description of subject: DeForest Kelley was an American actor best known for portraying Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the original Star Trek television series and its subsequent films.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
"The Changeling"
subject linked to:
Operation -- Annihilate!
subject linked to:
Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Man Trap"
subject linked to:
Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Space Seed"
subject linked to:
The key to saving the future can only be found in the past.
linked to: DeForest Kelley
subject linked to:
Star Trek episode "Arena"
subject linked to:
Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon"
subject linked to:
Star Trek episode "The Devil in the Dark"
subject linked to:
Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Menagerie, Part I"
subject linked to:
Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Menagerie, Part II"
subject linked to:
Star Trek (original series episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield")