John C. McGinley
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John C. McGinley is an American character actor best known for his roles in films like "Platoon" and as Dr. Perry Cox on the television series "Scrubs."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John C. McGinley canonical | 11 |
| John Christopher McGinley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3198024 — 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: John C. McGinley Context triple: [Platoon, starring, John C. McGinley]
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A.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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B.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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C.
Michael O'Laughlen
Michael O'Laughlen was an American Confederate sympathizer and associate of John Wilkes Booth who was implicated as a co-conspirator in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Brett Cullen
Brett Cullen is an American actor known for his numerous film and television roles, including playing Thomas Wayne in the 2019 film "Joker."
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E.
James Brolin
James Brolin is an American actor and director known for his roles in film and television, including "Westworld," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," and "Hotel."
- 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: John C. McGinley Target entity description: John C. McGinley is an American character actor best known for his roles in films like "Platoon" and as Dr. Perry Cox on the television series "Scrubs."
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A.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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B.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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C.
Michael O'Laughlen
Michael O'Laughlen was an American Confederate sympathizer and associate of John Wilkes Booth who was implicated as a co-conspirator in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Brett Cullen
Brett Cullen is an American actor known for his numerous film and television roles, including playing Thomas Wayne in the 2019 film "Joker."
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E.
James Brolin
James Brolin is an American actor and director known for his roles in film and television, including "Westworld," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," and "Hotel."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: John C. McGinley Description of subject: John C. McGinley is an American character actor best known for his roles in films like "Platoon" and as Dr. Perry Cox on the television series "Scrubs."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Perry Cox
this entity surface form:
John Christopher McGinley