Michael McDermott
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Michael McDermott is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an American singer-songwriter and a software engineer known for his work in technology and programming.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael McDermott canonical | 3 |
| Mike McDermott | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4069920 — 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: Michael McDermott Context triple: [McDermott, hasNotableBearer, Michael McDermott]
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A.
John Veals
John Veals is a ruthless, ultra-wealthy hedge fund manager in Sebastian Faulks’s novel "A Week in December," embodying the excesses and moral ambiguities of high finance in contemporary London.
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B.
Justin Haythe
Justin Haythe is a British-American screenwriter and novelist known for adapting literary works into acclaimed films such as "Revolutionary Road" and "A Cure for Wellness."
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C.
Thomas McElwee
Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
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D.
John Callaghan
John Callaghan is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably recorded as a bearer of the surname Callaghan.
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E.
Jay Gorney
Jay Gorney was an American composer best known for writing socially conscious songs for Broadway and film, including the music for the classic Depression-era anthem "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
- 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: Michael McDermott Target entity description: Michael McDermott is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an American singer-songwriter and a software engineer known for his work in technology and programming.
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A.
John Veals
John Veals is a ruthless, ultra-wealthy hedge fund manager in Sebastian Faulks’s novel "A Week in December," embodying the excesses and moral ambiguities of high finance in contemporary London.
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B.
Justin Haythe
Justin Haythe is a British-American screenwriter and novelist known for adapting literary works into acclaimed films such as "Revolutionary Road" and "A Cure for Wellness."
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C.
Thomas McElwee
Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
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D.
John Callaghan
John Callaghan is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably recorded as a bearer of the surname Callaghan.
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E.
Jay Gorney
Jay Gorney was an American composer best known for writing socially conscious songs for Broadway and film, including the music for the classic Depression-era anthem "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| basedIn | Chicago ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer programming
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software engineering ⓘ technology industry ⓘ |
| genre |
Americana
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folk rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| hasPart | The Westies (band) ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://michael-mcdermott.com ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
620 W. Surf
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Bourbon Blue ⓘ Gethsemane ⓘ Hit Me Back ⓘ Orphans ⓘ Out From Under ⓘ
linked to:
Out from Under
St. Paul’s Boulevard ⓘ What in the World ⓘ Willow Springs ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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programmer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ software engineer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| spouse | Heather Horton ⓘ |
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: Michael McDermott Description of subject: Michael McDermott is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an American singer-songwriter and a software engineer known for his work in technology and programming.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Michael McDermott