Horace McCoy
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Horace McCoy was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled crime fiction, including the classic novel "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Horace McCoy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4763870 — 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: Horace McCoy Context triple: [Gentleman Jim, screenwriter, Horace McCoy]
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A.
Horace Albert McKinney
Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney was an American basketball player and coach best known for his colorful personality and successful coaching career at Wake Forest University.
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B.
C. T. Wilkins
C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
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C.
H. M. Woodard
H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
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D.
Don Carlos Smith
Don Carlos Smith was a younger brother of Joseph Smith who served as an early leader and publisher in the Latter Day Saint movement before his death in 1841.
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E.
Archdale Wilson
Archdale Wilson was a British Army officer best known for leading the successful recapture of Delhi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
- 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: Horace McCoy Target entity description: Horace McCoy was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled crime fiction, including the classic novel "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?".
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A.
Horace Albert McKinney
Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney was an American basketball player and coach best known for his colorful personality and successful coaching career at Wake Forest University.
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B.
C. T. Wilkins
C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
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C.
H. M. Woodard
H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
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D.
Don Carlos Smith
Don Carlos Smith was a younger brother of Joseph Smith who served as an early leader and publisher in the Latter Day Saint movement before his death in 1841.
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E.
Archdale Wilson
Archdale Wilson was a British Army officer best known for leading the successful recapture of Delhi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime fiction writer
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human ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| author | Horace McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1897-04-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1955-12-15 ⓘ |
| employer | Dallas Journal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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hardboiled fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Horace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army Air Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Horace McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
I Should Have Stayed Home
NERFINISHED
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye NERFINISHED ⓘ No Pockets in a Shroud NERFINISHED ⓘ They Shoot Horses, Don't They? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| participantIn | World War I ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Pegram, Tennessee
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Beverly Hills, California
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| screenwriterFor | Hollywood films ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Dallas, Texas
NERFINISHED
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Hollywood ⓘ |
| wrote |
Corruption City
NERFINISHED
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I Should Have Stayed Home NERFINISHED ⓘ Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye NERFINISHED ⓘ No Pockets in a Shroud NERFINISHED ⓘ Scalps NERFINISHED ⓘ They Shoot Horses, Don't They? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Horace McCoy Description of subject: Horace McCoy was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled crime fiction, including the classic novel "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?".
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.