McCoy
E503703
McCoy is a common Scottish and Irish surname often associated with the phrase "the real McCoy," meaning something genuine or authentic.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5214261 — 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: McCoy Context triple: [Leonard McCoy, familyName, McCoy]
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A.
Scotty
Scotty is the nickname of Scotty Bowman, the legendary National Hockey League coach widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport’s history.
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B.
O'Brien
O'Brien is a common Irish surname of Gaelic origin, historically associated with the descendants of the High King Brian Boru.
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C.
Moran
Moran is a surname most prominently associated with American jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran.
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D.
Rennie
Rennie is a Scottish surname most notably associated with the family of civil engineers, including John Rennie the Younger.
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E.
Humphreys
Humphreys is a small unincorporated community located within Lea County in southeastern New Mexico.
- 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: McCoy Target entity description: McCoy is a common Scottish and Irish surname often associated with the phrase "the real McCoy," meaning something genuine or authentic.
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A.
Scotty
Scotty is the nickname of Scotty Bowman, the legendary National Hockey League coach widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport’s history.
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B.
O'Brien
O'Brien is a common Irish surname of Gaelic origin, historically associated with the descendants of the High King Brian Boru.
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C.
Moran
Moran is a surname most prominently associated with American jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran.
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D.
Rennie
Rennie is a Scottish surname most notably associated with the family of civil engineers, including John Rennie the Younger.
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E.
Humphreys
Humphreys is a small unincorporated community located within Lea County in southeastern New Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish surname
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Anglicised Irish-language surname
ⓘ
Anglicised Scottish Gaelic-language surname ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Irish
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
son of Aodh
ⓘ
son of Hugh ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Earl McCoy
ⓘ
Owen McCoy ⓘ Randy McCoy ⓘ
linked to:
Randolph McCoy
Sylvester McCoy ⓘ Tony McCoy ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
MacCoy
ⓘ
linked to:
McCoy
MacKay ⓘ McKoy ⓘ
linked to:
McCoy
|
| isAssociatedWithMeaning |
authentic
ⓘ
genuine ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWithPhrase |
the real McCoy
ⓘ
linked to:
The Real McCoy
|
| isDerivedFrom |
Gaelic Mac Aodha
ⓘ
Gaelic Mac Aoidh ⓘ
linked to:
Gaelic Mac Aodha
|
| isUsedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ Scotland ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: McCoy Description of subject: McCoy is a common Scottish and Irish surname often associated with the phrase "the real McCoy," meaning something genuine or authentic.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Randall McCoy in Hatfields & McCoys
linked to: McCoy
linked to: McCoy
subject linked to:
Colonel Michael Norman Wright McCoy
subject linked to:
Luke McCoy – Richard Crenna
subject linked to:
Amos McCoy – Walter Brennan
subject linked to:
Kate McCoy – Kathleen Nolan
subject linked to:
General Frank R. McCoy