Bones
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Bones is the nickname of Dr. Leonard McCoy, the irascible yet compassionate chief medical officer aboard the starship Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bones canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5214262 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Bones Context triple: [Leonard McCoy, alsoKnownAs, Bones]
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Bones
Bones is the nickname of Bones McKinney, a notable American basketball player and coach from the mid-20th century.
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B.
Bones
"Bones" is the official theme song used for WWE's WrestleMania 29 event.
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C.
Bones
Bones is a 2001 supernatural horror film starring Snoop Dogg as a murdered man who returns from the dead to exact revenge.
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D.
Bones
Bones is a popular American crime procedural television series that blends forensic anthropology with FBI investigations, following Dr. Temperance Brennan and Agent Seeley Booth as they solve murders using skeletal evidence.
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E.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a popular American procedural drama series that follows forensic investigators as they use scientific techniques to solve crimes.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bones Target entity description: Bones is the nickname of Dr. Leonard McCoy, the irascible yet compassionate chief medical officer aboard the starship Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.
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A.
Bones
Bones is the nickname of Bones McKinney, a notable American basketball player and coach from the mid-20th century.
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B.
Bones
Bones is a 2001 supernatural horror film starring Snoop Dogg as a murdered man who returns from the dead to exact revenge.
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C.
Bones
"Bones" is the official theme song used for WWE's WrestleMania 29 event.
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D.
Bones
Bones is a popular American crime procedural television series that blends forensic anthropology with FBI investigations, following Dr. Temperance Brennan and Agent Seeley Booth as they solve murders using skeletal evidence.
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E.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a popular American procedural drama series that follows forensic investigators as they use scientific techniques to solve crimes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Star Trek character
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fictional character ⓘ |
| affiliation | United Federation of Planets ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Star Trek feature films (original cast)
ⓘ
linked to:
Star Trek feature films
Star Trek reboot film series ⓘ
linked to:
Star Trek (Kelvin timeline)
Star Trek: The Animated Series ⓘ |
| catchphrase |
He’s dead, Jim.
ⓘ
I’m a doctor, not a bricklayer. ⓘ I’m a doctor, not a mechanic. ⓘ I’m a doctor, not an engineer. ⓘ |
| closeFriendOf |
James T. Kirk
ⓘ
Spock ⓘ |
| creator | Gene Roddenberry ⓘ |
| education | Starfleet Medical Academy ⓘ |
| employer | Starfleet ⓘ |
| familyName | McCoy ⓘ |
| fieldOfExpertise |
medicine
ⓘ
xenomedicine ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Star Trek: The Original Series ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceEpisode |
"The Man Trap"
ⓘ
linked to:
The Man Trap
|
| firstAppearanceYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| franchise | Star Trek ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Leonard ⓘ |
| homeworld | Earth ⓘ |
| knownFor |
emotional, humanistic perspective
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skepticism toward technology and transporters ⓘ |
| loyalty | crew of the USS Enterprise ⓘ |
| medicalSpecialty |
general practitioner
ⓘ
surgeon ⓘ |
| nationalOrigin | Southern United States ⓘ |
| nickname | Bones ⓘ |
| notableRelationship | professional rivalry and friendship with Spock ⓘ |
| occupation |
chief medical officer
ⓘ
starship physician ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
compassionate
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irascible ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
DeForest Kelley
ⓘ
Karl Urban ⓘ |
| position | chief medical officer of the USS Enterprise ⓘ |
| rank |
Captain
ⓘ
Commander ⓘ Lieutenant Commander ⓘ |
| realName |
Leonard H. McCoy
ⓘ
linked to:
Leonard McCoy
|
| roleInNarrative | moral conscience of the crew ⓘ |
| serviceBranch |
Starfleet Medical
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linked to:
Starfleet Medical on Earth
|
| species | Human ⓘ |
| starshipAssignment |
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
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USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) ⓘ |
| title | Doctor ⓘ |
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: Bones Description of subject: Bones is the nickname of Dr. Leonard McCoy, the irascible yet compassionate chief medical officer aboard the starship Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Joanna McCoy