Dan McGinty
E521415
Dan McGinty is the opportunistic drifter-turned-corrupt politician at the center of Preston Sturges’s 1940 political satire film "The Great McGinty."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dan McGinty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5442505 — 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: Dan McGinty Context triple: [The Great McGinty, hasCharacter, Dan McGinty]
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A.
Andrew Macdonald
Andrew Macdonald is a British film producer best known for his collaborations with director Danny Boyle on acclaimed films such as "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later."
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B.
Mark MacGuigan
Mark MacGuigan was a Canadian Liberal politician, law professor, and federal cabinet minister who notably served as Canada’s Secretary of State for External Affairs in the early 1980s.
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C.
Doug McKeon
Doug McKeon is an American actor best known for his acclaimed performance as the teenage boy in the classic 1981 film "On Golden Pond."
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D.
Dennis McGlade
Dennis McGlade is a key executive leader associated with OLIN, a prominent landscape architecture and urban design firm.
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E.
Fred Kilgour
Fred Kilgour was an American librarian and information scientist best known for pioneering online library cataloging and founding the OCLC cooperative.
- 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: Dan McGinty Target entity description: Dan McGinty is the opportunistic drifter-turned-corrupt politician at the center of Preston Sturges’s 1940 political satire film "The Great McGinty."
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A.
Andrew Macdonald
Andrew Macdonald is a British film producer best known for his collaborations with director Danny Boyle on acclaimed films such as "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later."
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B.
Mark MacGuigan
Mark MacGuigan was a Canadian Liberal politician, law professor, and federal cabinet minister who notably served as Canada’s Secretary of State for External Affairs in the early 1980s.
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C.
Doug McKeon
Doug McKeon is an American actor best known for his acclaimed performance as the teenage boy in the classic 1981 film "On Golden Pond."
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D.
Dennis McGlade
Dennis McGlade is a key executive leader associated with OLIN, a prominent landscape architecture and urban design firm.
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E.
Fred Kilgour
Fred Kilgour was an American librarian and information scientist best known for pioneering online library cataloging and founding the OCLC cooperative.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Great McGinty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
corrupt
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opportunistic ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Preston Sturges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmTitle | The Great McGinty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | political satire ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| moralThemeAssociation |
opportunism
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political corruption ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| narrativeArc | rises from drifter to political power through corruption ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
drifter
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politician ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Brian Donlevy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studioContext | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workCountryOfOrigin | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workDirector | Preston Sturges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workFormat | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| workLanguage | English ⓘ |
| workReleaseYearContext | 1940 ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1940 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Dan McGinty Description of subject: Dan McGinty is the opportunistic drifter-turned-corrupt politician at the center of Preston Sturges’s 1940 political satire film "The Great McGinty."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.