William McGann
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William McGann was an American cinematographer and film director active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on adventure and genre films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William McGann canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T120136 — 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: William McGann Context triple: [The Mark of Zorro, cinematographyBy, William McGann]
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A.
Michael H. Moloney
Michael H. Moloney is a physics-focused science policy and leadership professional who serves as the chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics.
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B.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
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C.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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D.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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E.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
- 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: William McGann Target entity description: William McGann was an American cinematographer and film director active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on adventure and genre films.
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A.
Michael H. Moloney
Michael H. Moloney is a physics-focused science policy and leadership professional who serves as the chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics.
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B.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
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C.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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D.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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E.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Hollywood film industry
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cinema ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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genre film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
work as an American cinematographer
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work as an American film director ⓘ |
| occupation |
cinematographer
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film director ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: William McGann Description of subject: William McGann was an American cinematographer and film director active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on adventure and genre films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.