Tom McLoughlin
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Tom McLoughlin is an American film and television director and screenwriter best known for his work in the horror genre, including directing "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom McLoughlin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8243921 — 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: Tom McLoughlin Context triple: [Sometimes They Come Back, adaptationDirector, Tom McLoughlin]
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A.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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B.
Kevin McLaughlin
Kevin McLaughlin is a literary scholar and translator known for his English translation of Walter Benjamin’s "The Arcades Project."
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C.
Sean McNamara
Sean McNamara is an American film and television director and producer known for family-oriented and inspirational movies such as "Soul Surfer."
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D.
Doug McMillan
Doug McMillan is an American business executive best known as the president and chief executive officer of Walmart Inc.
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E.
Jim O’Brien
Jim O’Brien is a former American football placekicker best known for kicking the game-winning field goal for the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V.
- 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: Tom McLoughlin Target entity description: Tom McLoughlin is an American film and television director and screenwriter best known for his work in the horror genre, including directing "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives."
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A.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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B.
Kevin McLaughlin
Kevin McLaughlin is a literary scholar and translator known for his English translation of Walter Benjamin’s "The Arcades Project."
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C.
Sean McNamara
Sean McNamara is an American film and television director and producer known for family-oriented and inspirational movies such as "Soul Surfer."
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D.
Doug McMillan
Doug McMillan is an American business executive best known as the president and chief executive officer of Walmart Inc.
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E.
Jim O’Brien
Jim O’Brien is a former American football placekicker best known for kicking the game-winning field goal for the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-07-19 ⓘ |
| directed |
Date with an Angel
NERFINISHED
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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives NERFINISHED ⓘ Murder in Greenwich NERFINISHED ⓘ One Dark Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Sometimes They Come Back NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen King’s Sometimes They Come Back (TV film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Borrower NERFINISHED ⓘ The Haunting of Helen Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ The Night Stalker (1987 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Unsaid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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screenwriting ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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television film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | contributions to the Friday the 13th film series ⓘ |
| notableGenreContribution | slasher films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Date with an Angel
NERFINISHED
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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives NERFINISHED ⓘ One Dark Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Sometimes They Come Back NERFINISHED ⓘ The Borrower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Nancy McLoughlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
American horror films
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American television movies ⓘ American thriller films ⓘ |
| wrote |
Date with an Angel
NERFINISHED
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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives NERFINISHED ⓘ One Dark Night NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Tom McLoughlin Description of subject: Tom McLoughlin is an American film and television director and screenwriter best known for his work in the horror genre, including directing "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.