C. R. MacNamara
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C. R. MacNamara is the fast-talking, ambitious Coca-Cola executive stationed in West Berlin who serves as the central comic figure in Billy Wilder’s Cold War satire "One, Two, Three."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| C. R. MacNamara canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4623195 — 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: C. R. MacNamara Context triple: [One, Two, Three, leadCharacter, C. R. MacNamara]
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A.
Norman Z. McLeod
Norman Z. McLeod was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, including films with the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields.
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B.
Donald R. McLennan
Donald R. McLennan was an American insurance executive and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the global professional services firm Marsh & McLennan.
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C.
Robert Lister MacNeil
Robert Lister MacNeil was a 20th-century Scottish-American clan chief and preservationist best known for reviving the historic Clan MacNeil seat on the Isle of Barra and promoting Scottish heritage.
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D.
John B. Purcell
John B. Purcell was a 19th-century American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cincinnati and was known for his public debates defending Catholic doctrine.
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E.
Donald C. MacPherson
Donald C. MacPherson was the injured consumer whose landmark lawsuit against Buick Motor Company helped establish modern product liability law in the United States.
- 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: C. R. MacNamara Target entity description: C. R. MacNamara is the fast-talking, ambitious Coca-Cola executive stationed in West Berlin who serves as the central comic figure in Billy Wilder’s Cold War satire "One, Two, Three."
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A.
Norman Z. McLeod
Norman Z. McLeod was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, including films with the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields.
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B.
Donald R. McLennan
Donald R. McLennan was an American insurance executive and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the global professional services firm Marsh & McLennan.
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C.
Robert Lister MacNeil
Robert Lister MacNeil was a 20th-century Scottish-American clan chief and preservationist best known for reviving the historic Clan MacNeil seat on the Isle of Barra and promoting Scottish heritage.
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D.
John B. Purcell
John B. Purcell was a 19th-century American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cincinnati and was known for his public debates defending Catholic doctrine.
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E.
Donald C. MacPherson
Donald C. MacPherson was the injured consumer whose landmark lawsuit against Buick Motor Company helped establish modern product liability law in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | One, Two, Three ⓘ |
| characterIn | One, Two, Three ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy |
Billy Wilder
ⓘ
I. A. L. Diamond ⓘ |
| employer | The Coca-Cola Company ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | One, Two, Three (1961 film) ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | Cold War satire ⓘ |
| goal |
advance his career in the Coca-Cola company
ⓘ
secure a major promotion to London ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
Cold War-era corporate politics
ⓘ
comic attempts to manage his boss’s daughter ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central comic figure
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protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | Coca-Cola executive ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
ambitious
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fast-talking ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | James Cagney ⓘ |
| position | head of Coca-Cola operations in West Berlin ⓘ |
| setting | West Berlin ⓘ |
| workDirector | Billy Wilder ⓘ |
| workScreenwriter |
Billy Wilder
ⓘ
I. A. L. Diamond ⓘ |
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: C. R. MacNamara Description of subject: C. R. MacNamara is the fast-talking, ambitious Coca-Cola executive stationed in West Berlin who serves as the central comic figure in Billy Wilder’s Cold War satire "One, Two, Three."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.