Mickey McGinnes
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Mickey McGinnes is a fictional Irish immigrant character from the television drama series "Hell on Wheels."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mickey McGinnes canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8665163 — 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: Mickey McGinnes Context triple: [Phil Burke, portrayed, Mickey McGinnes]
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A.
Charlie McFadden
Charlie McFadden is a recurring, bumbling yet brave protagonist in the Critters film series who repeatedly battles the alien creatures known as Crites.
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B.
Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald is a Scottish former professional footballer best known as a prolific striker for clubs such as Motherwell, Celtic, and Middlesbrough, as well as the Australian national team.
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C.
Jimmy McCann
Jimmy McCann is a character in Stephen King’s short story “Quitters, Inc.” who serves as a cautionary example of the extreme and sinister methods used by the company to enforce smoking cessation.
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D.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
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E.
Malcolm McGregor
Malcolm McGregor was an American silent film actor active in the 1920s, known for his leading-man roles in romantic dramas and adventures.
- 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: Mickey McGinnes Target entity description: Mickey McGinnes is a fictional Irish immigrant character from the television drama series "Hell on Wheels."
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A.
Charlie McFadden
Charlie McFadden is a recurring, bumbling yet brave protagonist in the Critters film series who repeatedly battles the alien creatures known as Crites.
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B.
Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald is a Scottish former professional footballer best known as a prolific striker for clubs such as Motherwell, Celtic, and Middlesbrough, as well as the Australian national team.
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C.
Jimmy McCann
Jimmy McCann is a character in Stephen King’s short story “Quitters, Inc.” who serves as a cautionary example of the extreme and sinister methods used by the company to enforce smoking cessation.
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D.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
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E.
Malcolm McGregor
Malcolm McGregor was an American silent film actor active in the 1920s, known for his leading-man roles in romantic dramas and adventures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish immigrant
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fictional character ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Hell on Wheels ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Hell on Wheels (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hell on Wheels
|
| characterOrigin | created for television ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginInFiction | Ireland ⓘ |
| fictionalEthnicity | Irish ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | Western drama ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Sean McGinnes ⓘ |
| languageSpokenInFiction | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Irish ⓘ |
| occupationInFiction |
businessman
ⓘ
laborer ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
Hell on Wheels franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Hell on Wheels
|
| portrayedInMedium | live-action television ⓘ |
| primaryLocationInFiction | railroad camp ⓘ |
| settingContext | construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad ⓘ |
| settingOfFiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
economic ambition
ⓘ
frontier life ⓘ immigration ⓘ |
| workOfFictionType | television drama series ⓘ |
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: Mickey McGinnes Description of subject: Mickey McGinnes is a fictional Irish immigrant character from the television drama series "Hell on Wheels."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.