Elena McNulty
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Elena McNulty is a character in the television series "The Wire," known primarily as the ex-wife of detective Jimmy McNulty and the mother of his children.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elena McNulty canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8440888 — 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: Elena McNulty Context triple: [Jimmy McNulty, hasSpouse, Elena McNulty]
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A.
Erin McDermott
Erin McDermott is a collegiate sports administrator best known as the athletic director at Harvard University.
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B.
Rebecca McGuinness
Rebecca McGuinness is known as the wife of renowned English motorcycle road racer John McGuinness.
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C.
Amanda Naughton
Amanda Naughton is an American actress best known for her starring role on the 1990s television series "Remember WENN."
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D.
Kate Nelligan
Kate Nelligan is a Canadian actress acclaimed for her work in film, television, and theatre, noted for her intense dramatic performances and multiple award nominations.
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E.
Nicole Shanahan
Nicole Shanahan is an American attorney, legal tech entrepreneur, and philanthropist known for founding the patent management company ClearAccessIP and for her high-profile marriage to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
- 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: Elena McNulty Target entity description: Elena McNulty is a character in the television series "The Wire," known primarily as the ex-wife of detective Jimmy McNulty and the mother of his children.
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A.
Erin McDermott
Erin McDermott is a collegiate sports administrator best known as the athletic director at Harvard University.
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B.
Rebecca McGuinness
Rebecca McGuinness is known as the wife of renowned English motorcycle road racer John McGuinness.
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C.
Amanda Naughton
Amanda Naughton is an American actress best known for her starring role on the 1990s television series "Remember WENN."
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D.
Kate Nelligan
Kate Nelligan is a Canadian actress acclaimed for her work in film, television, and theatre, noted for her intense dramatic performances and multiple award nominations.
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E.
Nicole Shanahan
Nicole Shanahan is an American attorney, legal tech entrepreneur, and philanthropist known for founding the patent management company ClearAccessIP and for her high-profile marriage to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Wire ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | police procedural ⓘ |
| basedIn | Baltimore ⓘ |
| child |
Michael McNulty
ⓘ
Sean McNulty ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | David Simon ⓘ |
| familyName | McNulty ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Wire universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Wire
|
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Elena ⓘ |
| hasChildWith | Jimmy McNulty ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | Jimmy McNulty ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| network | HBO ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the ex-wife of Jimmy McNulty
ⓘ
being the mother of Jimmy McNulty’s children ⓘ |
| occupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| partOf | McNulty family ⓘ |
| portrayedInMedium | television ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jimmy McNulty
ⓘ
linked to:
James McNulty
|
| spouseStatus | ex-wife of Jimmy McNulty ⓘ |
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: Elena McNulty Description of subject: Elena McNulty is a character in the television series "The Wire," known primarily as the ex-wife of detective Jimmy McNulty and the mother of his children.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.