Gary McKendry
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Gary McKendry is an Irish film director and screenwriter best known for helming the action thriller "Killer Elite" starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen, and Robert De Niro.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gary McKendry canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9789951 — 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: Gary McKendry Context triple: [Killer Elite, director, Gary McKendry]
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A.
Calvin Jarrett
Calvin Jarrett is a central character in the film "Ordinary People," depicted as a conflicted suburban father struggling to hold his family together after a tragic loss.
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B.
Kenny Kornegay
Kenny Kornegay is a music producer best known for his work on the R&B album "Faith" by singer Faith Evans.
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C.
Richie Stotts
Richie Stotts is an American guitarist best known as a founding member of the shock rock band Plasmatics.
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D.
Merv Jackson
Merv Jackson was a professional basketball guard best known for his key role with the Utah Stars in the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the early 1970s.
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E.
James Waddell
James Waddell was a Confederate naval officer best known for commanding the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah during the American Civil War.
- 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: Gary McKendry Target entity description: Gary McKendry is an Irish film director and screenwriter best known for helming the action thriller "Killer Elite" starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen, and Robert De Niro.
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A.
Calvin Jarrett
Calvin Jarrett is a central character in the film "Ordinary People," depicted as a conflicted suburban father struggling to hold his family together after a tragic loss.
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B.
Kenny Kornegay
Kenny Kornegay is a music producer best known for his work on the R&B album "Faith" by singer Faith Evans.
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C.
Richie Stotts
Richie Stotts is an American guitarist best known as a founding member of the shock rock band Plasmatics.
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D.
Merv Jackson
Merv Jackson was a professional basketball guard best known for his key role with the Utah Stars in the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the early 1970s.
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E.
James Waddell
James Waddell was a Confederate naval officer best known for commanding the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah during the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish person
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film ⓘ film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| castMember |
Clive Owen
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Jason Statham ⓘ Robert De Niro ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Gary McKendry ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film direction
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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action thriller film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| language |
English
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English ⓘ |
| notableFor | directing the film Killer Elite ⓘ |
| notableWork | Killer Elite ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Gary McKendry ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Gary McKendry Description of subject: Gary McKendry is an Irish film director and screenwriter best known for helming the action thriller "Killer Elite" starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen, and Robert De Niro.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.