Patrick McHale
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American person
animated television miniseries
animator
person
producer
storyboard artist
television director
television writer
Patrick McHale is an American animator, writer, and director best known as the creator of the animated miniseries "Over the Garden Wall" and for his work on various acclaimed animated projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick McHale canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9966958 — 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: Patrick McHale Context triple: [Geppetto (Guillermo del Toro film character), createdBy, Patrick McHale]
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A.
Joel McHale
Joel McHale is an American actor, comedian, and television host best known for leading the satirical series "The Soup" and starring on the sitcom "Community."
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B.
Kyle Mooney
Kyle Mooney is an American comedian, actor, and writer best known as a former Saturday Night Live cast member and for his offbeat, awkwardly humorous characters and sketches.
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C.
Chris Redd
Chris Redd is an American comedian and actor known for his work on Saturday Night Live and roles in films and TV comedies.
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D.
Andy Richter
Andy Richter is an American comedian and actor best known as Conan O’Brien’s longtime talk-show sidekick and for his roles in various film and television comedies.
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E.
Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up, podcast appearances, and character roles in television and film.
- 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: Patrick McHale Target entity description: Patrick McHale is an American animator, writer, and director best known as the creator of the animated miniseries "Over the Garden Wall" and for his work on various acclaimed animated projects.
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A.
Joel McHale
Joel McHale is an American actor, comedian, and television host best known for leading the satirical series "The Soup" and starring on the sitcom "Community."
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B.
Kyle Mooney
Kyle Mooney is an American comedian, actor, and writer best known as a former Saturday Night Live cast member and for his offbeat, awkwardly humorous characters and sketches.
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C.
Chris Redd
Chris Redd is an American comedian and actor known for his work on Saturday Night Live and roles in films and TV comedies.
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D.
Andy Richter
Andy Richter is an American comedian and actor best known as Conan O’Brien’s longtime talk-show sidekick and for his roles in various film and television comedies.
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E.
Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up, podcast appearances, and character roles in television and film.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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animated television miniseries ⓘ animator ⓘ person ⓘ producer ⓘ storyboard artist ⓘ television director ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Patrick McHale ⓘ |
| creatorOf | Over the Garden Wall ⓘ |
| employer | Cartoon Network ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animation
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screenwriting ⓘ television ⓘ |
| format | miniseries ⓘ |
| genre |
animation
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children's television ⓘ dark comedy ⓘ fantasy ⓘ fantasy ⓘ mystery ⓘ |
| hasCreativeRole |
series creator
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showrunner ⓘ |
| knownFor | Over the Garden Wall ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Adventure Time
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Over the Garden Wall ⓘ The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack ⓘ |
| occupation |
animator
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director ⓘ producer ⓘ storyboard artist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Cartoon Network ⓘ |
| roleIn |
creative director on Adventure Time
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creator of Over the Garden Wall ⓘ director on Over the Garden Wall ⓘ storyboard artist on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack ⓘ writer on Adventure Time ⓘ writer on Over the Garden Wall ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Adventure Time
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Over the Garden Wall ⓘ The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack ⓘ |
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: Patrick McHale Description of subject: Patrick McHale is an American animator, writer, and director best known as the creator of the animated miniseries "Over the Garden Wall" and for his work on various acclaimed animated projects.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Geppetto
subject linked to:
Patrick McHale
subject linked to:
Adventure Time episode "The Enchiridion!"
subject linked to:
Adventure Time episode "The Enchiridion!"
subject linked to:
Adventure Time episode "The Enchiridion!"