Sally McKenna
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Sally McKenna is a troubled, drug-addicted ghost who haunts the Hotel Cortez in the television series "American Horror Story: Hotel."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sally McKenna canonical | 2 |
| Hypodermic Sally McKenna | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9582264 — 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: Sally McKenna Context triple: [Sarah Paulson, characterPortrayed, Sally McKenna]
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A.
Mary McCreary
Mary McCreary is an American singer and songwriter known for her soulful vocals, solo work, and collaborations in rock and R&B, including her marriage and musical partnership with Leon Russell.
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B.
Sally O’Neil
Sally O’Neil was an American film actress of the silent and early sound era, known for her vivacious screen presence in late 1920s Hollywood comedies and dramas.
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C.
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Elizabeth McLaughlin is an American actress known for her roles in television series such as the psychological drama "Hand of God."
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D.
Colleen Galaher
Colleen Galaher is a central fictional character in James Patterson’s thriller novel "Cradle and All," around whom much of the book’s mystery and suspense revolves.
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E.
Alvirah Meehan
Alvirah Meehan is an amateur sleuth and former cleaning woman turned lottery winner who appears as the sharp, nosy, and warm-hearted protagonist in Mary Higgins Clark’s mystery stories.
- 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: Sally McKenna Target entity description: Sally McKenna is a troubled, drug-addicted ghost who haunts the Hotel Cortez in the television series "American Horror Story: Hotel."
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A.
Mary McCreary
Mary McCreary is an American singer and songwriter known for her soulful vocals, solo work, and collaborations in rock and R&B, including her marriage and musical partnership with Leon Russell.
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B.
Sally O’Neil
Sally O’Neil was an American film actress of the silent and early sound era, known for her vivacious screen presence in late 1920s Hollywood comedies and dramas.
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C.
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Elizabeth McLaughlin is an American actress known for her roles in television series such as the psychological drama "Hand of God."
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D.
Colleen Galaher
Colleen Galaher is a central fictional character in James Patterson’s thriller novel "Cradle and All," around whom much of the book’s mystery and suspense revolves.
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E.
Alvirah Meehan
Alvirah Meehan is an amateur sleuth and former cleaning woman turned lottery winner who appears as the sharp, nosy, and warm-hearted protagonist in Mary Higgins Clark’s mystery stories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| addiction | heroin ⓘ |
| alias | Hypodermic Sally ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
American Horror Story
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American Horror Story: Hotel ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hypodermic Sally
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Iris ⓘ James Patrick March ⓘ John Lowe ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | drug overdose ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Brad Falchuk
ⓘ
Ryan Murphy ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Hotel Cortez ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
American Horror Story: Hotel, Episode 1 "Checking In"
ⓘ
linked to:
American Horror Story: Hotel
|
| franchise |
American Horror Story franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
American Horror Story
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| hairColor | blonde ⓘ |
| hasEmotion |
despair
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loneliness ⓘ |
| haunts | Hotel Cortez ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonist
ⓘ
antihero ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| network | FX ⓘ |
| occupation | drug dealer ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
manipulative
ⓘ
needy ⓘ troubled ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Sarah Paulson ⓘ |
| residence | Hotel Cortez ⓘ |
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| species | ghost ⓘ |
| stateOfBeing | dead ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 2010s television characters ⓘ |
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: Sally McKenna Description of subject: Sally McKenna is a troubled, drug-addicted ghost who haunts the Hotel Cortez in the television series "American Horror Story: Hotel."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sally McKenna