Dr. McBrearty
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Dr. McBrearty is a physician character in Emma Donoghue’s novel *The Wonder*, responsible for medically assessing the fasting girl Anna O’Donnell.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. McBrearty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10890554 — 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: Dr. McBrearty Context triple: [Anna O'Donnell, examinedBy, Dr. McBrearty]
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A.
Dr. Michaela Quinn
Dr. Michaela Quinn is the pioneering female physician and central character of the television series "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," known for challenging 19th-century gender norms on the American frontier.
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B.
Dr. Leekie
Dr. Leekie is a central scientist and executive figure in the TV series "Orphan Black," known for his role in overseeing the ethically dubious Neolution genetic experiments.
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C.
Dr. Haggett
Dr. Haggett is a central character in the play "The Late Christopher Bean," portrayed as a small-town doctor whose moral choices are tested when a deceased artist’s suddenly valuable paintings disrupt his family’s life.
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D.
Dr. Mumford
Dr. Mumford is the fictional psychologist protagonist of the 1999 comedy-drama film "Mumford," known for his unconventional therapeutic methods in a small town.
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E.
Dr. Kate Corrigan
Dr. Kate Corrigan is a prominent scholar of the occult and a senior field leader within the Hellboy universe’s Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.).
- 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: Dr. McBrearty Target entity description: Dr. McBrearty is a physician character in Emma Donoghue’s novel *The Wonder*, responsible for medically assessing the fasting girl Anna O’Donnell.
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A.
Dr. Michaela Quinn
Dr. Michaela Quinn is the pioneering female physician and central character of the television series "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," known for challenging 19th-century gender norms on the American frontier.
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B.
Dr. Leekie
Dr. Leekie is a central scientist and executive figure in the TV series "Orphan Black," known for his role in overseeing the ethically dubious Neolution genetic experiments.
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C.
Dr. Haggett
Dr. Haggett is a central character in the play "The Late Christopher Bean," portrayed as a small-town doctor whose moral choices are tested when a deceased artist’s suddenly valuable paintings disrupt his family’s life.
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D.
Dr. Mumford
Dr. Mumford is the fictional psychologist protagonist of the 1999 comedy-drama film "Mumford," known for his unconventional therapeutic methods in a small town.
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E.
Dr. Kate Corrigan
Dr. Kate Corrigan is a prominent scholar of the occult and a senior field leader within the Hellboy universe’s Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
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fictional character ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Wonder ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Emma Donoghue ⓘ |
| characterType | supporting character ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalContext | Ireland ⓘ |
| createdBy | Emma Donoghue ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Wonder (novel) ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Doctor ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| occupation |
doctor
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physician ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | medically assessing Anna O’Donnell ⓘ |
| role | medical assessor of Anna O’Donnell ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre | novel ⓘ |
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: Dr. McBrearty Description of subject: Dr. McBrearty is a physician character in Emma Donoghue’s novel *The Wonder*, responsible for medically assessing the fasting girl Anna O’Donnell.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.