John McEnroe Sr.
E181067
John McEnroe Sr. was an American lawyer and the father of tennis champion John McEnroe.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John McEnroe | 1 |
| John McEnroe Sr. canonical | 1 |
| Kay McEnroe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1588975 — 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: John McEnroe Sr. Context triple: [Calvary Cemetery, Queens, hasBurial, John McEnroe Sr.]
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A.
Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors is a legendary American tennis player known for his fierce competitiveness, powerful baseline game, and record-setting longevity on the professional tour.
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B.
Bobby Riggs
Bobby Riggs was an American tennis champion and hustler best known for his 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" match against Billie Jean King.
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C.
Sean Hepburn Ferrer
Sean Hepburn Ferrer is a film producer, author, and humanitarian best known as the son and biographer of iconic actress Audrey Hepburn and for his work preserving her legacy.
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D.
Stan Smith
Stan Smith is the ultra-patriotic, often clueless CIA agent and main character of the animated television series "American Dad!"
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E.
Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson is a former American basketball player best known as a dominant center for Oregon State University in the late 1970s and early 1980s and later an NBA veteran.
- 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: John McEnroe Sr. Target entity description: John McEnroe Sr. was an American lawyer and the father of tennis champion John McEnroe.
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A.
Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors is a legendary American tennis player known for his fierce competitiveness, powerful baseline game, and record-setting longevity on the professional tour.
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B.
Bobby Riggs
Bobby Riggs was an American tennis champion and hustler best known for his 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" match against Billie Jean King.
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C.
Sean Hepburn Ferrer
Sean Hepburn Ferrer is a film producer, author, and humanitarian best known as the son and biographer of iconic actress Audrey Hepburn and for his work preserving her legacy.
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D.
Stan Smith
Stan Smith is the ultra-patriotic, often clueless CIA agent and main character of the animated television series "American Dad!"
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E.
Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson is a former American basketball player best known as a dominant center for Oregon State University in the late 1970s and early 1980s and later an NBA veteran.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
ⓘ
human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| child |
John McEnroe
ⓘ
John McEnroe ⓘ
surface form:
Mark McEnroe
Patrick McEnroe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1934 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Fordham University
ⓘ
Fordham University School of Law ⓘ |
| employer | Milbank LLP ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| fatherOf | John McEnroe ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | corporate law ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
John McEnroe
ⓘ
Kay McEnroe ⓘ John McEnroe ⓘ
surface form:
Mark McEnroe
Patrick McEnroe ⓘ |
| notableWork | partner at Milbank LLP ⓘ |
| occupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Manhasset
ⓘ
surface form:
Manhasset, New York
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| residence |
Douglaston–Little Neck
ⓘ
surface form:
Douglaston, Queens
New York City ⓘ |
| spouse |
John McEnroe Sr.
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Kay McEnroe
|
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: John McEnroe Sr. Description of subject: John McEnroe Sr. was an American lawyer and the father of tennis champion John McEnroe.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John McEnroe
this entity surface form:
Kay McEnroe