James McDermott
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James McDermott is a character in Margaret Atwood’s novel *Alias Grace*, depicted as a fellow servant whose murder becomes central to the story’s infamous crime.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James McDermott canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T912768 — 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: James McDermott Context triple: [Alias Grace, hasCharacter, James McDermott]
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A.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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B.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
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C.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
- 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: James McDermott Target entity description: James McDermott is a character in Margaret Atwood’s novel *Alias Grace*, depicted as a fellow servant whose murder becomes central to the story’s infamous crime.
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A.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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B.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
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C.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedAsCharacterIn |
Alias Grace
ⓘ
surface form:
Alias Grace (2017 television miniseries)
|
| appearsIn | Alias Grace ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Grace Marks
ⓘ
Nancy Montgomery ⓘ |
| basedOn | historical figure James McDermott involved in the 1843 Kinnear murders ⓘ |
| centralEvent |
murder of Nancy Montgomery
ⓘ
murder of Thomas Kinnear ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | Canada ⓘ |
| creator | Margaret Atwood ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Alias Grace ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Alias Grace
ⓘ
surface form:
Alias Grace (1996 novel)
|
| genreContext | historical fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
co-accused in murder
ⓘ
supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | servant ⓘ |
| partOf | Alias Grace characters ⓘ |
| portrayedInTelevisionBy | Kerr Logan ⓘ |
| storyFunction | catalyst for the novel’s crime ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
class and servitude
ⓘ
crime and punishment ⓘ memory and truth ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalSetting | 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation | Thomas Kinnear’s household ⓘ |
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: James McDermott Description of subject: James McDermott is a character in Margaret Atwood’s novel *Alias Grace*, depicted as a fellow servant whose murder becomes central to the story’s infamous crime.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.