Mike McGinn
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Mike McGinn is an American politician and former mayor of Seattle, Washington, known for his advocacy on environmental and transportation issues.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike McGinn canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2541626 — 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: Mike McGinn Context triple: [Ed Murray, predecessor, Mike McGinn]
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A.
Ed Murray
Ed Murray is an American politician who served as the 53rd mayor of Seattle and previously spent many years in the Washington State Legislature.
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B.
Howard Cunningham
Howard Cunningham is the affable, old-fashioned Milwaukee hardware store owner and father figure on the classic American sitcom "Happy Days."
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C.
Michael Baca
Michael Baca is an American presidential elector known for his role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Colorado Department of State v. Baca, which addressed whether states can penalize or replace “faithless electors” in the Electoral College.
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D.
Bob Ferguson
Bob Ferguson was an American country music record producer known for his influential work with major artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Kilpatrick is a former mayor of Detroit who became widely known for his corruption scandal, criminal convictions, and subsequent imprisonment.
- 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: Mike McGinn Target entity description: Mike McGinn is an American politician and former mayor of Seattle, Washington, known for his advocacy on environmental and transportation issues.
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A.
Ed Murray
Ed Murray is an American politician who served as the 53rd mayor of Seattle and previously spent many years in the Washington State Legislature.
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B.
Howard Cunningham
Howard Cunningham is the affable, old-fashioned Milwaukee hardware store owner and father figure on the classic American sitcom "Happy Days."
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C.
Michael Baca
Michael Baca is an American presidential elector known for his role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Colorado Department of State v. Baca, which addressed whether states can penalize or replace “faithless electors” in the Electoral College.
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D.
Bob Ferguson
Bob Ferguson was an American country music record producer known for his influential work with major artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Kilpatrick is a former mayor of Detroit who became widely known for his corruption scandal, criminal convictions, and subsequent imprisonment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mayor ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | McGinn ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
environmental policy
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local politics ⓘ transportation policy ⓘ urban policy ⓘ |
| givenName |
Michael
ⓘ
surface form:
Mike
|
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Mike McGinn self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
environmental advocacy
ⓘ
opposition to certain highway expansion projects in Seattle ⓘ support for climate change mitigation policies at the city level ⓘ transportation policy advocacy ⓘ |
| notableRole | American mayor known for environmental and transportation advocacy ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 2013-12-31 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 2010-01-01 ⓘ |
| politicalFocus |
bicycle infrastructure
ⓘ
environmental issues ⓘ pedestrian safety ⓘ public transit ⓘ urban sustainability ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Mayor of Seattle
ⓘ
Mayor of Seattle, Washington ⓘ |
| residence |
Seattle, Washington, United States
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surface form:
Seattle, Washington
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| workLocation |
Seattle, Washington, United States
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surface form:
Seattle, Washington
|
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: Mike McGinn Description of subject: Mike McGinn is an American politician and former mayor of Seattle, Washington, known for his advocacy on environmental and transportation issues.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.