Pat McCormick
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Pat McCormick was an American comedian and television writer known for his work on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and appearances in films and TV comedies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pat McCormick canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3621961 — 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: Pat McCormick Context triple: [A Wedding, hasCastMember, Pat McCormick]
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A.
Pat McFadden
Pat McFadden is a British Labour politician who has served as a Member of Parliament and held several senior government and shadow cabinet roles.
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B.
Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative lighting and camera techniques in early Hollywood cinema, including his Academy Award-winning work on "Shanghai Express."
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C.
Ann McKean
Ann McKean was a daughter of Thomas McKean, a prominent American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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D.
Gil Robbins
Gil Robbins was an American folk musician and actor, best known as a member of the Highwaymen and for his work in the 1960s folk scene.
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E.
Kim Keever
Kim Keever is an American artist and photographer known for his large-scale, otherworldly landscape images created by photographing paint and materials suspended in water.
- 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: Pat McCormick Target entity description: Pat McCormick was an American comedian and television writer known for his work on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and appearances in films and TV comedies.
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A.
Pat McFadden
Pat McFadden is a British Labour politician who has served as a Member of Parliament and held several senior government and shadow cabinet roles.
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B.
Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative lighting and camera techniques in early Hollywood cinema, including his Academy Award-winning work on "Shanghai Express."
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C.
Ann McKean
Ann McKean was a daughter of Thomas McKean, a prominent American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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D.
Gil Robbins
Gil Robbins was an American folk musician and actor, best known as a member of the Highwaymen and for his work in the 1960s folk scene.
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E.
Kim Keever
Kim Keever is an American artist and photographer known for his large-scale, otherworldly landscape images created by photographing paint and materials suspended in water.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
The Tonight Show
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surface form:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
|
| fieldOfWork |
comedy writing
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film ⓘ stand-up comedy ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Pat ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Pat McCormick self-link ⓘ |
| notableRole | appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Tonight Show
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surface form:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
film comedies ⓘ television comedies ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Pat McCormick Description of subject: Pat McCormick was an American comedian and television writer known for his work on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and appearances in films and TV comedies.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.