Gordon McDonell
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Gordon McDonell was a writer best known for providing the original story that Alfred Hitchcock adapted into the classic 1943 thriller film "Shadow of a Doubt."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gordon McDonell canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4446830 — 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: Gordon McDonell Context triple: [Shadow of a Doubt, storyBy, Gordon McDonell]
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A.
Robert McMillan
Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
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B.
Gordon Gill
Gordon Gill is a prominent American architect known for his work on sustainable, high-performance skyscrapers and as a founding partner of the firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.
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C.
Bruce McCulloch
Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
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D.
Gordon Kennedy
Gordon Kennedy is a Scottish actor and comedian best known for his work on the sketch show "Absolutely" and various British television dramas and comedies.
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E.
Noel Bailie
Noel Bailie is a Northern Irish former defender best known for his record-breaking long service and appearances for Linfield FC.
- 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: Gordon McDonell Target entity description: Gordon McDonell was a writer best known for providing the original story that Alfred Hitchcock adapted into the classic 1943 thriller film "Shadow of a Doubt."
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A.
Robert McMillan
Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
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B.
Gordon Gill
Gordon Gill is a prominent American architect known for his work on sustainable, high-performance skyscrapers and as a founding partner of the firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.
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C.
Bruce McCulloch
Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
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D.
Gordon Kennedy
Gordon Kennedy is a Scottish actor and comedian best known for his work on the sketch show "Absolutely" and various British television dramas and comedies.
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E.
Noel Bailie
Noel Bailie is a Northern Irish former defender best known for his record-breaking long service and appearances for Linfield FC.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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person ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| basedOn | original story by Gordon McDonell ⓘ |
| director | Alfred Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | thriller film ⓘ |
| notability | provided the original story adapted by Alfred Hitchcock for Shadow of a Doubt ⓘ |
| notableWork | Shadow of a Doubt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | writer ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| workAdaptedBy | Alfred Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote | original story for Shadow of a Doubt ⓘ |
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: Gordon McDonell Description of subject: Gordon McDonell was a writer best known for providing the original story that Alfred Hitchcock adapted into the classic 1943 thriller film "Shadow of a Doubt."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Rooster Cogburn (film)