David McDermott
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David McDermott is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the McDermott surname rather than widespread public recognition in a specific field.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David McDermott canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4069937 — 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: David McDermott Context triple: [McDermott, hasNotableBearer, David McDermott]
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A.
Stephen McDermott
Stephen McDermott is an Irish Gaelic footballer known for playing at inter-county level for Donegal.
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B.
Brian McDermott
Brian McDermott is a former professional rugby league player and highly successful English rugby league coach, best known for his trophy-laden tenure with the Leeds Rhinos.
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C.
Mark McDermott
Mark McDermott is a person notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the McDermott surname.
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D.
Paul McDermott
Paul McDermott is an Australian comedian, writer, television host, and singer best known for his work with the comedy group The Doug Anthony All Stars and as a longtime host on the satirical news quiz show "Good News Week."
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E.
Ed McCauley
Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
- 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: David McDermott Target entity description: David McDermott is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the McDermott surname rather than widespread public recognition in a specific field.
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A.
Stephen McDermott
Stephen McDermott is an Irish Gaelic footballer known for playing at inter-county level for Donegal.
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B.
Brian McDermott
Brian McDermott is a former professional rugby league player and highly successful English rugby league coach, best known for his trophy-laden tenure with the Leeds Rhinos.
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C.
Mark McDermott
Mark McDermott is a person notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the McDermott surname.
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D.
Paul McDermott
Paul McDermott is an Australian comedian, writer, television host, and singer best known for his work with the comedy group The Doug Anthony All Stars and as a longtime host on the satirical news quiz show "Good News Week."
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E.
Ed McCauley
Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (2)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| familyName | McDermott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: David McDermott Description of subject: David McDermott is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the McDermott surname rather than widespread public recognition in a specific field.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.