Sean Hayes
E471013
Sean Hayes is an American actor and comedian best known for his Emmy-winning role as Jack McFarland on the television sitcom "Will & Grace."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sean Hayes canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4748166 — 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: Sean Hayes Context triple: [Soul Men, starring, Sean Hayes]
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A.
Patrick J. Sullivan
Patrick J. Sullivan was a notable individual interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C., recognized for his significance to the local community or broader historical record.
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B.
Tim Healy
Tim Healy was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer, and writer who became the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.
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C.
Brett Cullen
Brett Cullen is an American actor known for his numerous film and television roles, including playing Thomas Wayne in the 2019 film "Joker."
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D.
Tim Mahoney
Tim Mahoney is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band 311.
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E.
Timothy Busfield
Timothy Busfield is an American actor and director best known for his roles in television series such as "thirtysomething," "The West Wing," and various film and stage productions.
- 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: Sean Hayes Target entity description: Sean Hayes is an American actor and comedian best known for his Emmy-winning role as Jack McFarland on the television sitcom "Will & Grace."
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A.
Patrick J. Sullivan
Patrick J. Sullivan was a notable individual interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C., recognized for his significance to the local community or broader historical record.
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B.
Tim Healy
Tim Healy was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer, and writer who became the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.
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C.
Brett Cullen
Brett Cullen is an American actor known for his numerous film and television roles, including playing Thomas Wayne in the 2019 film "Joker."
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D.
Tim Mahoney
Tim Mahoney is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band 311.
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E.
Timothy Busfield
Timothy Busfield is an American actor and director best known for his roles in television series such as "thirtysomething," "The West Wing," and various film and stage productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Will & Grace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole | Jack McFarland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Hazy Mills Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1970-06-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Illinois State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Sean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| name | Sean Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Golden Globe Award
ⓘ
Screen Actors Guild Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | Emmy-winning role as Jack McFarland on Will & Grace ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Jack McFarland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Will & Grace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television producer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cats & Dogs NERFINISHED ⓘ Monsters University NERFINISHED ⓘ Promises, Promises NERFINISHED ⓘ Sean Saves the World NERFINISHED ⓘ The Millers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Stooges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Will & Grace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spouse | Scott Icenogle 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: Sean Hayes Description of subject: Sean Hayes is an American actor and comedian best known for his Emmy-winning role as Jack McFarland on the television sitcom "Will & Grace."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.