Craig McDermott
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Craig McDermott is a former Australian fast bowler renowned for leading his country's attack in the late 1980s and early 1990s and playing a key role in their World Cup success.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Craig McDermott canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5525777 — 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)
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Target entity: Craig McDermott Context triple: [1987 Cricket World Cup, topWicketTaker, Craig McDermott]
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A.
Mark McDermott
Mark McDermott is a person notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the McDermott surname.
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B.
Scott McDermott
Scott McDermott is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the McDermott surname.
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C.
Chris McDermott
Chris McDermott is a notable individual whose surname, McDermott, is recognized in association with his name.
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D.
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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E.
David McDermott
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.
- 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: Craig McDermott Target entity description: Craig McDermott is a former Australian fast bowler renowned for leading his country's attack in the late 1980s and early 1990s and playing a key role in their World Cup success.
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A.
Mark McDermott
Mark McDermott is a person notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the McDermott surname.
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B.
Scott McDermott
Scott McDermott is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the McDermott surname.
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C.
Chris McDermott
Chris McDermott is a notable individual whose surname, McDermott, is recognized in association with his name.
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D.
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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E.
David McDermott
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cricketer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| achievement | leading wicket-taker in the 1987 Cricket World Cup ⓘ |
| battingStyle | right-handed bat ⓘ |
| bowlingStrength |
ability to generate pace and bounce
ⓘ
outswing ⓘ |
| bowlingStyle | right-arm fast ⓘ |
| bowlingType | pace bowling ⓘ |
| coachedTeam | Australia national cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competition | 1987 Cricket World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-04-14 ⓘ |
| era |
early 1990s
ⓘ
late 1980s ⓘ |
| family |
father of Alister McDermott
ⓘ
father of Ben McDermott ⓘ |
| format |
One Day International cricket
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Test cricket ⓘ |
| fullName | Craig John McDermott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
key role in Australia’s 1987 Cricket World Cup victory
ⓘ
leading Australia’s fast-bowling attack in the late 1980s and early 1990s ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian ⓘ |
| notableSeries | Ashes series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | cricket coach ⓘ |
| odiDebutAgainst | West Indies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| odiDebutFor | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postRetirementRole | bowling coach ⓘ |
| role | bowler ⓘ |
| sport | cricket ⓘ |
| status | retired cricketer ⓘ |
| team |
Australia national cricket team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Queensland cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| testDebutAgainst | West Indies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| testDebutFor | Australia 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: Craig McDermott Description of subject: Craig McDermott is a former Australian fast bowler renowned for leading his country's attack in the late 1980s and early 1990s and playing a key role in their World Cup success.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.