David Hewlett
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David Hewlett is a British-Canadian actor best known for his role as the brilliant but neurotic scientist Dr. Rodney McKay in the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Hewlett canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7288392 — 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 Hewlett Context triple: [Stargate Atlantis, portrayedBy, David Hewlett]
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A.
Robert MacNeil
Robert MacNeil is a Canadian-American journalist and author best known for co-creating and co-anchoring the long-running public television news program that became PBS NewsHour.
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B.
Ray Henderson
Ray Henderson was a prominent American songwriter and composer of popular music and Broadway tunes during the 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
Tony Smith
Tony Smith was an influential American sculptor and architect best known for his large-scale minimalist geometric sculptures.
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D.
Tony Smith
Tony Smith is a highly regarded rugby league coach best known for his successful tenure in English club rugby, including leading the Leeds Rhinos to major titles.
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E.
Neil Johnston
Neil Johnston was a dominant 1950s NBA center and Hall of Famer known for leading the league in scoring with the Philadelphia Warriors.
- 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 Hewlett Target entity description: David Hewlett is a British-Canadian actor best known for his role as the brilliant but neurotic scientist Dr. Rodney McKay in the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis.
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A.
Robert MacNeil
Robert MacNeil is a Canadian-American journalist and author best known for co-creating and co-anchoring the long-running public television news program that became PBS NewsHour.
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B.
Ray Henderson
Ray Henderson was a prominent American songwriter and composer of popular music and Broadway tunes during the 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
Tony Smith
Tony Smith was an influential American sculptor and architect best known for his large-scale minimalist geometric sculptures.
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D.
Tony Smith
Tony Smith is a highly regarded rugby league coach best known for his successful tenure in English club rugby, including leading the Leeds Rhinos to major titles.
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E.
Neil Johnston
Neil Johnston was a dominant 1950s NBA center and Hall of Famer known for leading the league in scoring with the Philadelphia Warriors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Cube
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues NERFINISHED ⓘ Rise of the Planet of the Apes NERFINISHED ⓘ Splice NERFINISHED ⓘ Stargate Atlantis NERFINISHED ⓘ Stargate SG-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Stargate Universe NERFINISHED ⓘ Stargate: Continuum NERFINISHED ⓘ Stargate: The Ark of Truth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Outer Limits NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shape of Water NERFINISHED ⓘ Traders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | David Ian Hewlett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Dr. Rodney McKay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | 1 son ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1968-04-18 ⓘ |
| directed |
A Dog's Breakfast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Debug NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Dr. Rodney McKay in Stargate Atlantis ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | David Hewlett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British-Canadian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Dog's Breakfast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cube NERFINISHED ⓘ Debug NERFINISHED ⓘ Stargate Atlantis NERFINISHED ⓘ Stargate SG-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Stargate Universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Redhill, Surrey, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Kate Hewlett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Canada ⓘ |
| sibling | Kate Hewlett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Jane Loughman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
A Dog's Breakfast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Debug NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980s–present ⓘ |
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 Hewlett Description of subject: David Hewlett is a British-Canadian actor best known for his role as the brilliant but neurotic scientist Dr. Rodney McKay in the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Splice