Paul McGillion
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Paul McGillion is a Scottish-Canadian actor best known for his role as Dr. Carson Beckett on the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul McGillion canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7288395 — 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: Paul McGillion Context triple: [Stargate Atlantis, portrayedBy, Paul McGillion]
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A.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
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B.
Patrick Cargill
Patrick Cargill was a British actor best known for his comic roles on stage, film, and television, particularly in the sitcom "Father, Dear Father."
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C.
Pat O'Sullivan
Pat O'Sullivan is one of the central schoolgirl protagonists in Enid Blyton’s "The Twins at St. Clare’s," known for her lively personality and adventures at the St. Clare’s boarding school.
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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.
Micheál Richardson
Micheál Richardson is an Irish actor and the son of actors Liam Neeson and the late Natasha Richardson.
- 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: Paul McGillion Target entity description: Paul McGillion is a Scottish-Canadian actor best known for his role as Dr. Carson Beckett on the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis.
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A.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
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B.
Patrick Cargill
Patrick Cargill was a British actor best known for his comic roles on stage, film, and television, particularly in the sitcom "Father, Dear Father."
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C.
Pat O'Sullivan
Pat O'Sullivan is one of the central schoolgirl protagonists in Enid Blyton’s "The Twins at St. Clare’s," known for her lively personality and adventures at the St. Clare’s boarding school.
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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.
Micheál Richardson
Micheál Richardson is an Irish actor and the son of actors Liam Neeson and the late Natasha Richardson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
A Dog's Breakfast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Once Upon a Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanctuary NERFINISHED ⓘ Smallville NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek (2009 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Stargate Atlantis NERFINISHED ⓘ Stargate SG-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Stargate: The Ark of Truth NERFINISHED ⓘ Supernatural NERFINISHED ⓘ The X-Files NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Paul McGillion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Dr. Carson Beckett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1969-01-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Brock University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Stargate Atlantis production ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Scottish ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
physical education
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction television ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Dr. Carson Beckett on Stargate Atlantis ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| name | Paul McGillion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish-Canadian ⓘ |
| notableRole | Dr. Carson Beckett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Stargate Atlantis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 1 ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Courtney Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taughtAt | Vancouver Film School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
David Hewlett
NERFINISHED
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Jason Momoa NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Flanigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Rachel Luttrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Torri Higginson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–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: Paul McGillion Description of subject: Paul McGillion is a Scottish-Canadian actor best known for his role as Dr. Carson Beckett on the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.