Gerald McRaney
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Gerald McRaney is an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as "Simon & Simon," "Major Dad," and "This Is Us."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gerald McRaney canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7561380 — 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: Gerald McRaney Context triple: [The A-Team (2010 film), castMember, Gerald McRaney]
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A.
Donald Faison
Donald Faison is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Dr. Christopher Turk on the television series "Scrubs."
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B.
Clarke Peters
Clarke Peters is an American actor, writer, and director best known for his roles in acclaimed television series such as The Wire and Treme, as well as numerous film and stage performances.
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C.
Joel Murray
Joel Murray is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, as well as for his voice work in animated projects.
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D.
George Sowards
George Sowards is an actor known for his role in the film "Shotgun."
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E.
James Robert Plemons
James Robert Plemons is the son of American actors Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons.
- 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: Gerald McRaney Target entity description: Gerald McRaney is an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as "Simon & Simon," "Major Dad," and "This Is Us."
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A.
Donald Faison
Donald Faison is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Dr. Christopher Turk on the television series "Scrubs."
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B.
Clarke Peters
Clarke Peters is an American actor, writer, and director best known for his roles in acclaimed television series such as The Wire and Treme, as well as numerous film and stage performances.
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C.
Joel Murray
Joel Murray is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, as well as for his voice work in animated projects.
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D.
George Sowards
George Sowards is an actor known for his role in the film "Shotgun."
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E.
James Robert Plemons
James Robert Plemons is the son of American actors Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Deadwood
NERFINISHED
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Filthy Rich NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Cards NERFINISHED ⓘ Jericho NERFINISHED ⓘ Longmire NERFINISHED ⓘ Major Dad NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike & Molly NERFINISHED ⓘ Promised Land NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon & Simon NERFINISHED ⓘ This Is Us NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedForWork | This Is Us NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-08-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emmyAwardYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| familyName | McRaney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Gerald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Gerald McRaney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Deadwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Filthy Rich NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Cards NERFINISHED ⓘ Jericho NERFINISHED ⓘ Longmire NERFINISHED ⓘ Major Dad NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike & Molly NERFINISHED ⓘ Promised Land NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon & Simon NERFINISHED ⓘ This Is Us NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
television director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Collins, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCharacter |
Dr. Nathan Katowski
NERFINISHED
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Major John D. MacGillis NERFINISHED ⓘ Rick Simon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | United States Marine Corps Reserve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Beverly Root
NERFINISHED
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Delta Burke NERFINISHED ⓘ Pat Moran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1969–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: Gerald McRaney Description of subject: Gerald McRaney is an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as "Simon & Simon," "Major Dad," and "This Is Us."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The A-Team (2010 film)