Seamus McFly
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Seamus McFly is an ancestor of George McFly who appears in the Back to the Future film series as a 19th-century member of the McFly family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seamus McFly canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7977570 — 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: Seamus McFly Context triple: [George McFly, relative, Seamus McFly]
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A.
Mickey McFinnigan
Mickey McFinnigan is an Irish pub owner and heavy-drinking character in the animated series "Family Guy," known for being revealed as Peter Griffin’s biological father.
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B.
Robert Shayne
Robert Shayne was an American character actor best known for playing Inspector Henderson on the 1950s television series "Adventures of Superman."
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C.
George McFly
George McFly is a timid yet ultimately courageous character from the "Back to the Future" film series, known as Marty McFly’s father whose past is crucially altered through time travel.
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D.
Jack Moran
Jack Moran is a fictional character appearing in the film "My Blue Heaven."
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E.
Biff Tannen
Biff Tannen is the main bully and recurring antagonist in the "Back to the Future" film series, known for tormenting George and Marty McFly across multiple timelines.
- 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: Seamus McFly Target entity description: Seamus McFly is an ancestor of George McFly who appears in the Back to the Future film series as a 19th-century member of the McFly family.
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A.
Mickey McFinnigan
Mickey McFinnigan is an Irish pub owner and heavy-drinking character in the animated series "Family Guy," known for being revealed as Peter Griffin’s biological father.
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B.
Robert Shayne
Robert Shayne was an American character actor best known for playing Inspector Henderson on the 1950s television series "Adventures of Superman."
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C.
George McFly
George McFly is a timid yet ultimately courageous character from the "Back to the Future" film series, known as Marty McFly’s father whose past is crucially altered through time travel.
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D.
Jack Moran
Jack Moran is a fictional character appearing in the film "My Blue Heaven."
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E.
Biff Tannen
Biff Tannen is the main bully and recurring antagonist in the "Back to the Future" film series, known for tormenting George and Marty McFly across multiple timelines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
George McFly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marty McFly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Back to the Future Part III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Bob Gale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Zemeckis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | McFly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalDateOfBirth | 19th century ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Back to the Future universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Back to the Future Part III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction film character ⓘ |
| hairColor | red ⓘ |
| hasAncestor | Irish McFly family line ⓘ |
| hasChild | William McFly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| occupation | farmer ⓘ |
| partOf | Back to the Future franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael J. Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
George McFly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maggie McFly NERFINISHED ⓘ Marty McFly NERFINISHED ⓘ William McFly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Hill Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Maggie McFly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Seamus McFly Description of subject: Seamus McFly is an ancestor of George McFly who appears in the Back to the Future film series as a 19th-century member of the McFly family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.