Sean McGinnes

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Sean McGinnes is a fictional character from the television series "Hell on Wheels," depicted as an ambitious Irish immigrant involved in the business and political intrigues surrounding the construction of the transcontinental railroad.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Sean McGinnes canonical 1

Statements (26)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
television character
appearsIn Hell on Wheels NERFINISHED
associatedWith Union Pacific Railroad NERFINISHED
transcontinental railroad NERFINISHED
characterOrigin Irish immigrant background
countryOfOriginWork United States NERFINISHED
ethnicity Irish
familyName McGinnes NERFINISHED
fictionalUniverse Hell on Wheels universe NERFINISHED
genre Western drama
givenName Sean NERFINISHED
involvedIn business intrigues
political intrigues
languageOfWork English
medium television
narrativeRole supporting character
nationality Irish
notableFor ambitious Irish immigrant involved in railroad-era business and politics
occupation businessman
relative Mickey McGinnes NERFINISHED
settingContext construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad
settingPeriod post–American Civil War era
sibling Mickey McGinnes NERFINISHED
workLocation Cheyenne NERFINISHED
Union Pacific Railroad camp

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: Sean McGinnes
Description of subject: Sean McGinnes is a fictional character from the television series "Hell on Wheels," depicted as an ambitious Irish immigrant involved in the business and political intrigues surrounding the construction of the transcontinental railroad.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ben Esler portrayed Sean McGinnes