McQ
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McQ is a 1974 American crime action film starring John Wayne as a tough Seattle police detective pursuing a drug ring.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McQ canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10314195 — 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: McQ Context triple: [Roger E. Mosley, appearedIn, McQ]
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A.
Mighty Quinn
"Mighty Quinn" is a popular 1968 rock song written by Bob Dylan and best known in its hit version performed by Manfred Mann.
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B.
Macqueen
Macqueen is a surname of Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as sports, arts, and public life.
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C.
McMath
McMath is the birth surname of American actress, singer, and dancer Ginger Rogers.
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D.
The Mighty Quinn
The Mighty Quinn is a 1989 crime-comedy film starring Denzel Washington as a charismatic Caribbean police chief investigating a murder on his small island.
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E.
C.Q.
C.Q. is a post-nominal abbreviation used to denote individuals who have been appointed as Knights of the National Order of Quebec.
- 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: McQ Target entity description: McQ is a 1974 American crime action film starring John Wayne as a tough Seattle police detective pursuing a drug ring.
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A.
Mighty Quinn
"Mighty Quinn" is a popular 1968 rock song written by Bob Dylan and best known in its hit version performed by Manfred Mann.
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B.
Macqueen
Macqueen is a surname of Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as sports, arts, and public life.
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C.
McMath
McMath is the birth surname of American actress, singer, and dancer Ginger Rogers.
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D.
The Mighty Quinn
The Mighty Quinn is a 1989 crime-comedy film starring Denzel Washington as a charismatic Caribbean police chief investigating a murder on his small island.
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E.
C.Q.
C.Q. is a post-nominal abbreviation used to denote individuals who have been appointed as Knights of the National Order of Quebec.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
action film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Harry Stradling Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | John Sturges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy |
Warner Bros. Pictures
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
|
| distributedInFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| editedBy | William Ziegler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Pacific Northwest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Dirty Harry-style urban crime films ⓘ |
| genre |
action
ⓘ
crime ⓘ |
| hasPosterTagline | “Wayne on the warpath in the city of sin.” ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
drug trafficking
ⓘ
police corruption ⓘ |
| hasVehicleSetPiece | car chases on the beach ⓘ |
| hasWeaponFocus | MAC-10 submachine gun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacterEmployer | Seattle Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation | police detective ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Lon McQ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Elmer Bernstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Seattle police detective pursuing a drug ring ⓘ |
| notableFor | John Wayne playing a contemporary urban cop ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Wayne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
John Wayne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael A. Wayne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Batjac Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rating | PG ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1974-02-06 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| runningTime | 111 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Lawrence Roman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| soundMix | Mono NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Al Lettieri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clu Gulager NERFINISHED ⓘ Colleen Dewhurst NERFINISHED ⓘ David Huddleston NERFINISHED ⓘ Diana Muldaur NERFINISHED ⓘ Eddie Albert NERFINISHED ⓘ John Wayne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 1970s ⓘ |
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: McQ Description of subject: McQ is a 1974 American crime action film starring John Wayne as a tough Seattle police detective pursuing a drug ring.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.