Kroc
E1007549
Major League Baseball team
businessperson
entrepreneur
family name
fast food restaurant chain
human
philanthropist
restaurateur
surname
Kroc is a surname most famously associated with Ray Kroc, the American businessman who built McDonald's into a global fast-food empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kroc canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12874478 — 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: Kroc Context triple: [Ray Kroc, familyName, Kroc]
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A.
White Castle
White Castle is a medieval stone fortress in Monmouthshire, Wales, notable for its well-preserved defensive earthworks and role in the border defenses of the Welsh Marches.
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B.
White Castle
White Castle is a pioneering American fast-food hamburger chain famous for its small square "slider" burgers and late-night cult following.
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C.
Brinker
Brinker is the surname of Nancy Goodman Brinker, the American businesswoman and philanthropist who founded the Susan G. Komen breast cancer organization.
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D.
Wahlburgers
Wahlburgers is an American casual-dining burger restaurant and bar chain co-owned by the Wahlberg family and featured in a reality TV series of the same name.
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E.
Hardee
Hardee is a surname most notably associated with William J. Hardee, a 19th-century United States Army officer and Confederate general during the American Civil War.
- 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: Kroc Target entity description: Kroc is a surname most famously associated with Ray Kroc, the American businessman who built McDonald's into a global fast-food empire.
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A.
White Castle
White Castle is a medieval stone fortress in Monmouthshire, Wales, notable for its well-preserved defensive earthworks and role in the border defenses of the Welsh Marches.
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B.
White Castle
White Castle is a pioneering American fast-food hamburger chain famous for its small square "slider" burgers and late-night cult following.
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C.
Brinker
Brinker is the surname of Nancy Goodman Brinker, the American businesswoman and philanthropist who founded the Susan G. Komen breast cancer organization.
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D.
Wahlburgers
Wahlburgers is an American casual-dining burger restaurant and bar chain co-owned by the Wahlberg family and featured in a reality TV series of the same name.
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E.
Hardee
Hardee is a surname most notably associated with William J. Hardee, a 19th-century United States Army officer and Confederate general during the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball team
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ family name ⓘ fast food restaurant chain ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ restaurateur ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| child | Marilyn Kroc Barg ⓘ |
| coDeveloper | Ray Kroc ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1902-10-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1984-01-14 ⓘ |
| employer |
McDonald's Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
McDonald’s
|
| familyName |
Kroc
ⓘ
Kroc ⓘ Kroc ⓘ |
| genre | fast food industry ⓘ |
| givenName | Raymond ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Joan Kroc
ⓘ
linked to:
Joan B. Kroc
Marilyn Kroc Barg ⓘ Ray Kroc ⓘ |
| knownFor |
expanding McDonald's into a global fast-food chain
ⓘ
major philanthropic donations in the United States ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Czech language
ⓘ
Slavic languages ⓘ |
| notableDonation |
large bequest to National Public Radio
ⓘ
large bequest to the Salvation Army ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of the McDonald's franchise system ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
franchise agent ⓘ |
| owner | Ray Kroc ⓘ |
| parent | Ray Kroc ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Oak Park, Illinois
|
| placeOfDeath | San Diego, California, United States ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Keaton ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of McDonald's
ⓘ
owner of San Diego Padres ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Joan Kroc
ⓘ
linked to:
Joan B. Kroc
Ray Kroc ⓘ |
| subjectOf | film "The Founder" ⓘ |
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: Kroc Description of subject: Kroc is a surname most famously associated with Ray Kroc, the American businessman who built McDonald's into a global fast-food empire.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.