Frances Macdonald
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Frances Macdonald was a prominent Scottish artist and designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her role in the Glasgow School and her distinctive contribution to the development of Art Nouveau.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frances Macdonald canonical | 9 |
| Frances Macdonald was a painter and designer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3015744 — 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: Frances Macdonald Context triple: [Glasgow Style, associatedWith, Frances Macdonald]
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A.
Mary Mackilwean
Mary Mackilwean was the wife of Richard Caswell, the first governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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B.
Ellin Mackay
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
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C.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
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D.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
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E.
Margaret MacDonald
Margaret MacDonald was a British socialist activist and feminist, known for her work in social reform and as the wife of future Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
- 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: Frances Macdonald Target entity description: Frances Macdonald was a prominent Scottish artist and designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her role in the Glasgow School and her distinctive contribution to the development of Art Nouveau.
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A.
Mary Mackilwean
Mary Mackilwean was the wife of Richard Caswell, the first governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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B.
Ellin Mackay
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
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C.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
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D.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
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E.
Margaret MacDonald
Margaret MacDonald was a British socialist activist and feminist, known for her work in social reform and as the wife of future Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Frances Macdonald Description of subject: Frances Macdonald was a prominent Scottish artist and designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her role in the Glasgow School and her distinctive contribution to the development of Art Nouveau.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Frances Macdonald was a painter and designer