Mary McDougall
E370223
Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary McDougall canonical | 2 |
| Anne McDougall | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3364583 — 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: Mary McDougall Context triple: [Alexander McDougall, parentOf, Mary McDougall]
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A.
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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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.
Barbara McDougall
Barbara McDougall is a Canadian politician and former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister who served prominently in federal government roles in the late 20th century.
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D.
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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E.
Margaret Durkan
Margaret Durkan is a notable individual recognized for bearing the Durkan surname, likely distinguished in a professional, public, or cultural field.
- 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: Mary McDougall Target entity description: Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
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A.
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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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.
Barbara McDougall
Barbara McDougall is a Canadian politician and former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister who served prominently in federal government roles in the late 20th century.
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D.
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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E.
Margaret Durkan
Margaret Durkan is a notable individual recognized for bearing the Durkan surname, likely distinguished in a professional, public, or cultural field.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| child | Mary McDougall ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
McDougall
ⓘ
linked to:
MacDougall
|
| father | Alexander McDougall ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
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: Mary McDougall Description of subject: Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.