Mac McLeod
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Mac McLeod is a dedicated labor organizer and central figure in John Steinbeck’s novel "In Dubious Battle," known for his strategic leadership in a fruit pickers’ strike.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mac McLeod canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3860076 — 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: Mac McLeod Context triple: [In Dubious Battle, majorCharacter, Mac McLeod]
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A.
Angus McGill
Angus McGill was a British journalist and humorist known for his witty newspaper columns and light comic writing.
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B.
Mac Leod
Mac Leod is a surname of Scottish origin commonly associated with the historic Clan MacLeod and its descendants.
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C.
Charlie MacLean
Charlie MacLean is a television writer and producer best known for creating the crime drama series "City on a Hill."
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D.
Alasdair MacColla
Alasdair MacColla was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Gaelic mercenary leader and Royalist commander known for his role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, particularly in Ireland and Scotland.
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E.
Craig McRae
Craig McRae is an Australian rules football coach and former player best known for leading the Collingwood Football Club to an AFL premiership.
- 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: Mac McLeod Target entity description: Mac McLeod is a dedicated labor organizer and central figure in John Steinbeck’s novel "In Dubious Battle," known for his strategic leadership in a fruit pickers’ strike.
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A.
Angus McGill
Angus McGill was a British journalist and humorist known for his witty newspaper columns and light comic writing.
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B.
Mac Leod
Mac Leod is a surname of Scottish origin commonly associated with the historic Clan MacLeod and its descendants.
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C.
Charlie MacLean
Charlie MacLean is a television writer and producer best known for creating the crime drama series "City on a Hill."
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D.
Alasdair MacColla
Alasdair MacColla was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Gaelic mercenary leader and Royalist commander known for his role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, particularly in Ireland and Scotland.
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E.
Craig McRae
Craig McRae is an Australian rules football coach and former player best known for leading the Collingwood Football Club to an AFL premiership.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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labor organizer ⓘ |
| affiliation | the Party ⓘ |
| appearsIn | novel In Dubious Battle ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Torgas Valley
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fruit pickers ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
dedicated
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experienced organizer ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ strategic ⓘ |
| conflict | growers and their hired forces ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | John Steinbeck ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | In Dubious Battle ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
In Dubious Battle
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surface form:
In Dubious Battle (1936 novel)
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| ideology | communism ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
mentor to Jim Nolan
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organizer of the Torgas Valley strike ⓘ |
| notableFor | strategic leadership in a fruit pickers’ strike ⓘ |
| occupation | labor organizer ⓘ |
| role |
central figure in a fruit pickers’ strike
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strike leader ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
collective action
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labor struggle ⓘ political organizing ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalSetting | Great Depression ⓘ |
| workLocation | California fruit-growing region ⓘ |
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: Mac McLeod Description of subject: Mac McLeod is a dedicated labor organizer and central figure in John Steinbeck’s novel "In Dubious Battle," known for his strategic leadership in a fruit pickers’ strike.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
the Party (In Dubious Battle)