Macready
E422723
British Army general
British Army officer
English-language surname
actor
aeronautical engineer
business executive
family
gymnast
person
surname
theatre manager
Macready is an English surname most notably associated with British Army general Sir Nevil Macready and his family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macready canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4228433 — 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: Macready Context triple: [Nevil Macready, familyName, Macready]
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A.
Elisha Kent Kane
Elisha Kent Kane was a 19th-century American Arctic explorer and naval surgeon best known for leading expeditions in search of the lost Franklin expedition.
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B.
Captain W. A. Ross
Captain W. A. Ross was a British colonial official known for inaugurating Mapo Hall, a prominent historic civic building in Ibadan, Nigeria.
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C.
Maturin
Maturin is the surname of Charles Maturin, an Irish Protestant clergyman and celebrated early 19th-century Gothic novelist and playwright best known for works like "Melmoth the Wanderer."
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D.
James Crabe
James Crabe was an American cinematographer best known for his work on influential films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the original Rocky.
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E.
Robert McClure
Robert McClure was a 19th-century Irish explorer and Royal Navy officer best known for leading the expedition that first traversed the Northwest Passage.
- 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: Macready Target entity description: Macready is an English surname most notably associated with British Army general Sir Nevil Macready and his family.
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A.
Elisha Kent Kane
Elisha Kent Kane was a 19th-century American Arctic explorer and naval surgeon best known for leading expeditions in search of the lost Franklin expedition.
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B.
Captain W. A. Ross
Captain W. A. Ross was a British colonial official known for inaugurating Mapo Hall, a prominent historic civic building in Ibadan, Nigeria.
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C.
Maturin
Maturin is the surname of Charles Maturin, an Irish Protestant clergyman and celebrated early 19th-century Gothic novelist and playwright best known for works like "Melmoth the Wanderer."
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D.
James Crabe
James Crabe was an American cinematographer best known for his work on influential films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the original Rocky.
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E.
Robert McClure
Robert McClure was a 19th-century Irish explorer and Royal Navy officer best known for leading the expedition that first traversed the Northwest Passage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army general
ⓘ
British Army officer ⓘ British Army officer ⓘ English-language surname ⓘ actor ⓘ aeronautical engineer ⓘ business executive ⓘ family ⓘ gymnast ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ theatre manager ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| derivedFrom | personal name of uncertain origin ⓘ |
| familyName |
MacCready
ⓘ
Macready ⓘ |
| givenName |
Nevil
ⓘ
William Charles ⓘ |
| hasFamilyNameVariant | Macready family ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Edward Nevil Macready
ⓘ
John Macready ⓘ Nevil Macready, 2nd Baronet ⓘ Paul MacCready ⓘ Sir Nevil Macready ⓘ
linked to:
Nevil Macready
William Charles Macready ⓘ |
| hasNotableFamily | Macready family ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
MacCready
ⓘ
McCready ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| nameCategory | English-language surnames ⓘ |
| typicalUsageRegion | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
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: Macready Description of subject: Macready is an English surname most notably associated with British Army general Sir Nevil Macready and his family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Macready