Robert McDermott
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Robert McDermott is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals and public figures in various fields.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert McDermott canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4069930 — 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: Robert McDermott Context triple: [McDermott, hasNotableBearer, Robert McDermott]
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A.
Robert J. McManus
Robert J. McManus is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Worcester in Massachusetts.
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B.
James McDermott
James McDermott is a character in Margaret Atwood’s novel *Alias Grace*, depicted as a fellow servant whose murder becomes central to the story’s infamous crime.
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C.
Robert Emmett McDonough
Robert Emmett McDonough was an American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Georgetown University to name its McDonough School of Business in his honor.
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D.
John McDonough
John McDonough was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl IV.
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E.
Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
- 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: Robert McDermott Target entity description: Robert McDermott is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals and public figures in various fields.
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A.
Robert J. McManus
Robert J. McManus is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Worcester in Massachusetts.
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B.
James McDermott
James McDermott is a character in Margaret Atwood’s novel *Alias Grace*, depicted as a fellow servant whose murder becomes central to the story’s infamous crime.
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C.
Robert Emmett McDonough
Robert Emmett McDonough was an American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Georgetown University to name its McDonough School of Business in his honor.
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D.
John McDonough
John McDonough was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl IV.
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E.
Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name and surname combination
ⓘ
human name ⓘ |
| componentGivenNameOrigin |
Robert is of Germanic origin
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linked to:
Germanic name Hrodebert
|
| componentSurnameOrigin |
McDermott is of Irish origin
ⓘ
linked to:
Callaghan is of Irish origin
|
| hasCulturalAssociation | Anglophone naming traditions ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | McDermott ⓘ |
| hasGenderAssociation | typically masculine ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasNameComponent |
McDermott
ⓘ
Robert ⓘ |
| hasNameType | full name ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Bob McDermott
ⓘ
Bobby McDermott ⓘ Rob McDermott ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nameStructure | [given name] [family name] ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedAs | personal name ⓘ |
| usedBy | multiple individuals ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
academic settings
ⓘ
professional settings ⓘ public life ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
English-speaking countries
ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Robert McDermott Description of subject: Robert McDermott is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals and public figures in various fields.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.