David McMillan
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David McMillan is the son of Nobel Prize–winning American physicist Edwin McMillan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David McMillan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4707742 — 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: David McMillan Context triple: [Edwin McMillan, hasChild, David McMillan]
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A.
Robert McMillan
Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
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B.
Michael McKinnell
Michael McKinnell was a British-born American architect best known as the co-designer of Boston City Hall and a leading figure in late-20th-century civic architecture.
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C.
Jim McKelvey
Jim McKelvey is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the financial technology company Square (now Block, Inc.), as well as a philanthropist and author.
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D.
Alan McMichael
Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
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E.
Bruce McCleery
Bruce McCleery is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "Sabotage."
- 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: David McMillan Target entity description: David McMillan is the son of Nobel Prize–winning American physicist Edwin McMillan.
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A.
Robert McMillan
Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
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B.
Michael McKinnell
Michael McKinnell was a British-born American architect best known as the co-designer of Boston City Hall and a leading figure in late-20th-century civic architecture.
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C.
Jim McKelvey
Jim McKelvey is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the financial technology company Square (now Block, Inc.), as well as a philanthropist and author.
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D.
Alan McMichael
Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
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E.
Bruce McCleery
Bruce McCleery is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "Sabotage."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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physicist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Nobel Prize in Chemistry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| father | Edwin McMillan ⓘ |
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: David McMillan Description of subject: David McMillan is the son of Nobel Prize–winning American physicist Edwin McMillan.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.