MacGraw
E480135
MacGraw is a surname of Scottish origin, often associated with families bearing variations like McGraw.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4924243 — 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: MacGraw Context triple: [McGraw, derivedFrom, MacGraw]
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A.
Jones
Jones is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, politics, and science.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John D. Rockefeller Jr., the American philanthropist and heir to the Rockefeller family fortune.
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C.
John
John is the given name of John C. Stennis, a long-serving U.S. Senator from Mississippi known for his influence on defense policy.
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D.
John
John is the given name of American singer-songwriter and guitarist John Mayer, known for his blues-influenced pop and rock music.
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E.
John
John is the given name of John McGraw, the famed early 20th-century Major League Baseball manager and Hall of Famer.
- 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: MacGraw Target entity description: MacGraw is a surname of Scottish origin, often associated with families bearing variations like McGraw.
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Jones
Jones is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, politics, and science.
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B.
John
John H. Sununu is an American politician and engineer who served as Governor of New Hampshire and later as White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.
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C.
John
John is the given name of John D. Rockefeller Jr., the American philanthropist and heir to the Rockefeller family fortune.
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D.
John
John is the given name of the renowned American-born painter John Singleton Copley, famous for his portraits of prominent figures in colonial New England.
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E.
John
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, is a Scottish Labour politician who held several senior UK government posts, including Home Secretary and Defence Secretary, in the late 1990s and 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasAward | Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama ⓘ |
| hasBirthYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Scottish surnames
ⓘ
Surnames of Scottish origin ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalElement | Mac ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | MacGraw ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Ali ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Ali MacGraw ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork |
Goodbye, Columbus (1969 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Goodbye, Columbus
Love Story (1970 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Love Story
|
| hasOccupation |
actress
ⓘ
model ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Macgraw
ⓘ
linked to:
MacGraw
Magraw ⓘ McGraw ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | family name ⓘ |
| isWrittenWithCapitalLetter | M ⓘ |
| isWrittenWithInternalCapital | G ⓘ |
| means | son of Graw or son of a person named with a related Gaelic root ⓘ |
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: MacGraw Description of subject: MacGraw is a surname of Scottish origin, often associated with families bearing variations like McGraw.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.