David McRae
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David McRae is an author known for his work on the song "Maria Maria."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David McRae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5623076 — 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 McRae Context triple: [Maria Maria, writer, David McRae]
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A.
Bruce MacRae
Bruce MacRae is known primarily as the son of American actor and singer Gordon MacRae.
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B.
Douglas McPhail
Douglas McPhail was an American singer and actor active in the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for his musical film roles at MGM.
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C.
Stephen MacLean
Stephen MacLean was an Australian screenwriter and filmmaker best known for his work on music-infused films and television, including the cult musical comedy "Starstruck" (1982).
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D.
Bob MacKinnon
Bob MacKinnon was an American basketball coach known for his work in the ABA and NBA, including leading the Spirits of St. Louis.
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E.
Angus McKie
Angus McKie is a British illustrator and colorist known for his detailed science fiction artwork and influential contributions to comic book coloring.
- 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 McRae Target entity description: David McRae is an author known for his work on the song "Maria Maria."
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A.
Bruce MacRae
Bruce MacRae is known primarily as the son of American actor and singer Gordon MacRae.
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B.
Douglas McPhail
Douglas McPhail was an American singer and actor active in the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for his musical film roles at MGM.
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C.
Stephen MacLean
Stephen MacLean was an Australian screenwriter and filmmaker best known for his work on music-infused films and television, including the cult musical comedy "Starstruck" (1982).
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D.
Bob MacKinnon
Bob MacKinnon was an American basketball coach known for his work in the ABA and NBA, including leading the Spirits of St. Louis.
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E.
Angus McKie
Angus McKie is a British illustrator and colorist known for his detailed science fiction artwork and influential contributions to comic book coloring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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song ⓘ |
| name | David McRae ⓘ |
| notableWork | Maria Maria ⓘ |
| occupation | author ⓘ |
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 McRae Description of subject: David McRae is an author known for his work on the song "Maria Maria."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.