Dorothy Macmillan
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Dorothy Macmillan was the mother of British publisher and Conservative politician Maurice Crawford Macmillan and a member of the prominent Macmillan family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorothy Macmillan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5519127 — 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: Dorothy Macmillan Context triple: [Maurice Crawford Macmillan, mother, Dorothy Macmillan]
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A.
Dorothy Kenyon
Dorothy Kenyon was a pioneering American lawyer, judge, and feminist activist known for her early and influential work advancing women's rights and civil liberties.
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B.
Dorothy Buxton
Dorothy Buxton was a British social reformer and humanitarian best known for co-founding the international child welfare organization Save the Children.
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C.
Dorothy Cumming
Dorothy Cumming was an Australian-born silent film actress best known for her role as the Virgin Mary in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 biblical epic "The King of Kings."
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D.
Margaret Durkan
Margaret Durkan is a notable individual recognized for bearing the Durkan surname, likely distinguished in a professional, public, or cultural field.
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E.
Edith Luckett
Edith Luckett was an American stage actress best known as the mother of Nancy Reagan, the future First Lady of the United States.
- 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: Dorothy Macmillan Target entity description: Dorothy Macmillan was the mother of British publisher and Conservative politician Maurice Crawford Macmillan and a member of the prominent Macmillan family.
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A.
Dorothy Kenyon
Dorothy Kenyon was a pioneering American lawyer, judge, and feminist activist known for her early and influential work advancing women's rights and civil liberties.
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B.
Dorothy Buxton
Dorothy Buxton was a British social reformer and humanitarian best known for co-founding the international child welfare organization Save the Children.
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C.
Dorothy Cumming
Dorothy Cumming was an Australian-born silent film actress best known for her role as the Virgin Mary in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 biblical epic "The King of Kings."
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D.
Margaret Durkan
Margaret Durkan is a notable individual recognized for bearing the Durkan surname, likely distinguished in a professional, public, or cultural field.
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E.
Edith Luckett
Edith Luckett was an American stage actress best known as the mother of Nancy Reagan, the future First Lady of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName |
Macmillan
ⓘ
linked to:
Macmillan Publishers
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| memberOf | Macmillan family ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Conservative Party (UK) ⓘ |
| motherOf | Maurice Crawford Macmillan ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
publisher ⓘ |
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: Dorothy Macmillan Description of subject: Dorothy Macmillan was the mother of British publisher and Conservative politician Maurice Crawford Macmillan and a member of the prominent Macmillan family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.