McElderry
E578658
McElderry is the surname of Margaret K. McElderry, a pioneering American children's book editor and publisher.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McElderry canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6218435 — 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: McElderry Context triple: [Margaret K. McElderry, familyName, McElderry]
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A.
Carronshore
Carronshore is a small village in Falkirk, Scotland, situated near the River Carron and historically linked to local industry and river trade.
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B.
Cardross
Cardross is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, historically notable as the place where King Robert the Bruce spent his final years and died.
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C.
Fairlie
Fairlie is a small rural service town in New Zealand’s South Island, known as a gateway to the Mackenzie District and nearby alpine and lake attractions.
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D.
Lundie
Lundie is a small rural settlement in Angus, Scotland, situated near the Sidlaw Hills and known for its scenic countryside setting.
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E.
Kinnaird
Kinnaird is a historic Scottish estate and locality traditionally associated with the Carnegie family and the title of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird.
- 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: McElderry Target entity description: McElderry is the surname of Margaret K. McElderry, a pioneering American children's book editor and publisher.
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A.
Carronshore
Carronshore is a small village in Falkirk, Scotland, situated near the River Carron and historically linked to local industry and river trade.
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B.
Cardross
Cardross is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, historically notable as the place where King Robert the Bruce spent his final years and died.
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C.
Fairlie
Fairlie is a small rural service town in New Zealand’s South Island, known as a gateway to the Mackenzie District and nearby alpine and lake attractions.
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D.
Lundie
Lundie is a small rural settlement in Angus, Scotland, situated near the Sidlaw Hills and known for its scenic countryside setting.
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E.
Kinnaird
Kinnaird is a historic Scottish estate and locality traditionally associated with the Carnegie family and the title of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
book editing
ⓘ
children's literature ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| hasSurname | McElderry ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
Irish surname
ⓘ
Scottish surname ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Margaret K. McElderry ⓘ |
| usedBy | Margaret K. McElderry ⓘ |
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: McElderry Description of subject: McElderry is the surname of Margaret K. McElderry, a pioneering American children's book editor and publisher.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
McElderry