McPhee
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McPhee is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in entertainment, sports, and public life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McPhee canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6349534 — 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: McPhee Context triple: [Katharine McPhee, familyName, McPhee]
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A.
McCloskey
McCloskey is a surname most notably associated with John Cardinal McCloskey, the first American cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.
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B.
Wheeler Oakman
Wheeler Oakman was an American film actor of the silent and early sound eras, known for his prolific work in crime dramas and serials.
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C.
Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his narrative nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
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D.
Patrick Radden Keefe
Patrick Radden Keefe is an American investigative journalist and author known for his deeply reported narrative nonfiction on topics such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the opioid crisis, and international crime.
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E.
Bill Morris
Bill Morris is a prominent British trade union leader who became the first Black general secretary of a major UK trade union and later a life peer in the House of Lords.
- 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: McPhee Target entity description: McPhee is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in entertainment, sports, and public life.
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A.
McCloskey
McCloskey is a surname most notably associated with John Cardinal McCloskey, the first American cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.
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B.
Wheeler Oakman
Wheeler Oakman was an American film actor of the silent and early sound eras, known for his prolific work in crime dramas and serials.
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C.
Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his narrative nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
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D.
Patrick Radden Keefe
Patrick Radden Keefe is an American investigative journalist and author known for his deeply reported narrative nonfiction on topics such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the opioid crisis, and international crime.
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E.
Bill Morris
Bill Morris is a prominent British trade union leader who became the first Black general secretary of a major UK trade union and later a life peer in the House of Lords.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: McPhee Description of subject: McPhee is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in entertainment, sports, and public life.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.