McKinley
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McKinley is the surname of Ida Saxton McKinley, who was the First Lady of the United States as the wife of President William McKinley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McKinley canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6735358 — 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: McKinley Context triple: [Ida Saxton McKinley, familyName, McKinley]
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A.
McKinley
McKinley is the given first name of legendary American blues musician Muddy Waters, a key figure in the development of Chicago blues.
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B.
Abram Garfield
Abram Garfield was an American architect and the son of U.S. President James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Rudolph Garfield.
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C.
Charles Willard Hayes
Charles Willard Hayes was an American geologist and explorer known for his significant contributions to the geological study and mapping of Alaska.
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D.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, known for his progressive reforms, trust-busting policies, and leadership in conservation and American imperial expansion.
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E.
John Scott Harrison
John Scott Harrison was a 19th-century American politician and farmer from Ohio, notable as the son of President William Henry Harrison and the father of President Benjamin Harrison.
- 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: McKinley Target entity description: McKinley is the surname of Ida Saxton McKinley, who was the First Lady of the United States as the wife of President William McKinley.
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A.
McKinley
McKinley is the given first name of legendary American blues musician Muddy Waters, a key figure in the development of Chicago blues.
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B.
Abram Garfield
Abram Garfield was an American architect and the son of U.S. President James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Rudolph Garfield.
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C.
Charles Willard Hayes
Charles Willard Hayes was an American geologist and explorer known for his significant contributions to the geological study and mapping of Alaska.
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D.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, known for his progressive reforms, trust-busting policies, and leadership in conservation and American imperial expansion.
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E.
John Scott Harrison
John Scott Harrison was a 19th-century American politician and farmer from Ohio, notable as the son of President William Henry Harrison and the father of President Benjamin Harrison.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
First Lady of the United States
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
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Scottish surnames ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Gaelic MacFhionnlaigh ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Ida Saxton McKinley
ⓘ
William McKinley ⓘ |
| hasSurname |
McKinley
ⓘ
McKinley ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| meaning | son of Finlay ⓘ |
| spouse | William McKinley ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Ida Saxton McKinley
ⓘ
William McKinley ⓘ |
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: McKinley Description of subject: McKinley is the surname of Ida Saxton McKinley, who was the First Lady of the United States as the wife of President William McKinley.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.