Bill McBride
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Bill McBride was a Florida lawyer and Democratic politician best known for being the party’s nominee for governor in the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election against incumbent Jeb Bush.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill McBride canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8027197 — 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: Bill McBride Context triple: [2002 Florida gubernatorial election, majorCandidate, Bill McBride]
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A.
Tom McDermott
Tom McDermott is a New Orleans–based jazz and ragtime pianist and composer known for his eclectic style and deep knowledge of early American music.
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B.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
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C.
Bobby McDermott
Bobby McDermott was an American professional basketball guard widely regarded as one of the greatest players of the pre-NBA era, known for his prolific scoring and multiple championships in the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Jon A. McBride
Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
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E.
Bill McGowan
Bill McGowan was a prominent American Major League Baseball umpire renowned for his long career, authoritative style, and induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 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: Bill McBride Target entity description: Bill McBride was a Florida lawyer and Democratic politician best known for being the party’s nominee for governor in the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election against incumbent Jeb Bush.
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A.
Tom McDermott
Tom McDermott is a New Orleans–based jazz and ragtime pianist and composer known for his eclectic style and deep knowledge of early American music.
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B.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
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C.
Bobby McDermott
Bobby McDermott was an American professional basketball guard widely regarded as one of the greatest players of the pre-NBA era, known for his prolific scoring and multiple championships in the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Jon A. McBride
Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
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E.
Bill McGowan
Bill McGowan was a prominent American Major League Baseball umpire renowned for his long career, authoritative style, and induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Democratic Party politician
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| candidateInElection | 2002 Florida gubernatorial election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| conflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-05-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-12-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Florida
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Florida Levin College of Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| electionOutcome | lost to incumbent Jeb Bush in 2002 Florida gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| employer | Holland & Knight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | McBride NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil law
ⓘ
corporate law ⓘ public policy ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity | state-level politics in Florida ⓘ |
| givenName | Bill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | two children ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Democratic nominee for governor of Florida in 2002
ⓘ
leadership role at Holland & Knight law firm ⓘ |
| livedIn |
Tampa, Florida
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thonotosassa, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Marine officer ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| nominatedBy | Florida Democratic Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | won 2002 Florida Democratic gubernatorial primary ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of Holland & Knight law firm ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | Governor of Florida ⓘ |
| opponent | Jeb Bush NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bellevue, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalRegion | Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | managing partner of Holland & Knight ⓘ |
| relative | Alex Sink NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Presbyterian ⓘ |
| residence | Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Alex Sink NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Bill McBride Description of subject: Bill McBride was a Florida lawyer and Democratic politician best known for being the party’s nominee for governor in the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election against incumbent Jeb Bush.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.