McFarland
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McFarland is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin borne by various notable individuals across sports, politics, and the arts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McFarland canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10243071 — 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: McFarland Context triple: [Roy McFarland, familyName, McFarland]
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A.
McFarland
McFarland is a small agricultural city in California’s Central Valley, known for its farming community and as the inspiration for the film "McFarland, USA."
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B.
McFarland
McFarland is a suburban village in south-central Wisconsin, located just southeast of Madison in Dane County.
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C.
McFarland, USA
McFarland, USA is a 2015 sports drama film based on the true story of a high school cross-country team in a Latino community that overcomes social and economic challenges to achieve success.
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D.
Only the Brave
Only the Brave is a 2017 biographical drama film that chronicles the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite firefighting team battling wildfires in Arizona.
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E.
Meek's Cutoff
Meek's Cutoff is a 2010 slow-burning Western drama film directed by Kelly Reichardt that follows a group of settlers lost on the Oregon Trail in 1845.
- 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: McFarland Target entity description: McFarland is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin borne by various notable individuals across sports, politics, and the arts.
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A.
McFarland
McFarland is a small agricultural city in California’s Central Valley, known for its farming community and as the inspiration for the film "McFarland, USA."
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B.
McFarland
McFarland is a suburban village in south-central Wisconsin, located just southeast of Madison in Dane County.
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C.
McFarland, USA
McFarland, USA is a 2015 sports drama film based on the true story of a high school cross-country team in a Latino community that overcomes social and economic challenges to achieve success.
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D.
Only the Brave
Only the Brave is a 2017 biographical drama film that chronicles the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite firefighting team battling wildfires in Arizona.
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E.
Meek's Cutoff
Meek's Cutoff is a 2010 slow-burning Western drama film directed by Kelly Reichardt that follows a group of settlers lost on the Oregon Trail in 1845.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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surname ⓘ |
| category |
Anglicised Irish-language surnames
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Anglicised Scottish Gaelic-language surnames ⓘ Irish surnames ⓘ Scottish surnames ⓘ |
| familyName |
McFarland
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McFarland ⓘ McFarland ⓘ McFarland ⓘ McFarland ⓘ McFarland ⓘ McFarland ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Ben McFarland
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George McFarland ⓘ K. T. McFarland ⓘ Kevin McFarland ⓘ Raymond McFarland ⓘ Todd McFarlane ⓘ Will McFarland ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
MacFarland
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MacFarlane ⓘ McFarlane ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Irish
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Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWork | Spawn ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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artist ⓘ comic book creator ⓘ former government official ⓘ musician ⓘ political commentator ⓘ politician ⓘ rugby union player ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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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: McFarland Description of subject: McFarland is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin borne by various notable individuals across sports, politics, and the arts.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.