McBean
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McBean is a variant of the surname "Bean," often used as a family name of Scottish origin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McBean canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10844595 — 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: McBean Context triple: [Bean, hasVariant, McBean]
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A.
Angus McBean
Angus McBean was a Welsh photographer renowned for his surrealist-influenced portraits and iconic album cover work for artists including the Beatles.
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B.
McAvennie
McAvennie is the surname of Frank McAvennie, a former Scottish professional footballer best known for his prolific goal-scoring spells with St Mirren, West Ham United, and Celtic in the 1980s.
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C.
Bolte
Bolte is a surname of German origin, often considered a variant spelling of the name Boldt.
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D.
McGegan
McGegan is the surname of Nicholas McGegan, a renowned British conductor and early music specialist known for his interpretations of Baroque and Classical repertoire.
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E.
McKaley
McKaley is an American actress best known for her roles in television series such as "Hart of Dixie" and "Scream Queens."
- 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: McBean Target entity description: McBean is a variant of the surname "Bean," often used as a family name of Scottish origin.
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A.
Angus McBean
Angus McBean was a Welsh photographer renowned for his surrealist-influenced portraits and iconic album cover work for artists including the Beatles.
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B.
McAvennie
McAvennie is the surname of Frank McAvennie, a former Scottish professional footballer best known for his prolific goal-scoring spells with St Mirren, West Ham United, and Celtic in the 1980s.
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C.
Bolte
Bolte is a surname of German origin, often considered a variant spelling of the name Boldt.
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D.
McGegan
McGegan is the surname of Nicholas McGegan, a renowned British conductor and early music specialist known for his interpretations of Baroque and Classical repertoire.
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E.
McKaley
McKaley is an American actress best known for her roles in television series such as "Hart of Dixie" and "Scream Queens."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Anglicised Scottish Gaelic-language surnames
ⓘ
Patronymic surnames ⓘ Scottish surnames ⓘ |
| hasClanAssociation |
Clan Chattan
ⓘ
Clan MacBean ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalElement |
Bean
ⓘ
Mac ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalUsageSince | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Angus McBean
ⓘ
Archie McBean ⓘ Hugh McBean ⓘ John McBean ⓘ William McBean ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Scottish ⓘ |
| hasRegionOfPrevalence |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Scotland ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasSpellingVariant |
MacBain
ⓘ
MacBean ⓘ MacBeath ⓘ McBain ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Bean ⓘ |
| isDerivedFrom | Gaelic-language surname ⓘ |
| isRelatedSurname |
Bain
ⓘ
Bean ⓘ Beaton ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | last name ⓘ |
| isUsedBy | people of Scottish descent ⓘ |
| means | son of Bean ⓘ |
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: McBean Description of subject: McBean is a variant of the surname "Bean," often used as a family name of Scottish origin.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.