Allan McNab
E921914
Allan McNab was the husband of Australian-born silent film actress Dorothy Cumming.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Allan McNab canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11371961 — 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: Allan McNab Context triple: [Dorothy Cumming, spouse, Allan McNab]
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A.
Malcolm McGregor
Malcolm McGregor was an American silent film actor active in the 1920s, known for his leading-man roles in romantic dramas and adventures.
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B.
Alastair Duncan
Alastair Duncan is a Scottish actor and voice actor known for his work in film, television, and video games.
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C.
Moray Callum
Moray Callum is a Scottish automotive designer best known for his influential work at Ford, where he helped shape the design language of numerous key models in the 2000s and 2010s.
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D.
Jamie Drummond
Jamie Drummond is a British activist and policy advocate best known as the co-founder of DATA and ONE, organizations focused on combating extreme poverty and disease in Africa through debt relief, fair trade, and increased aid.
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E.
Rob Knox
Rob Knox is an American record producer and songwriter known for his work with major pop and R&B artists such as Justin Timberlake.
- 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: Allan McNab Target entity description: Allan McNab was the husband of Australian-born silent film actress Dorothy Cumming.
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A.
Malcolm McGregor
Malcolm McGregor was an American silent film actor active in the 1920s, known for his leading-man roles in romantic dramas and adventures.
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B.
Alastair Duncan
Alastair Duncan is a Scottish actor and voice actor known for his work in film, television, and video games.
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C.
Moray Callum
Moray Callum is a Scottish automotive designer best known for his influential work at Ford, where he helped shape the design language of numerous key models in the 2000s and 2010s.
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D.
Jamie Drummond
Jamie Drummond is a British activist and policy advocate best known as the co-founder of DATA and ONE, organizations focused on combating extreme poverty and disease in Africa through debt relief, fair trade, and increased aid.
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E.
Rob Knox
Rob Knox is an American record producer and songwriter known for his work with major pop and R&B artists such as Justin Timberlake.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
silent film actress ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| spouse |
Allan McNab
ⓘ
Dorothy Cumming ⓘ |
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: Allan McNab Description of subject: Allan McNab was the husband of Australian-born silent film actress Dorothy Cumming.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Allan McNab