McMillan
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McMillan is a surname of Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as literature, politics, and sports.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1230941 — 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: McMillan Context triple: [Terry McMillan, familyName, McMillan]
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A.
McCauley
McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
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McFall
McFall is the surname of Lord McFall of Alcluith, a British Labour politician and life peer.
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Millen Brand
Millen Brand was an American novelist, poet, and screenwriter known for his socially conscious works and for co-writing the film adaptation of the mental health drama "The Snake Pit."
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McGuire
McGuire is a surname most notably associated with American actress Dorothy McGuire, known for her work in classic Hollywood films.
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Thompson
Thompson is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as acting, sports, politics, and science.
- 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: McMillan Target entity description: McMillan is a surname of Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as literature, politics, and sports.
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A.
McCauley
McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
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B.
McFall
McFall is the surname of Lord McFall of Alcluith, a British Labour politician and life peer.
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C.
Millen Brand
Millen Brand was an American novelist, poet, and screenwriter known for his socially conscious works and for co-writing the film adaptation of the mental health drama "The Snake Pit."
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D.
McGuire
McGuire is a surname most notably associated with American actress Dorothy McGuire, known for her work in classic Hollywood films.
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E.
Thompson
Thompson is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as acting, sports, politics, and science.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: McMillan Description of subject: McMillan is a surname of Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as literature, politics, and sports.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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