McAfee-Maggart
E198271
McAfee-Maggart is the hyphenated family surname of American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, reflecting her parents' last names.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McAfee-Maggart canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1786000 — 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: McAfee-Maggart Context triple: [Fiona Apple, familyName, McAfee-Maggart]
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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.
Norton
Norton is a small town in Bristol County, southeastern Massachusetts, known for being home to Wheaton College and several scenic ponds and conservation areas.
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C.
Norton
Norton is a residential suburb within the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England.
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D.
Norton
Norton is a surname of English origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as literature, politics, and the arts.
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E.
Norton
Norton is a dark-skinned American grape variety, historically significant in Midwestern and Eastern U.S. winemaking for producing deeply colored, full-bodied red wines with notable disease resistance.
- 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: McAfee-Maggart Target entity description: McAfee-Maggart is the hyphenated family surname of American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, reflecting her parents' last names.
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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.
Norton
Norton is a small town in Bristol County, southeastern Massachusetts, known for being home to Wheaton College and several scenic ponds and conservation areas.
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C.
Norton
Norton is a surname of English origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as literature, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Norton
Norton is a residential suburb within the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England.
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E.
Norton
Norton is a dark-skinned American grape variety, historically significant in Midwestern and Eastern U.S. winemaking for producing deeply colored, full-bodied red wines with notable disease resistance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family surname
ⓘ
hyphenated surname ⓘ |
| bearerNationality | American ⓘ |
| bearerProfession | singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| birthName |
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart
ⓘ
linked to:
Fiona Apple
|
| componentSurname |
Maggart
ⓘ
McAfee ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| namedAfterFamily |
Maggart family
ⓘ
McAfee family ⓘ |
| surnameCategory |
American surnames
ⓘ
compound surname ⓘ |
| usedBy | Fiona Apple ⓘ |
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: McAfee-Maggart Description of subject: McAfee-Maggart is the hyphenated family surname of American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, reflecting her parents' last names.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Fiona