Malcolm MacArthur
E204076
Malcolm MacArthur was the son of Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur and part of the prominent MacArthur family connected to U.S. General Douglas MacArthur.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Malcolm MacArthur canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1540819 — 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: Malcolm MacArthur Context triple: [Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur, motherOf, Malcolm MacArthur]
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A.
Malcolm MacArthur
Malcolm MacArthur was a son of American Civil War general and later U.S. President James A. Garfield’s wife, Mary Pinkney Hardy (Mollie) MacArthur.
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B.
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was a prominent American five-star general who played a leading role in the Pacific theater during World War II and later oversaw the Allied occupation of Japan.
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C.
Arthur MacArthur Jr.
Arthur MacArthur Jr. was a U.S. Army general and Medal of Honor recipient who served as military governor of the Philippines and was the father of General Douglas MacArthur.
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D.
MacArthur
MacArthur is a Scottish-origin surname notably borne by several prominent American military figures and public personalities.
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E.
Arthur MacArthur Sr.
Arthur MacArthur Sr. was an American lawyer, Civil War officer, and politician who briefly served as the acting governor of Wisconsin.
- 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: Malcolm MacArthur Target entity description: Malcolm MacArthur was the son of Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur and part of the prominent MacArthur family connected to U.S. General Douglas MacArthur.
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A.
Malcolm MacArthur
Malcolm MacArthur was a son of American Civil War general and later U.S. President James A. Garfield’s wife, Mary Pinkney Hardy (Mollie) MacArthur.
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B.
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was a prominent American five-star general who played a leading role in the Pacific theater during World War II and later oversaw the Allied occupation of Japan.
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C.
Arthur MacArthur Jr.
Arthur MacArthur Jr. was a U.S. Army general and Medal of Honor recipient who served as military governor of the Philippines and was the father of General Douglas MacArthur.
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D.
MacArthur
MacArthur is a Scottish-origin surname notably borne by several prominent American military figures and public personalities.
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E.
Arthur MacArthur Sr.
Arthur MacArthur Sr. was an American lawyer, Civil War officer, and politician who briefly served as the acting governor of Wisconsin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
MacArthur
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MacArthur ⓘ MacArthur ⓘ |
| givenName |
Hardy
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Malcolm ⓘ Mary ⓘ Pinkney ⓘ |
| hasSurnameInCommonWith | Douglas MacArthur ⓘ |
| memberOf | MacArthur family ⓘ |
| militaryRank | General of the Army ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur ⓘ |
| notableFamily | MacArthur family ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection | Douglas MacArthur ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| partOf | extended family of Douglas MacArthur ⓘ |
| relative |
Douglas MacArthur
ⓘ
Douglas MacArthur ⓘ |
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: Malcolm MacArthur Description of subject: Malcolm MacArthur was the son of Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur and part of the prominent MacArthur family connected to U.S. General Douglas MacArthur.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.