Moore
E32614
Moore is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, politics, entertainment, and sports.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moore canonical | 131 |
| Moore (anglicised) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T255903 — 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: Moore Context triple: [Gordon E. Moore, familyName, Moore]
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A.
Moore
Moore is the middle name of Edward M. Kennedy, the long-serving U.S. senator from Massachusetts and prominent member of the Kennedy political family.
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B.
Miller
Miller is a common English and Scottish occupational surname historically given to people who worked in grain mills.
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C.
McClintock
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
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D.
Richardson
Richardson is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its telecommunications industry and the University of Texas at Dallas.
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E.
Milhous
Milhous is the distinctive middle name of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
- 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: Moore Target entity description: Moore is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, politics, entertainment, and sports.
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A.
Moore
Moore is the middle name of Edward M. Kennedy, the long-serving U.S. senator from Massachusetts and prominent member of the Kennedy political family.
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B.
Miller
Miller is a common English and Scottish occupational surname historically given to people who worked in grain mills.
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C.
McClintock
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
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D.
Richardson
Richardson is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its telecommunications industry and the University of Texas at Dallas.
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E.
Milhous
Milhous is the distinctive middle name of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
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surname ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
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Occupational surnames ⓘ Surnames of Irish origin ⓘ Surnames of Scottish origin ⓘ Toponymic surnames ⓘ |
| etymology |
derived from Middle English "more" meaning "moor" or "marsh"
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sometimes derived from Gaelic "Ó Mordha" meaning "descendant of Mordha" ⓘ |
| frequency | common in English-speaking countries ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
descendant of a great or noble person (Gaelic origin)
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person who lived near a moor ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alan Moore
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Bobby Moore ⓘ Demi Moore ⓘ Gordon Moore ⓘ
linked to:
Gordon E. Moore
Henry Moore ⓘ Julianne Moore ⓘ Marianne Moore ⓘ Michael Moore ⓘ Patrick Moore ⓘ Rachel Moore ⓘ Roger Moore ⓘ Roy Moore ⓘ Thomas Moore ⓘ Vivian Moore ⓘ Wes Moore ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
British Isles
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England ⓘ Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Moor
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More ⓘ Muir ⓘ O’Moore ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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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: Moore Description of subject: Moore is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, politics, entertainment, and sports.
Referenced by (132)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.