James McFarlane
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James McFarlane was an American militia officer and prominent insurgent commander during the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James McFarlane canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3140458 — 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: James McFarlane Context triple: [Whiskey Rebellion, leader, James McFarlane]
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A.
Stephen McFeely
Stephen McFeely is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing several major Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Captain America trilogy and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
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B.
Chris MacFarland
Chris MacFarland is an NHL executive who serves as the general manager of the Colorado Avalanche, overseeing the team's hockey operations and roster decisions.
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C.
Rich McKay
Rich McKay is an American football executive best known for his long tenure in NFL leadership roles, including as a team executive and influential member of league committees.
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D.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
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E.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
- 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: James McFarlane Target entity description: James McFarlane was an American militia officer and prominent insurgent commander during the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s.
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A.
Stephen McFeely
Stephen McFeely is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing several major Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Captain America trilogy and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
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B.
Chris MacFarland
Chris MacFarland is an NHL executive who serves as the general manager of the Colorado Avalanche, overseeing the team's hockey operations and roster decisions.
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C.
Rich McKay
Rich McKay is an American football executive best known for his long tenure in NFL leadership roles, including as a team executive and influential member of league committees.
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D.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
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E.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American patriot
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 1790s ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability | leadership of insurgent forces in western Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| conflict | Whiskey Rebellion ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | McFarlane ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
rebel leader
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Early American Republic
ⓘ
linked to:
Early Republic of the United States
|
| militaryBranch | American militia ⓘ |
| movement | Whiskey Rebellion ⓘ |
| notableEvent | armed resistance to federal whiskey excise tax ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the Whiskey Rebellion ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
federal government’s whiskey tax policy
ⓘ
federal whiskey excise tax ⓘ |
| partOf |
American frontier resistance movements
ⓘ
linked to:
Indian Wars in the Southwest
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| placeOfActivity |
western Pennsylvania
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linked to:
Western Pennsylvania
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| positionHeld |
American militia officer
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insurgent commander during the Whiskey Rebellion ⓘ |
| role |
insurgent commander
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militia officer ⓘ |
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: James McFarlane Description of subject: James McFarlane was an American militia officer and prominent insurgent commander during the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.