Norman MacLeod
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Norman MacLeod is a Scottish name borne by several notable figures, including clergymen, writers, and clan leaders prominent in 19th-century Scotland.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Norman MacLeod canonical | 2 |
| Iain Norman MacLeod | 1 |
| Norman McLeod | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3539461 — 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: Norman MacLeod Context triple: [MacLeod, hasNotableBearer, Norman MacLeod]
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A.
Angus MacPhail
Angus MacPhail was a British screenwriter known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock and for helping popularize the concept of the "MacGuffin" in film storytelling.
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B.
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
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C.
Charles MacDonald
Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
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D.
John Mathieson
John Mathieson is a British cinematographer known for his visually striking work on major films, particularly in collaboration with directors like Ridley Scott and Guy Ritchie.
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E.
Angus Imrie
Angus Imrie is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and radio, including roles in "The Archers" and "The Kid Who Would Be King."
- 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: Norman MacLeod Target entity description: Norman MacLeod is a Scottish name borne by several notable figures, including clergymen, writers, and clan leaders prominent in 19th-century Scotland.
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A.
Angus MacPhail
Angus MacPhail was a British screenwriter known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock and for helping popularize the concept of the "MacGuffin" in film storytelling.
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B.
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
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C.
Charles MacDonald
Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
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D.
John Mathieson
John Mathieson is a British cinematographer known for his visually striking work on major films, particularly in collaboration with directors like Ridley Scott and Guy Ritchie.
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E.
Angus Imrie
Angus Imrie is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and radio, including roles in "The Archers" and "The Kid Who Would Be King."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Norman MacLeod Description of subject: Norman MacLeod is a Scottish name borne by several notable figures, including clergymen, writers, and clan leaders prominent in 19th-century Scotland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.