Donald McLeod
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Donald McLeod was a Loyalist officer in the American Revolutionary War who led British-aligned forces at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in 1776.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donald McLeod canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3106956 — 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: Donald McLeod Context triple: [Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, commander, Donald McLeod]
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A.
Ray McKinnon
Ray McKinnon is an American actor, writer, producer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for creating the acclaimed series "Rectify."
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B.
Ed McCauley
Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
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C.
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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D.
Bruce McCleery
Bruce McCleery is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "Sabotage."
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E.
Douglas Kirk
Douglas Kirk is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kirk.
- 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: Donald McLeod Target entity description: Donald McLeod was a Loyalist officer in the American Revolutionary War who led British-aligned forces at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in 1776.
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A.
Ray McKinnon
Ray McKinnon is an American actor, writer, producer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for creating the acclaimed series "Rectify."
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B.
Ed McCauley
Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
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C.
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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D.
Bruce McCleery
Bruce McCleery is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "Sabotage."
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E.
Douglas Kirk
Douglas Kirk is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kirk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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Loyalist officer ⓘ battle ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Great Britain
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Loyalists ⓘ |
| commanded | Loyalist forces at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| date | 1776 ⓘ |
| location | North Carolina ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading British-aligned forces at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in 1776 ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge ⓘ |
| partOf | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | British side in the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge ⓘ |
| yearActive | 1776 ⓘ |
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: Donald McLeod Description of subject: Donald McLeod was a Loyalist officer in the American Revolutionary War who led British-aligned forces at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in 1776.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.