McPherson
E509615
McPherson is a surname most notably associated with James M. McPherson, a prominent American Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McPherson canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5303050 — 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: McPherson Context triple: [James M. McPherson, familyName, McPherson]
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A.
Winfield
Winfield is a masculine given name most notably borne by 19th-century American military leader Winfield Scott.
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B.
Kilpatric
Kilpatric is a surname variant of Kilpatrick, a Scottish-origin family name historically associated with clans and place names in Scotland.
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C.
Pomeroy
Pomeroy is a small village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, known for its rural setting and surrounding upland landscapes.
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D.
Zebulon
Zebulon is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally associated with the biblical tribe of Zebulun.
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E.
Thomas Day
Thomas Day was an 18th-century British author and radical thinker best known for his didactic children's book "The History of Sandford and Merton" and his involvement in Enlightenment and reformist circles.
- 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: McPherson Target entity description: McPherson is a surname most notably associated with James M. McPherson, a prominent American Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author.
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A.
Winfield
Winfield is a masculine given name most notably borne by 19th-century American military leader Winfield Scott.
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B.
Kilpatric
Kilpatric is a surname variant of Kilpatrick, a Scottish-origin family name historically associated with clans and place names in Scotland.
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C.
Pomeroy
Pomeroy is a small village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, known for its rural setting and surrounding upland landscapes.
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D.
Zebulon
Zebulon is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally associated with the biblical tribe of Zebulun.
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E.
Thomas Day
Thomas Day was an 18th-century British author and radical thinker best known for his didactic children's book "The History of Sandford and Merton" and his involvement in Enlightenment and reformist circles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Lincoln Prize
ⓘ
Pulitzer Prize for History ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-10-11 ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | MacPherson ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Gustavus Adolphus College
ⓘ
Johns Hopkins University ⓘ |
| employer | Princeton University ⓘ |
| familyName | McPherson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American Civil War history
ⓘ
United States history ⓘ |
| genre |
historical writing
ⓘ
non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | James M. McPherson ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
historian
ⓘ
university professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| meaning | son of the parson ⓘ |
| notableFor | scholarship on the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableWork | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Valley City, North Dakota, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of History at Princeton University ⓘ |
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: McPherson Description of subject: McPherson is a surname most notably associated with James M. McPherson, a prominent American Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.