McDuff
E621119
McDuff is a surname most notably associated with Dusa McDuff, a prominent British-American mathematician known for her work in symplectic geometry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McDuff canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6834173 — 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: McDuff Context triple: [Dusa McDuff, familyName, McDuff]
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A.
Mitch Seavey
Mitch Seavey is an American dog musher best known as a multiple-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion from Alaska.
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B.
Nyad
Nyad is a biographical drama film depicting long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad's historic attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida at age 64.
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C.
Duncan Kenworthy
Duncan Kenworthy is a British film and television producer best known for hit romantic comedies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Notting Hill," and "Love Actually."
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D.
Cracknell
Cracknell is an English surname most notably associated with Olympic gold-medal-winning rower James Cracknell.
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E.
Ziller
The Ziller is a river in the Austrian state of Tyrol that flows through the Zillertal valley before joining the Inn River.
- 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: McDuff Target entity description: McDuff is a surname most notably associated with Dusa McDuff, a prominent British-American mathematician known for her work in symplectic geometry.
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A.
Mitch Seavey
Mitch Seavey is an American dog musher best known as a multiple-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion from Alaska.
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B.
Nyad
Nyad is a biographical drama film depicting long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad's historic attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida at age 64.
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C.
Duncan Kenworthy
Duncan Kenworthy is a British film and television producer best known for hit romantic comedies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Notting Hill," and "Love Actually."
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D.
Cracknell
Cracknell is an English surname most notably associated with Olympic gold-medal-winning rower James Cracknell.
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E.
Ziller
The Ziller is a river in the Austrian state of Tyrol that flows through the Zillertal valley before joining the Inn River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British-American mathematician
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
symplectic geometry
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topology ⓘ |
| hasSurname | McDuff ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| usedBy | Dusa McDuff ⓘ |
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: McDuff Description of subject: McDuff is a surname most notably associated with Dusa McDuff, a prominent British-American mathematician known for her work in symplectic geometry.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
McDuff