her father Robert Charles McMaster
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Robert Charles McMaster was the father of science fiction and fantasy author Lois McMaster Bujold and a significant formative influence on her writing and imagination.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| her father Robert Charles McMaster canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6910308 — 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: her father Robert Charles McMaster Context triple: [Lois McMaster Bujold, influencedBy, her father Robert Charles McMaster]
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A.
Fergus McMaster
Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman best known as a co-founder and early chairman of Qantas, helping to establish it as a pioneering national airline.
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B.
Miles Macdonell
Miles Macdonell was a Scottish-born colonial governor best known for leading and administering the early 19th-century Selkirk-sponsored settlement at the Red River in what is now Manitoba, Canada.
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C.
John McLaren
John McLaren was a prominent Scottish-American landscape architect best known for shaping and supervising the development of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
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D.
John Valentine Carruthers
John Valentine Carruthers is an English guitarist best known for his work in the 1980s with the post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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E.
John McKenzie
John McKenzie was a prominent professional ice hockey right winger best known for his successful career in the NHL and WHA during the 1960s and 1970s.
- 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: her father Robert Charles McMaster Target entity description: Robert Charles McMaster was the father of science fiction and fantasy author Lois McMaster Bujold and a significant formative influence on her writing and imagination.
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A.
Fergus McMaster
Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman best known as a co-founder and early chairman of Qantas, helping to establish it as a pioneering national airline.
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B.
Miles Macdonell
Miles Macdonell was a Scottish-born colonial governor best known for leading and administering the early 19th-century Selkirk-sponsored settlement at the Red River in what is now Manitoba, Canada.
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C.
John McLaren
John McLaren was a prominent Scottish-American landscape architect best known for shaping and supervising the development of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
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D.
John Valentine Carruthers
John Valentine Carruthers is an English guitarist best known for his work in the 1980s with the post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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E.
John McKenzie
John McKenzie was a prominent professional ice hockey right winger best known for his successful career in the NHL and WHA during the 1960s and 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| child | Lois McMaster Bujold ⓘ |
| father | Robert Charles McMaster ⓘ |
| influenceOn | Lois McMaster Bujold ⓘ |
| influenceType | formative influence on writing and imagination ⓘ |
| name | Robert Charles McMaster ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Lois McMaster Bujold ⓘ |
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: her father Robert Charles McMaster Description of subject: Robert Charles McMaster was the father of science fiction and fantasy author Lois McMaster Bujold and a significant formative influence on her writing and imagination.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.