Harold W. McGraw Jr.
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Harold W. McGraw Jr. was an American publishing executive and longtime leader of McGraw-Hill who became a prominent philanthropist in the field of education.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harold W. McGraw Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8251221 — 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: Harold W. McGraw Jr. Context triple: [Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education, namedAfter, Harold W. McGraw Jr.]
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A.
Edward Willis Scripps
Edward Willis Scripps was an American newspaper publisher and media entrepreneur who built one of the first major U.S. newspaper chains and helped shape modern mass journalism.
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B.
A. W. Ross
A. W. Ross was a real estate developer best known for transforming Los Angeles’s Wilshire Boulevard into the bustling Miracle Mile commercial district.
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C.
Peter Arrell Browne Widener
Peter Arrell Browne Widener was a prominent American businessman and art collector who amassed a fortune in streetcar and meatpacking enterprises and became one of the wealthiest men of the Gilded Age.
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D.
Charles Stewart Mott
Charles Stewart Mott was an American industrialist and philanthropist best known as an early partner in General Motors and a major benefactor of civic and educational causes.
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E.
John J. Raskob
John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for masterminding and financing the construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
- 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: Harold W. McGraw Jr. Target entity description: Harold W. McGraw Jr. was an American publishing executive and longtime leader of McGraw-Hill who became a prominent philanthropist in the field of education.
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A.
Edward Willis Scripps
Edward Willis Scripps was an American newspaper publisher and media entrepreneur who built one of the first major U.S. newspaper chains and helped shape modern mass journalism.
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B.
A. W. Ross
A. W. Ross was a real estate developer best known for transforming Los Angeles’s Wilshire Boulevard into the bustling Miracle Mile commercial district.
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C.
Peter Arrell Browne Widener
Peter Arrell Browne Widener was a prominent American businessman and art collector who amassed a fortune in streetcar and meatpacking enterprises and became one of the wealthiest men of the Gilded Age.
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D.
Charles Stewart Mott
Charles Stewart Mott was an American industrialist and philanthropist best known as an early partner in General Motors and a major benefactor of civic and educational causes.
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E.
John J. Raskob
John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for masterminding and financing the construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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human ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| affiliation |
McGraw-Hill Companies
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linked to:
McGraw-Hill
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | McGraw-Hill ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
educational publishing
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philanthropy in education ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Harold McGraw III ⓘ |
| industry |
education industry
ⓘ
publishing industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | McGraw family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
corporate leadership in American publishing
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leadership of McGraw-Hill ⓘ longtime leadership of McGraw-Hill ⓘ philanthropic contributions to education ⓘ support for educational philanthropy ⓘ support of educational institutions ⓘ |
| notableWork | expansion of McGraw-Hill’s educational publishing operations ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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philanthropist ⓘ publishing executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chairman of McGraw-Hill
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chief executive officer of McGraw-Hill ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
American education
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global educational publishing ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Harold W. McGraw Jr. Description of subject: Harold W. McGraw Jr. was an American publishing executive and longtime leader of McGraw-Hill who became a prominent philanthropist in the field of education.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.