Stephen Mack
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Stephen Mack was an early 19th-century American businessman and older brother of Lucy Mack Smith, making him the maternal uncle of Latter-day Saint founder Joseph Smith.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stephen Mack canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9231520 — 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: Stephen Mack Context triple: [Lucy Mack Smith, sibling, Stephen Mack]
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A.
Stephen Nicol
Stephen Nicol is a former Scottish professional footballer and versatile defender best known for his successful spell at Liverpool FC in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Steve Mackey
Steve Mackey is an English musician and record producer best known as the longtime bassist of the band Pulp and for his work with various alternative and pop artists.
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C.
Scott McPherson
Scott McPherson was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his acclaimed stage play "Marvin's Room," which was later adapted into a feature film.
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D.
Stephen Peck
Stephen Peck is an American veteran and longtime advocate for homeless veterans who serves as president and CEO of U.S.VETS, a leading nonprofit dedicated to ending veteran homelessness.
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E.
Stephen Evans
Stephen Evans is a British film producer best known for his work on acclaimed literary and period adaptations, including the 1993 film "Much Ado About Nothing."
- 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: Stephen Mack Target entity description: Stephen Mack was an early 19th-century American businessman and older brother of Lucy Mack Smith, making him the maternal uncle of Latter-day Saint founder Joseph Smith.
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A.
Stephen Nicol
Stephen Nicol is a former Scottish professional footballer and versatile defender best known for his successful spell at Liverpool FC in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Steve Mackey
Steve Mackey is an English musician and record producer best known as the longtime bassist of the band Pulp and for his work with various alternative and pop artists.
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C.
Scott McPherson
Scott McPherson was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his acclaimed stage play "Marvin's Room," which was later adapted into a feature film.
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D.
Stephen Peck
Stephen Peck is an American veteran and longtime advocate for homeless veterans who serves as president and CEO of U.S.VETS, a leading nonprofit dedicated to ending veteran homelessness.
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E.
Stephen Evans
Stephen Evans is a British secularist campaigner who serves as chair of the National Secular Society, advocating for the separation of religion and state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American businessman
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person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Mack ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the maternal uncle of Joseph Smith
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being the older brother of Lucy Mack Smith ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| relative | Joseph Smith ⓘ |
| sibling | Lucy Mack Smith ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| uncleOf | Joseph Smith ⓘ |
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: Stephen Mack Description of subject: Stephen Mack was an early 19th-century American businessman and older brother of Lucy Mack Smith, making him the maternal uncle of Latter-day Saint founder Joseph Smith.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.