Fred McNair
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Fred McNair is a former American professional tennis player known for his success in doubles, including winning the 1976 French Open men's doubles title and reaching the world No. 1 doubles ranking.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fred McNair canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10037886 — 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: Fred McNair Context triple: [McNair, hasNotableBearer, Fred McNair]
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A.
John A. Lejeune
John A. Lejeune was a highly distinguished United States Marine Corps general who served as the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps and is often regarded as one of its most important early leaders.
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B.
Kermit Brashear
Kermit Brashear is an American attorney and former Nebraska state senator who served as Speaker of the Nebraska Legislature.
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C.
J. F. Lawton
J. F. Lawton is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known for writing the hit romantic comedy "Pretty Woman" and several successful action films.
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D.
General Walter Walker
General Walter Walker was a British Army officer best known for his leadership in counter-insurgency campaigns during the mid-20th century, particularly in Southeast Asia.
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E.
James A. Van Fleet
James A. Van Fleet was a prominent U.S. Army general best known for his leadership during the Korean War and his distinguished military service in both World Wars.
- 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: Fred McNair Target entity description: Fred McNair is a former American professional tennis player known for his success in doubles, including winning the 1976 French Open men's doubles title and reaching the world No. 1 doubles ranking.
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A.
John A. Lejeune
John A. Lejeune was a highly distinguished United States Marine Corps general who served as the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps and is often regarded as one of its most important early leaders.
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B.
Kermit Brashear
Kermit Brashear is an American attorney and former Nebraska state senator who served as Speaker of the Nebraska Legislature.
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C.
J. F. Lawton
J. F. Lawton is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known for writing the hit romantic comedy "Pretty Woman" and several successful action films.
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D.
General Walter Walker
General Walter Walker was a British Army officer best known for his leadership in counter-insurgency campaigns during the mid-20th century, particularly in Southeast Asia.
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E.
James A. Van Fleet
James A. Van Fleet was a prominent U.S. Army general best known for his leadership during the Korean War and his distinguished military service in both World Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American tennis player
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human ⓘ tennis player ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| discipline |
men’s doubles
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singles ⓘ |
| doublesPartner | Sherwood Stewart ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandSlamTitle | 1976 French Open men’s doubles ⓘ |
| highestDoublesRanking | world No. 1 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
doubles tennis
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reaching world No. 1 in doubles ⓘ winning the 1976 French Open men’s doubles title ⓘ |
| memberOf | Association of Tennis Professionals ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
French Open men’s doubles champion
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world No. 1 doubles ranking ⓘ |
| occupation |
professional athlete
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tennis player ⓘ |
| playsStyle | right-handed ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sport | tennis ⓘ |
| wonTournamentWithPartner | Sherwood Stewart ⓘ |
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: Fred McNair Description of subject: Fred McNair is a former American professional tennis player known for his success in doubles, including winning the 1976 French Open men's doubles title and reaching the world No. 1 doubles ranking.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.