Tommy MacRae
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Tommy MacRae is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the MacRae surname.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tommy MacRae canonical | 2 |
| Tommy McRae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10810635 — 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: Tommy MacRae Context triple: [MacRae, hasNotableBearer, Tommy MacRae]
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A.
Tom MacRae
Tom MacRae is a British television writer and playwright best known for his work on Doctor Who and the stage musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.
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B.
Charlie MacLean
Charlie MacLean is a television writer and producer best known for creating the crime drama series "City on a Hill."
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C.
Ricky Ross
Ricky Ross is a Scottish singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the pop-rock band Deacon Blue.
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D.
Albert Gordon MacRae
Albert Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in classic Hollywood musicals such as "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."
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E.
Whistling Tom McHugh
Whistling Tom McHugh is a musician best known as a member of the Celtic rock band O'Malley's March.
- 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: Tommy MacRae Target entity description: Tommy MacRae is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the MacRae surname.
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A.
Tom MacRae
Tom MacRae is a British television writer and playwright best known for his work on Doctor Who and the stage musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.
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B.
Charlie MacLean
Charlie MacLean is a television writer and producer best known for creating the crime drama series "City on a Hill."
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C.
Ricky Ross
Ricky Ross is a Scottish singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the pop-rock band Deacon Blue.
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D.
Albert Gordon MacRae
Albert Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in classic Hollywood musicals such as "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."
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E.
Whistling Tom McHugh
Whistling Tom McHugh is a musician best known as a member of the Celtic rock band O'Malley's March.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Tommy ⓘ |
| hasSurname | MacRae ⓘ |
| name | Tommy MacRae ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a prominent bearer of the MacRae surname ⓘ |
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: Tommy MacRae Description of subject: Tommy MacRae is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the MacRae surname.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tommy MacRae