Duncan MacRae
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Duncan MacRae is a notable individual distinguished by achievements significant enough to be historically or culturally recognized under the surname MacRae.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duncan Macrae | 5 |
| Duncan MacRae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10810609 — 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: Duncan MacRae Context triple: [MacRae, hasNotableBearer, Duncan MacRae]
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A.
Duncan Makenzie
Duncan Makenzie is the protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel "Imperial Earth," a third-generation colonist from Titan who becomes a key political and cultural bridge between Saturn’s moon and Earth.
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B.
Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell is a British journalist and writer best known for his investigative reporting and his long-term marriage to actress Julie Christie.
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C.
Ewen MacIntosh
Ewen MacIntosh is a British actor and comedian best known for playing the deadpan accountant Keith Bishop in the original UK version of "The Office."
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D.
Alastair Duncan
Alastair Duncan is a Scottish actor and voice actor known for his work in film, television, and video games.
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E.
Mac McLeod
Mac McLeod is a dedicated labor organizer and central figure in John Steinbeck’s novel "In Dubious Battle," known for his strategic leadership in a fruit pickers’ strike.
- 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: Duncan MacRae Target entity description: Duncan MacRae is a notable individual distinguished by achievements significant enough to be historically or culturally recognized under the surname MacRae.
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A.
Duncan Makenzie
Duncan Makenzie is the protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel "Imperial Earth," a third-generation colonist from Titan who becomes a key political and cultural bridge between Saturn’s moon and Earth.
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B.
Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell is a British journalist and writer best known for his investigative reporting and his long-term marriage to actress Julie Christie.
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C.
Ewen MacIntosh
Ewen MacIntosh is a British actor and comedian best known for playing the deadpan accountant Keith Bishop in the original UK version of "The Office."
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D.
Alastair Duncan
Alastair Duncan is a Scottish actor and voice actor known for his work in film, television, and video games.
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E.
Mac McLeod
Mac McLeod is a dedicated labor organizer and central figure in John Steinbeck’s novel "In Dubious Battle," known for his strategic leadership in a fruit pickers’ strike.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (3)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| familyName | MacRae ⓘ |
| givenName | Duncan ⓘ |
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: Duncan MacRae Description of subject: Duncan MacRae is a notable individual distinguished by achievements significant enough to be historically or culturally recognized under the surname MacRae.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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