McNair
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American football player
NASA astronaut
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astronaut
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human
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surname
tennis player
McNair is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including American physicist and NASA astronaut Ronald McNair.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McNair canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1835931 — 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: McNair Context triple: [Ronald McNair, familyName, McNair]
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A.
McCauley
McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
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B.
Carmichael
Carmichael is a suburban community in California known as a residential area within the greater Sacramento metropolitan region.
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C.
Luther Hill
Luther Hill is an editor associated with the publication or project titled "Life."
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D.
Preston Bradley Hall
Preston Bradley Hall is an ornate, historic domed rotunda in Chicago renowned for its grand architecture and one of the world’s largest Tiffany stained-glass domes.
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E.
McClymonds
McClymonds is a public high school in West Oakland, California, known for its strong athletic tradition and deep roots in the local community.
- 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: McNair Target entity description: McNair is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including American physicist and NASA astronaut Ronald McNair.
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A.
McCauley
McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
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B.
Carmichael
Carmichael is a suburban community in California known as a residential area within the greater Sacramento metropolitan region.
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C.
Luther Hill
Luther Hill is an editor associated with the publication or project titled "Life."
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D.
Preston Bradley Hall
Preston Bradley Hall is an ornate, historic domed rotunda in Chicago renowned for its grand architecture and one of the world’s largest Tiffany stained-glass domes.
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E.
McClymonds
McClymonds is a public high school in West Oakland, California, known for its strong athletic tradition and deep roots in the local community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: McNair Description of subject: McNair is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including American physicist and NASA astronaut Ronald McNair.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
McNair (lunar crater)
subject surface form:
Ronald McNair
subject surface form:
Steve McNair
subject surface form:
John McNair
subject surface form:
Robert Evander McNair
subject surface form:
Margaret McNair Stokes
subject surface form:
Ruth McNair