McCulloch
E211899
McCulloch is a Scottish surname borne by various notable figures in fields such as economics, politics, and the arts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McCulloch canonical | 3 |
| MacCulloch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1908885 — 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: McCulloch Context triple: [John Ramsay McCulloch, familyName, McCulloch]
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A.
McCulloch v. Maryland
McCulloch v. Maryland is an 1819 U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed federal supremacy over the states and upheld the implied powers of Congress under the Constitution.
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B.
Second Bank of the United States
The Second Bank of the United States was a federally chartered national bank (1816–1836) that became a central focus of early American financial policy and political conflict, particularly during Andrew Jackson’s presidency.
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C.
Gibbons v. Ogden
Gibbons v. Ogden was an 1824 U.S. Supreme Court case that broadly affirmed federal power over interstate commerce, significantly strengthening national authority relative to the states.
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D.
Slaughter-House Cases
The Slaughter-House Cases were an 1873 U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowly interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment’s Privileges or Immunities Clause, significantly limiting its protection of civil rights against state infringement.
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E.
United States v. Butler
United States v. Butler was a 1936 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down key provisions of the New Deal’s Agricultural Adjustment Act as an unconstitutional use of federal taxing and spending power.
- 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: McCulloch Target entity description: McCulloch is a Scottish surname borne by various notable figures in fields such as economics, politics, and the arts.
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A.
McCulloch v. Maryland
McCulloch v. Maryland is an 1819 U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed federal supremacy over the states and upheld the implied powers of Congress under the Constitution.
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B.
Second Bank of the United States
The Second Bank of the United States was a federally chartered national bank (1816–1836) that became a central focus of early American financial policy and political conflict, particularly during Andrew Jackson’s presidency.
-
C.
Gibbons v. Ogden
Gibbons v. Ogden was an 1824 U.S. Supreme Court case that broadly affirmed federal power over interstate commerce, significantly strengthening national authority relative to the states.
-
D.
Slaughter-House Cases
The Slaughter-House Cases were an 1873 U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowly interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment’s Privileges or Immunities Clause, significantly limiting its protection of civil rights against state infringement.
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E.
United States v. Butler
United States v. Butler was a 1936 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down key provisions of the New Deal’s Agricultural Adjustment Act as an unconstitutional use of federal taxing and spending power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish surname
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family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| fieldOfNotableBearers |
arts
ⓘ
economics ⓘ literature ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ politics ⓘ public administration ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Anglicised Scottish Gaelic-language surnames
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Patronymic surnames ⓘ Scottish surnames ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alan McCulloch
ⓘ
Derek McCulloch ⓘ Ellen McCulloch ⓘ Hugh McCulloch ⓘ J. R. McCulloch ⓘ James McCulloch ⓘ
surface form:
James Ramsay McCulloch
Ken McCulloch ⓘ Roscoe C. McCulloch NERFINISHED ⓘ Warren S. McCulloch ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
MacCullagh
ⓘ
McCulloch self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
MacCulloch
McCullough ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Scots
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Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: McCulloch Description of subject: McCulloch is a Scottish surname borne by various notable figures in fields such as economics, politics, and the arts.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
MacCulloch