Margaret MacMillan
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Margaret MacMillan is a Canadian historian renowned for her influential works on international relations and the history of war and diplomacy, including "Paris 1919" and "The War That Ended Peace."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Margaret MacMillan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2198118 — 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: Margaret MacMillan Context triple: [Duff Cooper Prize, notableWinner, Margaret MacMillan]
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A.
Kathleen Middlekauff
Kathleen Middlekauff is an American academic and former spouse of investigative journalist and author Bob Woodward.
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B.
Rachel Ward
Rachel Ward is a mathematician known for her influential research in applied and computational mathematics, including work in areas such as optimization and data science.
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C.
Eileen Power
Eileen Power was a prominent British economic historian and medievalist known for her influential work on medieval society, trade, and women's history.
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D.
Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American biographer and essayist known for acclaimed works on figures such as Cleopatra, Vera Nabokov, and the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Anne Leon
Anne Leon is known as the spouse of English character actor Michael Gough, famed for his role as Alfred in the Batman film series.
- 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: Margaret MacMillan Target entity description: Margaret MacMillan is a Canadian historian renowned for her influential works on international relations and the history of war and diplomacy, including "Paris 1919" and "The War That Ended Peace."
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A.
Kathleen Middlekauff
Kathleen Middlekauff is an American academic and former spouse of investigative journalist and author Bob Woodward.
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B.
Rachel Ward
Rachel Ward is a mathematician known for her influential research in applied and computational mathematics, including work in areas such as optimization and data science.
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C.
Eileen Power
Eileen Power was a prominent British economic historian and medievalist known for her influential work on medieval society, trade, and women's history.
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D.
Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American biographer and essayist known for acclaimed works on figures such as Cleopatra, Vera Nabokov, and the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Anne Leon
Anne Leon is known as the spouse of English character actor Michael Gough, famed for his role as Alfred in the Batman film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian person
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academic ⓘ author ⓘ historian ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts
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Doctor of Philosophy ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Duff Cooper Prize
ⓘ
Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction ⓘ
surface form:
Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction
Hessell-Tiltman Prize ⓘ Samuel Johnson Prize ⓘ
surface form:
Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-12-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Oxford
ⓘ
University of Toronto ⓘ |
| employer |
Toronto Metropolitan University
ⓘ
surface form:
Ryerson University
St Antony’s College, Oxford ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ University of Toronto ⓘ |
| familyName |
McMillan
ⓘ
surface form:
MacMillan
|
| fieldOfWork |
diplomatic history
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history ⓘ international relations ⓘ military history ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
historical writing
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Margaret ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Order of Canada ⓘ |
| name | Margaret MacMillan self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
research on the origins of the First World War
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scholarship on the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
History’s People: Personalities and the Past
ⓘ
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World ⓘ Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World ⓘ Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War ⓘ The Uses and Abuses of History ⓘ The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 ⓘ War: How Conflict Shaped Us ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian
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university professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Toronto
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surface form:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
| positionHeld |
Chancellor of the University of St Andrews
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professor of history at the University of Toronto ⓘ professor of international history at the University of Oxford ⓘ provost of Trinity College, University of Toronto ⓘ visiting professor at the London School of Economics ⓘ warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Margaret MacMillan Description of subject: Margaret MacMillan is a Canadian historian renowned for her influential works on international relations and the history of war and diplomacy, including "Paris 1919" and "The War That Ended Peace."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.