McVicker
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McVicker is a surname most notably associated with Mary McVicker Booth, an American actress and the second wife of actor Edwin Booth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McVicker canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2223774 — 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: McVicker Context triple: [Mary McVicker Booth, familyName, McVicker]
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A.
Bridgman
Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
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B.
Oberholtzer
Oberholtzer is a German-origin surname, often associated with Mennonite and Amish families, that serves as a variant of the Overholt family name.
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C.
Briggs
Briggs is a surname most prominently associated with Lance Briggs, a former NFL linebacker best known for his career with the Chicago Bears.
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D.
Thirlby
Thirlby is the surname of Olivia Thirlby, an American actress known for roles in films such as "Juno" and "Dredd."
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E.
McIldowie
McIldowie is a relatively uncommon Scottish-origin surname associated with individuals such as Mr Hudson.
- 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: McVicker Target entity description: McVicker is a surname most notably associated with Mary McVicker Booth, an American actress and the second wife of actor Edwin Booth.
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A.
Bridgman
Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
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B.
Oberholtzer
Oberholtzer is a German-origin surname, often associated with Mennonite and Amish families, that serves as a variant of the Overholt family name.
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C.
Briggs
Briggs is a surname most prominently associated with Lance Briggs, a former NFL linebacker best known for his career with the Chicago Bears.
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D.
Thirlby
Thirlby is the surname of Olivia Thirlby, an American actress known for roles in films such as "Juno" and "Dredd."
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E.
McIldowie
McIldowie is a relatively uncommon Scottish-origin surname associated with individuals such as Mr Hudson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
actress ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Mary McVicker Booth ⓘ |
| hasSurname | McVicker self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
actress ⓘ |
| positionInSpouseSequence | second wife of Edwin Booth ⓘ |
| spouse |
Edwin Booth
ⓘ
Mary McVicker Booth ⓘ |
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: McVicker Description of subject: McVicker is a surname most notably associated with Mary McVicker Booth, an American actress and the second wife of actor Edwin Booth.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mary McVicker Booth