Catherine McDougall
E380115
Catherine McDougall is a person known primarily as the child of Alexander McDougall.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Catherine McDougall canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3364584 — 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: Catherine McDougall Context triple: [Alexander McDougall, parentOf, Catherine McDougall]
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A.
Catherine Farrell
Catherine Farrell is known as the sister of Irish actor Colin Farrell.
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B.
Catherine Smith
Catherine Smith was the wife of influential Reformed theologian and biblical scholar Geerhardus Vos.
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C.
Catherine Callaghan
Catherine Callaghan was a linguist known for her influential work on Native American languages, particularly her research on and classification of the Utian language family.
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D.
Catherine Stihler
Catherine Stihler is a Scottish former Labour MEP and political figure who has gone on to lead major digital and open knowledge organizations.
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E.
Catherine Devine McConnell
Catherine Devine McConnell was the first wife of American actor and author Sterling Hayden, with whom she had several children before their eventual divorce.
- 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: Catherine McDougall Target entity description: Catherine McDougall is a person known primarily as the child of Alexander McDougall.
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A.
Catherine Farrell
Catherine Farrell is known as the sister of Irish actor Colin Farrell.
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B.
Catherine Smith
Catherine Smith was the wife of influential Reformed theologian and biblical scholar Geerhardus Vos.
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C.
Catherine Callaghan
Catherine Callaghan was a linguist known for her influential work on Native American languages, particularly her research on and classification of the Utian language family.
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D.
Catherine Stihler
Catherine Stihler is a Scottish former Labour MEP and political figure who has gone on to lead major digital and open knowledge organizations.
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E.
Catherine Devine McConnell
Catherine Devine McConnell was the first wife of American actor and author Sterling Hayden, with whom she had several children before their eventual divorce.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| childOf | Alexander McDougall ⓘ |
| familyName |
MacDougall
ⓘ
surface form:
McDougall
|
| givenName | Catherine ⓘ |
| hasChild | Catherine McDougall self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Catherine McDougall Description of subject: Catherine McDougall is a person known primarily as the child of Alexander McDougall.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alexander McDougall