MacMahon
E402554
MacMahon is a French noble family name most prominently associated with Patrice de MacMahon, a 19th-century Marshal of France and President of the French Third Republic.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MacMahon canonical | 6 |
| de MacMahon | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3952598 — 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: MacMahon Context triple: [Patrice de MacMahon, familyName, MacMahon]
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A.
Muirhead
Muirhead is a small village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, situated near Glasgow and known primarily as a residential commuter community.
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B.
Muirhead
Muirhead is a small village in the Angus council area of Scotland, known for its residential character and proximity to Dundee.
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C.
Hassler
Hassler Whitney was an influential American mathematician known for his foundational work in differential topology and manifold theory.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: MacMahon Target entity description: MacMahon is a French noble family name most prominently associated with Patrice de MacMahon, a 19th-century Marshal of France and President of the French Third Republic.
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A.
Muirhead
Muirhead is a small village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, situated near Glasgow and known primarily as a residential commuter community.
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B.
Muirhead
Muirhead is a small village in the Angus council area of Scotland, known for its residential character and proximity to Dundee.
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C.
Hassler
Hassler Whitney was an influential American mathematician known for his foundational work in differential topology and manifold theory.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: MacMahon Description of subject: MacMahon is a French noble family name most prominently associated with Patrice de MacMahon, a 19th-century Marshal of France and President of the French Third Republic.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
de MacMahon
subject surface form:
Patrice de MacMahon
subject surface form:
Patrice de MacMahon
this entity surface form:
de MacMahon