James McCartney Sr. (father)
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James McCartney Sr. was a British cotton salesman and amateur musician best known as the father of Beatles bassist and songwriter Paul McCartney.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James McCartney Sr. | 8 |
| James McCartney Sr. (father) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T342004 — 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: James McCartney Sr. (father) Context triple: [Paul McCartney, parent, James McCartney Sr. (father)]
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A.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as a member of The Beatles and one of the most successful and influential musicians in popular music history.
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B.
John Lennon
John Lennon was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist best known as a founding member of the Beatles.
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C.
Barry Gibb
Barry Gibb is a British singer, songwriter, and producer best known as the co-founder and frontman of the Bee Gees, one of the most successful pop groups in history.
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D.
Michael Chaplin
Michael Chaplin is an English actor and writer best known as one of the sons of legendary filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.
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E.
Larry Mullen Jr.
Larry Mullen Jr. is an Irish musician best known as the founding drummer of the rock band U2, recognized for his precise, martial-influenced drumming style.
- 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: James McCartney Sr. (father) Target entity description: James McCartney Sr. was a British cotton salesman and amateur musician best known as the father of Beatles bassist and songwriter Paul McCartney.
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A.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as a member of The Beatles and one of the most successful and influential musicians in popular music history.
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B.
John Lennon
John Lennon was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist best known as a founding member of the Beatles.
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C.
Barry Gibb
Barry Gibb is a British singer, songwriter, and producer best known as the co-founder and frontman of the Bee Gees, one of the most successful pop groups in history.
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D.
Michael Chaplin
Michael Chaplin is an English actor and writer best known as one of the sons of legendary filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.
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E.
Larry Mullen Jr.
Larry Mullen Jr. is an Irish musician best known as the founding drummer of the rock band U2, recognized for his precise, martial-influenced drumming style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child |
Michael McCartney
ⓘ
Paul McCartney ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | British subject ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish descent ⓘ |
| familyName |
McCartney family
ⓘ
surface form:
McCartney
|
| fatherOf |
Michael McCartney
ⓘ
Paul McCartney ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| instrument |
piano
ⓘ
trumpet ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the father of Paul McCartney
ⓘ
leading a local jazz band in Liverpool ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedDuring | 20th century ⓘ |
| memberOf | Jim Mac's Jazz Band ⓘ |
| name |
James McCartney Sr. (father)
self-link
ⓘ
surface form:
James McCartney Sr.
|
| notableRelative |
Mary McCartney
ⓘ
surface form:
Mary McCartney (wife)
Michael McCartney ⓘ Paul McCartney ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Masked Troubadour (radio performance name) ⓘ |
| occupation |
amateur musician
ⓘ
cotton salesman ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Liverpool ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| residence | Liverpool ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary McCartney (née Mohin) ⓘ |
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: James McCartney Sr. (father) Description of subject: James McCartney Sr. was a British cotton salesman and amateur musician best known as the father of Beatles bassist and songwriter Paul McCartney.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
James McCartney Sr.
this entity surface form:
James McCartney Sr.
subject surface form:
The Masked Troubadour
this entity surface form:
James McCartney Sr.
subject surface form:
The Masked Troubadour
this entity surface form:
James McCartney Sr.
subject surface form:
The Masked Troubadour
this entity surface form:
James McCartney Sr.
this entity surface form:
James McCartney Sr.
this entity surface form:
James McCartney Sr.
this entity surface form:
James McCartney Sr.
this entity surface form:
James McCartney Sr.