Sid McMath
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Sid McMath was a reform-minded Democratic politician who served as governor of Arkansas in the late 1940s and early 1950s, known for his support of civil rights and infrastructure development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sid McMath canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6881459 — 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: Sid McMath Context triple: [Francis Cherry, hasPredecessor, Sid McMath]
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A.
Jack McVea
Jack McVea was an American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist and bandleader best known for his work in the 1940s jump blues scene and for co-writing the hit song "Open the Door, Richard."
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B.
Sam McCloud
Sam McCloud is a fictional deputy marshal from Taos, New Mexico, who stars as a fish-out-of-water lawman solving crimes in New York City in the 1970s television series "McCloud."
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C.
Stephen Rojack
Stephen Rojack is the psychologically tormented, war-hero-turned-TV-personality at the center of Norman Mailer’s novel "An American Dream," whose violent actions and moral unraveling drive the book’s exploration of guilt, power, and existential crisis.
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D.
Max Drummey
Max Drummey is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-founder of the indie pop band Chester French.
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E.
Booger McFarland
Booger McFarland is a former NFL defensive tackle who became a prominent American football television analyst and color commentator.
- 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: Sid McMath Target entity description: Sid McMath was a reform-minded Democratic politician who served as governor of Arkansas in the late 1940s and early 1950s, known for his support of civil rights and infrastructure development.
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A.
Jack McVea
Jack McVea was an American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist and bandleader best known for his work in the 1940s jump blues scene and for co-writing the hit song "Open the Door, Richard."
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B.
Sam McCloud
Sam McCloud is a fictional deputy marshal from Taos, New Mexico, who stars as a fish-out-of-water lawman solving crimes in New York City in the 1970s television series "McCloud."
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C.
Stephen Rojack
Stephen Rojack is the psychologically tormented, war-hero-turned-TV-personality at the center of Norman Mailer’s novel "An American Dream," whose violent actions and moral unraveling drive the book’s exploration of guilt, power, and existential crisis.
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D.
Max Drummey
Max Drummey is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-founder of the indie pop band Chester French.
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E.
Booger McFarland
Booger McFarland is a former NFL defensive tackle who became a prominent American football television analyst and color commentator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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politician ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Bronze Star Medal
ⓘ
Purple Heart ⓘ Silver Star ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Henderson State Teachers College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Arkansas School of Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | McMath NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil rights policy
ⓘ
criminal law ⓘ public infrastructure policy ⓘ |
| genre | trial law ⓘ |
| givenName | Sidney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix |
Colonel
ⓘ
Governor ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
public servant
ⓘ
trial attorney ⓘ |
| knownFor |
infrastructure development in Arkansas
ⓘ
opposition to segregationist politics ⓘ support for civil rights ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| movement | reform politics in Arkansas ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Highway and rural electrification programs in Arkansas
ⓘ
Support for civil rights in Arkansas politics ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | United States Senate seat from Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opponent | segregationist political establishment in Arkansas ⓘ |
| partOf | liberal wing of the Arkansas Democratic Party ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Columbia County, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Little Rock, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Arkansas
ⓘ
Prosecuting Attorney of the Eighth Judicial District of Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulaski County Judge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| residence | Little Rock, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Arkansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Little Rock, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sid McMath Description of subject: Sid McMath was a reform-minded Democratic politician who served as governor of Arkansas in the late 1940s and early 1950s, known for his support of civil rights and infrastructure development.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.