MacMaster
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MacMaster is a Scottish-origin surname notably associated with Canadian Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MacMaster canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7727591 — 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: MacMaster Context triple: [Natalie MacMaster, familyName, MacMaster]
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A.
The MAC
The MAC is a contemporary arts venue in Belfast, Northern Ireland, known for hosting visual art exhibitions, theatre performances, and other cultural events.
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B.
MacVicar
MacVicar is a Scottish-origin surname associated with individuals such as American actress Martha Vickers (born Martha MacVicar).
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C.
Incessant Mace
Incessant Mace is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden from their debut studio album, Ultramega OK.
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D.
Mackie
Mackie is the surname of American rapper Remy Ma, known for her influential role in East Coast hip hop and appearances on reality television.
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E.
Mastro
Mastro is an Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) system that enables querying relational data sources through an ontology layer using high-level semantic queries.
- 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: MacMaster Target entity description: MacMaster is a Scottish-origin surname notably associated with Canadian Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster.
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A.
The MAC
The MAC is a contemporary arts venue in Belfast, Northern Ireland, known for hosting visual art exhibitions, theatre performances, and other cultural events.
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B.
MacVicar
MacVicar is a Scottish-origin surname associated with individuals such as American actress Martha Vickers (born Martha MacVicar).
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C.
Incessant Mace
Incessant Mace is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden from their debut studio album, Ultramega OK.
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D.
Mackie
Mackie is the surname of American rapper Remy Ma, known for her influential role in East Coast hip hop and appearances on reality television.
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E.
Mastro
Mastro is an Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) system that enables querying relational data sources through an ontology layer using high-level semantic queries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fiddler
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ surname ⓘ violinist ⓘ |
| hasActiveYearsStartTime | 1980s ⓘ |
| hasAwardReceived |
East Coast Music Award
NERFINISHED
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Juno Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfCitizenship | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Scottish Canadian ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName |
MacMaster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MacMaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Natalie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Scottish Gaelic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Natalie MacMaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork |
Blueprint
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
In My Hands NERFINISHED ⓘ My Roots Are Showing NERFINISHED ⓘ No Boundaries NERFINISHED ⓘ One ⓘ Yours Truly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfChildren | 7 ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
composer
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music producer ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| hasPlaceOfBirth | Inverness County, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPlaceOfOrigin |
Cape Breton Island
NERFINISHED
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Cape Breton Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegionOfOrigin | Scottish Highlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Buddy MacMaster
NERFINISHED
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Glenn Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse |
Donnell Leahy
NERFINISHED
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Natalie MacMaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant | McMaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
Cape Breton fiddle music
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Cape Breton-style fiddling ⓘ energetic live performances ⓘ |
| playsGenre |
Cape Breton fiddle music
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Celtic music ⓘ folk music ⓘ |
| playsInstrument |
fiddle
ⓘ
violin ⓘ |
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: MacMaster Description of subject: MacMaster is a Scottish-origin surname notably associated with Canadian Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.