McGuire
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McGuire is a surname most notably associated with American actress Dorothy McGuire, known for her work in classic Hollywood films.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T658221 — 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: McGuire Context triple: [Dorothy McGuire, familyName, McGuire]
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A.
Callaghan
Callaghan is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals in politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Callahan
Callahan is a surname most notably associated with American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, known for his introspective and minimalist folk music.
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C.
Mitchell
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software designer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program.
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D.
Mitchell
Mitchell is a common English-language surname of Scottish and English origin, borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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E.
McFeely
McFeely is the middle name of beloved American children's television host Fred Rogers, famously known as Mister Rogers.
- 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: McGuire Target entity description: McGuire is a surname most notably associated with American actress Dorothy McGuire, known for her work in classic Hollywood films.
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A.
Callaghan
Callaghan is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals in politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Callahan
Callahan is a surname most notably associated with American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, known for his introspective and minimalist folk music.
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C.
Mitchell
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software designer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program.
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D.
Mitchell
Mitchell is a common English-language surname of Scottish and English origin, borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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E.
McFeely
McFeely is the middle name of beloved American children's television host Fred Rogers, famously known as Mister Rogers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | McGuire self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Dorothy McGuire ⓘ |
| notableFor | classic Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation | film actress ⓘ |
| variantOf | Maguire ⓘ |
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: McGuire Description of subject: McGuire is a surname most notably associated with American actress Dorothy McGuire, known for her work in classic Hollywood films.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dorothy McGuire
this entity surface form:
MacGuire