McDermott
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McDermott is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as business, politics, sports, and the arts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McDermott canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T705680 — 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: McDermott Context triple: [Eugene McDermott, familyName, McDermott]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
MacDouglas
MacDouglas is a Scottish surname variant of Douglas, traditionally associated with clans and families of Scottish heritage.
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D.
Dempsey
Dempsey is a surname most notably associated with British Army General Sir Miles Dempsey, a senior commander in World War II.
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E.
Mulally
Mulally is the surname of Alan Mulally, the American engineer and former CEO known for leading major turnarounds at Boeing and Ford Motor Company.
- 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: McDermott Target entity description: McDermott is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as business, politics, sports, and the arts.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
MacDouglas
MacDouglas is a Scottish surname variant of Douglas, traditionally associated with clans and families of Scottish heritage.
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D.
Dempsey
Dempsey is a surname most notably associated with British Army General Sir Miles Dempsey, a senior commander in World War II.
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E.
Mulally
Mulally is the surname of Alan Mulally, the American engineer and former CEO known for leading major turnarounds at Boeing and Ford Motor Company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: McDermott Description of subject: McDermott is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as business, politics, sports, and the arts.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ryan McDermott (singer-songwriter)