Alexander MacRae
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Alexander MacRae was an American lawyer and public official best known for serving as a prosecutor in the early 19th century, including in the high-profile treason trial of Aaron Burr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander MacRae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10554117 — 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: Alexander MacRae Context triple: [Aaron Burr treason trial, hasProsecutor, Alexander MacRae]
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A.
Ian Macpherson
Ian Macpherson is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
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B.
Alexander Muir
Alexander Muir was a Scottish-born Canadian songwriter, poet, and schoolteacher best known for composing the patriotic song "The Maple Leaf Forever."
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C.
Jim Macpherson
Jim Macpherson is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Breeders.
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D.
A. W. McConnachie
A. W. McConnachie is an astronomer known for research on nearby galaxies and the structure of the Local Group.
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E.
John MacLeod
John MacLeod is known as the husband of Prudence Murdoch, the eldest daughter of media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
- 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: Alexander MacRae Target entity description: Alexander MacRae was an American lawyer and public official best known for serving as a prosecutor in the early 19th century, including in the high-profile treason trial of Aaron Burr.
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A.
Ian Macpherson
Ian Macpherson is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
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B.
Alexander Muir
Alexander Muir was a Scottish-born Canadian songwriter, poet, and schoolteacher best known for composing the patriotic song "The Maple Leaf Forever."
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C.
Jim Macpherson
Jim Macpherson is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Breeders.
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D.
A. W. McConnachie
A. W. McConnachie is an astronomer known for research on nearby galaxies and the structure of the Local Group.
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E.
John MacLeod
John MacLeod is known as the husband of Prudence Murdoch, the eldest daughter of media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States federal legal system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| date | early 19th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
criminal law
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law ⓘ |
| genre | treason prosecution ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as a prosecutor in a high-profile treason case against Aaron Burr ⓘ |
| notableWork | prosecution in the treason trial of Aaron Burr ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
prosecutor ⓘ public official ⓘ |
| participatedIn | treason trial of Aaron Burr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | prosecutor in federal treason proceedings ⓘ |
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: Alexander MacRae Description of subject: Alexander MacRae was an American lawyer and public official best known for serving as a prosecutor in the early 19th century, including in the high-profile treason trial of Aaron Burr.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.