Jock D. Mackinlay
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Jock D. Mackinlay is a computer scientist and pioneer in information visualization, known for his work on automated graphical presentation and interactive data analysis tools.
All labels observed (1)
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| Jock D. Mackinlay canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10602355 — 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: Jock D. Mackinlay Context triple: [Stuart K. Card, coAuthor, Jock D. Mackinlay]
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A.
James Macdowall
James Macdowall was a Scottish figure of the late 18th to early 19th century known primarily through his familial connection as the father-in-law of the prominent judge and essayist Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn.
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B.
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
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C.
Norman MacLeod
Norman MacLeod is a Scottish name borne by several notable figures, including clergymen, writers, and clan leaders prominent in 19th-century Scotland.
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D.
James Maclehose
James Maclehose was the husband of Agnes Maclehose, the 18th-century Scottish woman known for her celebrated correspondence with poet Robert Burns.
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E.
Angus MacPhail
Angus MacPhail was a British screenwriter known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock and for helping popularize the concept of the "MacGuffin" in film storytelling.
- 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: Jock D. Mackinlay Target entity description: Jock D. Mackinlay is a computer scientist and pioneer in information visualization, known for his work on automated graphical presentation and interactive data analysis tools.
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A.
James Macdowall
James Macdowall was a Scottish figure of the late 18th to early 19th century known primarily through his familial connection as the father-in-law of the prominent judge and essayist Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn.
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B.
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
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C.
Norman MacLeod
Norman MacLeod is a Scottish name borne by several notable figures, including clergymen, writers, and clan leaders prominent in 19th-century Scotland.
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D.
James Maclehose
James Maclehose was the husband of Agnes Maclehose, the 18th-century Scottish woman known for her celebrated correspondence with poet Robert Burns.
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E.
Angus MacPhail
Angus MacPhail was a British screenwriter known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock and for helping popularize the concept of the "MacGuffin" in film storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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pioneer in information visualization ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| areaOfExpertise |
automated design of graphics
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interactive data exploration ⓘ visual representation of data ⓘ |
| contribution | helped establish information visualization as a research field ⓘ |
| field |
data visualization
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human–computer interaction ⓘ information visualization ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
automatic selection of graphical encodings
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user interfaces for data analysis ⓘ visualization of quantitative data ⓘ |
| hasRole |
developer of interactive visualization tools
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pioneer of information visualization techniques ⓘ |
| influencedField |
data visualization tools
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information visualization ⓘ visual analytics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
automated graphical presentation
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information visualization research ⓘ interactive data analysis tools ⓘ |
| notableWork |
research on automatic design of graphical presentations
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work on interactive visualization systems ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
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research scientist ⓘ |
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: Jock D. Mackinlay Description of subject: Jock D. Mackinlay is a computer scientist and pioneer in information visualization, known for his work on automated graphical presentation and interactive data analysis tools.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.