MacTavish
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MacTavish is the surname of John "Soap" MacTavish, a prominent Scottish special forces character in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| MacTavish canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11540830 — 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: MacTavish Context triple: [Soap MacTavish, familyName, MacTavish]
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A.
Sir Lachlan Maclean
Sir Lachlan Maclean is a Scottish clan chief of the historic Clan Maclean, traditionally associated with the Isle of Mull and the ancestral seat at Duart Castle.
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B.
Malcolm MacLeod
Malcolm MacLeod was a Scottish crofter from the Isle of Lewis and the father of Mary Anne MacLeod, who later became the mother of Donald Trump.
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C.
Moray Callum
Moray Callum is a Scottish automotive designer best known for his influential work at Ford, where he helped shape the design language of numerous key models in the 2000s and 2010s.
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D.
Scotty Highlander
Scotty Highlander is the Scottish terrier–themed mascot of the University of California, Riverside, representing the school's Highlanders athletic teams and campus spirit.
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E.
Alasdair MacColla
Alasdair MacColla was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Gaelic mercenary leader and Royalist commander known for his role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, particularly in Ireland and Scotland.
- 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: MacTavish Target entity description: MacTavish is the surname of John "Soap" MacTavish, a prominent Scottish special forces character in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game series.
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A.
Sir Lachlan Maclean
Sir Lachlan Maclean is a Scottish clan chief of the historic Clan Maclean, traditionally associated with the Isle of Mull and the ancestral seat at Duart Castle.
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B.
Malcolm MacLeod
Malcolm MacLeod was a Scottish crofter from the Isle of Lewis and the father of Mary Anne MacLeod, who later became the mother of Donald Trump.
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C.
Moray Callum
Moray Callum is a Scottish automotive designer best known for his influential work at Ford, where he helped shape the design language of numerous key models in the 2000s and 2010s.
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D.
Scotty Highlander
Scotty Highlander is the Scottish terrier–themed mascot of the University of California, Riverside, representing the school's Highlanders athletic teams and campus spirit.
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E.
Alasdair MacColla
Alasdair MacColla was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Gaelic mercenary leader and Royalist commander known for his role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, particularly in Ireland and Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish surname
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surname ⓘ |
| appearsInFranchise | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | first-person shooter games ⓘ |
| associatedWithCountry | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Patronymic surnames
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Scottish surnames ⓘ |
| derivedFromGivenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| etymologicalMeaning | son of Thomas ⓘ |
| fictionalContext | special forces characters in Call of Duty ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | Scottish identity ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | John "Soap" MacTavish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableFictionalAssociation |
British special forces
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Task Force 141 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
MacTavis
NERFINISHED
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McTavis NERFINISHED ⓘ McTavish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Scottish Gaelic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableInMedium | video games GENERATED ⓘ |
| regionOfUsage |
Scotland
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedAsCharacterSurnameIn | Call of Duty franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAsFamilyNameOf | John "Soap" MacTavish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInFictionalWork |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
NERFINISHED
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) NERFINISHED ⓘ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: MacTavish Description of subject: MacTavish is the surname of John "Soap" MacTavish, a prominent Scottish special forces character in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.