Mac Mhic Raonuill
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Mac Mhic Raonuill is the Gaelic title borne by the traditional chiefs of Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, a branch of the historic Scottish Highland MacDonald clan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mac Mhic Raonuill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13304500 — 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: Mac Mhic Raonuill Context triple: [Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, traditionalChiefTitle, Mac Mhic Raonuill]
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A.
Mac Aoidh
Mac Aoidh is a Gaelic surname, anglicized in forms such as McKay, traditionally associated with Scottish and Irish clans.
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B.
Mac Cionnaith
Mac Cionnaith is a Gaelic surname that represents an older or variant form of the modern Irish and Scottish name McKenna.
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C.
Mac Dhùghaill
Mac Dhùghaill is a Scottish Gaelic surname that represents the original Gaelic form of the anglicized name MacDougall.
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D.
Domnall Brecc
Domnall Brecc was a 7th-century king of Dál Riata in what is now western Scotland, known for his military defeats and the decline of his kingdom’s power during his reign.
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E.
Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich MacDhòmhnaill
Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich MacDhòmhnaill was a 17th-century Scottish Gaelic warrior and Royalist commander noted for his role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, particularly in the Scottish Highlands and Ireland.
- 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: Mac Mhic Raonuill Target entity description: Mac Mhic Raonuill is the Gaelic title borne by the traditional chiefs of Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, a branch of the historic Scottish Highland MacDonald clan.
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A.
Mac Aoidh
Mac Aoidh is a Gaelic surname, anglicized in forms such as McKay, traditionally associated with Scottish and Irish clans.
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B.
Mac Cionnaith
Mac Cionnaith is a Gaelic surname that represents an older or variant form of the modern Irish and Scottish name McKenna.
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C.
Mac Dhùghaill
Mac Dhùghaill is a Scottish Gaelic surname that represents the original Gaelic form of the anglicized name MacDougall.
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D.
Domnall Brecc
Domnall Brecc was a 7th-century king of Dál Riata in what is now western Scotland, known for his military defeats and the decline of his kingdom’s power during his reign.
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E.
Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich MacDhòmhnaill
Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich MacDhòmhnaill was a 17th-century Scottish Gaelic warrior and Royalist commander noted for his role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, particularly in the Scottish Highlands and Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gaelic title
ⓘ
clan chief title ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Clan MacDonald
ⓘ
linked to:
clan MacDonald
Scottish Highlands ⓘ |
| clanBranchOf | Clan Donald ⓘ |
| clanName |
MacDonald of Keppoch
ⓘ
linked to:
Alexander MacDonald of Keppoch
|
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Gaelic Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicContext |
Scottish Highlanders
ⓘ
linked to:
Scottish Highlander
|
| historicalAssociation | Scottish clan system ⓘ |
| language | Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| namingConvention | patronymic title ⓘ |
| partOf | Highland clan chief titles ⓘ |
| region |
Keppoch
ⓘ
Lochaber ⓘ |
| status | hereditary title ⓘ |
| titleHolderRole | chief of Clan MacDonald of Keppoch ⓘ |
| traditionalTitleFor |
chiefs of Clan MacDonald of Keppoch
ⓘ
linked to:
Clan MacDonald of Keppoch
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| usedBy | Clan MacDonald of Keppoch ⓘ |
| usedIn | Gaelic heraldry and protocol ⓘ |
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: Mac Mhic Raonuill Description of subject: Mac Mhic Raonuill is the Gaelic title borne by the traditional chiefs of Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, a branch of the historic Scottish Highland MacDonald clan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.