Mag Uidhir
E1045996
Mag Uidhir is an Irish Gaelic surname that gave rise to the anglicized family name Maguire, historically associated with a prominent clan from County Fermanagh.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mag Uidhir canonical | 2 |
| Mac Uidhir | 1 |
| Mag Uidir | 1 |
| MagUiginn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13498463 — 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: Mag Uidhir Context triple: [Maguire, derivedFrom, Mag Uidhir]
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A.
Uíbh Ráthach
Uíbh Ráthach is an Irish-speaking district on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, known for its strong Gaelic cultural traditions and scenic coastal landscapes.
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B.
An Tairbeart
An Tairbeart is the Scottish Gaelic name for the village of Tarbert on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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C.
Uíbh Fhailí
Uíbh Fhailí is the Irish-language name for County Offaly, a midlands county in the Republic of Ireland.
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D.
Ó Dubhagáin
Ó Dubhagáin is an Irish Gaelic surname that represents a traditional form of the name later anglicized as Duggan.
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E.
Uachtar Osraí
Uachtar Osraí is the Irish-language name for Upper Ossory, a historic region and former barony in the south-central part of 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: Mag Uidhir Target entity description: Mag Uidhir is an Irish Gaelic surname that gave rise to the anglicized family name Maguire, historically associated with a prominent clan from County Fermanagh.
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A.
Uíbh Ráthach
Uíbh Ráthach is an Irish-speaking district on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, known for its strong Gaelic cultural traditions and scenic coastal landscapes.
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B.
An Tairbeart
An Tairbeart is the Scottish Gaelic name for the village of Tarbert on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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C.
Uíbh Fhailí
Uíbh Fhailí is the Irish-language name for County Offaly, a midlands county in the Republic of Ireland.
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D.
Ó Dubhagáin
Ó Dubhagáin is an Irish Gaelic surname that represents a traditional form of the name later anglicized as Duggan.
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E.
Uachtar Osraí
Uachtar Osraí is the Irish-language name for Upper Ossory, a historic region and former barony in the south-central part of Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gaelic-language surname
ⓘ
Irish surname ⓘ family name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Clan Maguire
ⓘ
Maguire clan ⓘ Ulster ⓘ |
| bearerType | hereditary surname ⓘ |
| category |
Irish-language surnames
ⓘ
Patronymic surnames ⓘ Surnames of Irish origin ⓘ |
| clanTerritory | Kingdom of Fermanagh ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish ⓘ |
| hasAnglicizedForm | Maguire ⓘ |
| hasEnglishSpelling |
Mag Uidir
ⓘ
linked to:
Mag Uidhir
|
| hasModernForm | Maguire ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
MacGuire
ⓘ
linked to:
McGuire
Maguire ⓘ McGuire ⓘ |
| historicalAssociation | Gaelic lordship of Fermanagh ⓘ |
| historicalTerritory | Fermanagh ⓘ |
| language |
Irish Gaelic
ⓘ
linked to:
Irish language
|
| linkedClanRole | ruling dynasty in Fermanagh ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Maguire family of Fermanagh
ⓘ
linked to:
Maguire chieftains of Fermanagh
|
| originLanguageFamily | Celtic languages ⓘ |
| originSubfamily |
Goidelic languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Goidelic
|
| regionOfOrigin | County Fermanagh ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| timePeriod | medieval Ireland ⓘ |
| usedBy | Gaelic Irish families ⓘ |
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: Mag Uidhir Description of subject: Mag Uidhir is an Irish Gaelic surname that gave rise to the anglicized family name Maguire, historically associated with a prominent clan from County Fermanagh.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Aodh Mag Uidhir (Hugh Maguire)
linked to: Mag Uidhir
linked to: Mag Uidhir
linked to: Mag Uidhir