McDermid
E420911
McDermid is a Scottish surname, often a variant of McDiarmid, borne by various individuals of Scottish and Irish heritage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McDermid canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4209128 — 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: McDermid Context triple: [McDiarmid, hasSpellingVariant, McDermid]
-
A.
McDermott
McDermott is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as business, politics, sports, and the arts.
-
B.
Maryland Smith
Maryland Smith is the business school of the University of Maryland, known for its programs in business, management, and related fields.
-
C.
Melia McEnery
Melia McEnery is an American philanthropist and former graphic designer best known as the wife of legendary English guitarist and singer Eric Clapton.
-
D.
Mare Sheehan
Mare Sheehan is a troubled small-town Pennsylvania detective and the central figure of the crime drama miniseries "Mare of Easttown," known for juggling a complex murder investigation with her own personal and family struggles.
-
E.
Vickery Oates
Vickery Oates is best known as the wife of American character actor Warren Oates.
- 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: McDermid Target entity description: McDermid is a Scottish surname, often a variant of McDiarmid, borne by various individuals of Scottish and Irish heritage.
-
A.
McDermott
McDermott is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as business, politics, sports, and the arts.
-
B.
Maryland Smith
Maryland Smith is the business school of the University of Maryland, known for its programs in business, management, and related fields.
-
C.
Melia McEnery
Melia McEnery is an American philanthropist and former graphic designer best known as the wife of legendary English guitarist and singer Eric Clapton.
-
D.
Mare Sheehan
Mare Sheehan is a troubled small-town Pennsylvania detective and the central figure of the crime drama miniseries "Mare of Easttown," known for juggling a complex murder investigation with her own personal and family struggles.
-
E.
Vickery Oates
Vickery Oates is best known as the wife of American character actor Warren Oates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish surname
ⓘ
Scottish writer ⓘ crime novelist ⓘ family name ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Scottish surnames
ⓘ
Surnames of Irish origin ⓘ Surnames of Scottish origin ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin |
Ireland
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
Irish
ⓘ
Scottish ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Irish
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Campbell McDermid
ⓘ
Sean McDermid ⓘ Val McDermid ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariantOf | McDiarmid ⓘ |
| hasSurname | McDermid ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
MacDiarmid
ⓘ
McDiarmid ⓘ |
| isPatronymicFormOf | Diarmid ⓘ |
| isRelatedTo | Diarmid ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | family name ⓘ |
| isUsedBy |
people of Irish descent
ⓘ
people of Scottish descent ⓘ |
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: McDermid Description of subject: McDermid is a Scottish surname, often a variant of McDiarmid, borne by various individuals of Scottish and Irish heritage.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.