Mac Donough
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Mac Donough is a variant spelling of the Irish surname McDonough, commonly associated with families of Gaelic origin.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MacDonough | 2 |
| Mac Donough canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4700835 — 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 Donough Context triple: [McDonough, hasVariant, Mac Donough]
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A.
William F. Connell
William F. Connell was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Boston College to name its nursing school in his honor.
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B.
Alvan C. Gillem
Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
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C.
Captain Thomas Lathrop
Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
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D.
Charles Devens
Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
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E.
Robert B. Anderson
Robert B. Anderson was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- 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 Donough Target entity description: Mac Donough is a variant spelling of the Irish surname McDonough, commonly associated with families of Gaelic origin.
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A.
William F. Connell
William F. Connell was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Boston College to name its nursing school in his honor.
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B.
Alvan C. Gillem
Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
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C.
Captain Thomas Lathrop
Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
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D.
Charles Devens
Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
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E.
Robert B. Anderson
Robert B. Anderson was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish surname
ⓘ
family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory | Anglicised Irish-language surnames ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Donough
ⓘ
linked to:
O’Donoghue
Mac ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin |
Gaelic
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalElement | Mac (meaning "son of" in Gaelic) ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Gaelic
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfSpelling | variant spelling ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling | McDonough ⓘ |
| isRelatedSurname |
MacDonough
ⓘ
linked to:
Mac Donough
McDonough ⓘ |
| isUsedBy |
Irish families
ⓘ
families of Gaelic origin ⓘ |
| sharesOriginWith |
MacDonough
ⓘ
linked to:
Mac Donough
McDonough ⓘ |
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 Donough Description of subject: Mac Donough is a variant spelling of the Irish surname McDonough, commonly associated with families of Gaelic origin.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mac Donough
linked to: Mac Donough