Mac Néill
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Mac Néill is a Gaelic surname associated with the historic Scottish Clan MacNeil, traditionally linked to the Hebridean islands of Barra and Gigha.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4837501 — 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 Néill Context triple: [Clan MacNeil, surnameForm, Mac Néill]
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A.
Mac Diarmada
Mac Diarmada is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin, historically associated with a prominent clan in Connacht.
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B.
Mac McNeilly
Mac McNeilly is an American drummer best known for his powerful, driving work with the influential noise rock band The Jesus Lizard.
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C.
Ó Ceallaigh
Ó Ceallaigh is an Irish Gaelic surname that is traditionally anglicised as Kelly, one of the most common family names in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
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D.
Suilleabháin
Suilleabháin is an Irish surname, traditionally anglicized as Sullivan, with roots in Gaelic heritage and history.
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E.
Mac Dhùghaill
Mac Dhùghaill is a Scottish Gaelic surname that represents the original Gaelic form of the anglicized name MacDougall.
- 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 Néill Target entity description: Mac Néill is a Gaelic surname associated with the historic Scottish Clan MacNeil, traditionally linked to the Hebridean islands of Barra and Gigha.
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A.
Mac Diarmada
Mac Diarmada is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin, historically associated with a prominent clan in Connacht.
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B.
Mac McNeilly
Mac McNeilly is an American drummer best known for his powerful, driving work with the influential noise rock band The Jesus Lizard.
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C.
Ó Ceallaigh
Ó Ceallaigh is an Irish Gaelic surname that is traditionally anglicised as Kelly, one of the most common family names in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
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D.
Suilleabháin
Suilleabháin is an Irish surname, traditionally anglicized as Sullivan, with roots in Gaelic heritage and history.
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E.
Mac Dhùghaill
Mac Dhùghaill is a Scottish Gaelic surname that represents the original Gaelic form of the anglicized name MacDougall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gaelic-language surname
ⓘ
Scottish surname ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| alsoUsedIn | Ireland ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Clan MacNeil
ⓘ
Scottish Clan MacNeil of Barra ⓘ
linked to:
Clan MacNeil
Scottish Clan MacNeil of Gigha ⓘ
linked to:
Clan MacNeil
|
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Gaelic
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ Scottish ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Mac Néill (Gaelic patronymic meaning "son of Niall") ⓘ |
| etymologicallyRelatedTo | Niall (given name) ⓘ |
| hasAnglicisedForm | O'Neill ⓘ |
| hasDiacritics | contains acute accent on "é" ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
MacNeil
ⓘ
MacNeill ⓘ
linked to:
MacNeil
McNeil ⓘ
linked to:
MacNeil
McNeill ⓘ Ó Néill ⓘ |
| historicallyLinkedTo | Hebridean seafaring clans ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Irish
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| meaning | son of Niall ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin |
Hebrides
ⓘ
Isle of Barra ⓘ Isle of Gigha ⓘ
linked to:
Gigha
|
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
| usedBy | members of Clan MacNeil ⓘ |
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 Néill Description of subject: Mac Néill is a Gaelic surname associated with the historic Scottish Clan MacNeil, traditionally linked to the Hebridean islands of Barra and Gigha.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mac Néill