McGilpatrick
E793828
McGilpatrick is a surname of likely Scottish or Irish origin, used as a variant spelling of MacGilpatrick.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McGilpatrick canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9337140 — 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: McGilpatrick Context triple: [MacGilpatrick, hasVariant, McGilpatrick]
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A.
McKean
McKean is a Scottish and Irish surname borne by various notable individuals, including American Founding Father Thomas McKean.
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B.
Kilpatrick
Kilpatrick is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin, often considered a variant of Kirkpatrick, and borne by various notable figures in politics, the military, and the arts.
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C.
Paxton
Paxton is a small rural village in the Scottish Borders region of southeastern Scotland.
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D.
Paxton
Paxton is a surname most prominently associated with the late American actor and filmmaker Bill Paxton, known for his roles in films like "Twister," "Aliens," and "Titanic."
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E.
Quayle
Quayle is the surname of Dan Quayle, the 44th vice president of the United States who served under President George H. W. Bush.
- 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: McGilpatrick Target entity description: McGilpatrick is a surname of likely Scottish or Irish origin, used as a variant spelling of MacGilpatrick.
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A.
McKean
McKean is a Scottish and Irish surname borne by various notable individuals, including American Founding Father Thomas McKean.
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B.
Kilpatrick
Kilpatrick is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin, often considered a variant of Kirkpatrick, and borne by various notable figures in politics, the military, and the arts.
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C.
Paxton
Paxton is a small rural village in the Scottish Borders region of southeastern Scotland.
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D.
Paxton
Paxton is a surname most prominently associated with the late American actor and filmmaker Bill Paxton, known for his roles in films like "Twister," "Aliens," and "Titanic."
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E.
Quayle
Quayle is the surname of Dan Quayle, the 44th vice president of the United States who served under President George H. W. Bush.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Gaelic personal name Patrick ⓘ |
| etymologicalMeaning | son of Gilpatrick ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin |
Irish
ⓘ
Scottish ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasPrefix | Mc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant | MacGilpatrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSuffix | Gilpatrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | family name ⓘ |
| isVariantOf | MacGilpatrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameCategory | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| nameType | proper noun ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Patrick (given name) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: McGilpatrick Description of subject: McGilpatrick is a surname of likely Scottish or Irish origin, used as a variant spelling of MacGilpatrick.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.