Máirín
E841431
Máirín is an Irish given name, typically a diminutive or Gaelic form of Maureen or Mary.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Máirín canonical | 3 |
| Máirín (with fada on á and í) | 1 |
| Móirín | 1 |
| Síle | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10083503 — 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: Máirín Context triple: [Maureen, hasVariant, Máirín]
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A.
Ailbhe
Ailbhe is an Irish Gaelic given name, traditionally used for both males and females and often anglicized as Alva.
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B.
Caitríona
Caitríona is an Irish feminine given name, equivalent to Catherine, commonly borne by women of Irish heritage.
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C.
Orla
Orla is a river in eastern Germany that flows through Thuringia before joining the Saale.
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D.
Ailech
Ailech was an important early medieval Irish kingdom and power base in the northwest, historically associated with the northern branch of the Uí Néill dynasty.
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E.
Ó Cuinn
Ó Cuinn is an Irish Gaelic surname that is the original form of the anglicized name Quinn.
- 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: Máirín Target entity description: Máirín is an Irish given name, typically a diminutive or Gaelic form of Maureen or Mary.
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A.
Ailbhe
Ailbhe is an Irish Gaelic given name, traditionally used for both males and females and often anglicized as Alva.
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B.
Caitríona
Caitríona is an Irish feminine given name, equivalent to Catherine, commonly borne by women of Irish heritage.
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C.
Orla
Orla is a river in eastern Germany that flows through Thuringia before joining the Saale.
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D.
Ailech
Ailech was an important early medieval Irish kingdom and power base in the northwest, historically associated with the northern branch of the Uí Néill dynasty.
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E.
Ó Cuinn
Ó Cuinn is an Irish Gaelic surname that is the original form of the anglicized name Quinn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| baseFormWithoutDiacritics | Mairin ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | Irish culture ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Mary
ⓘ
Maureen ⓘ Máire ⓘ |
| etymologicalRoot | Hebrew name Miriam ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasDiacritic | síneadh fada ⓘ |
| hasPhoneticFeature | stress on first syllable ⓘ |
| hasSuffix | -ín ⓘ |
| isDiminutiveOf |
Mary
ⓘ
Maureen ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Irish
ⓘ
linked to:
Irish language
|
| nameCategory | Irish-language feminine given names ⓘ |
| nameDayTraditionLinkedTo | Christian ⓘ |
| nameType |
Gaelic form
ⓘ
diminutive form ⓘ |
| orthographicFeature | contains accented vowels ⓘ |
| relatedName |
Mary
ⓘ
Maureen ⓘ Máire ⓘ |
| scriptVariant |
Máirín (with fada on á and í)
ⓘ
linked to:
Máirín
|
| shortFormPattern | Irish diminutive suffix -ín ⓘ |
| typicalGenderAssociation | female ⓘ |
| usageRegion |
Ireland
ⓘ
Irish diaspora ⓘ |
| 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: Máirín Description of subject: Máirín is an Irish given name, typically a diminutive or Gaelic form of Maureen or Mary.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Máirín
linked to: Máirín
linked to: Máirín