Mac Mahon
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Mac Mahon is a variant spelling of the Irish surname McMahon, historically associated with several notable Irish families and figures.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mac Mahon canonical | 2 |
| Patrice de Mac Mahon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10107496 — 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 Mahon Context triple: [McMahon, hasVariant, Mac Mahon]
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A.
Pierre Jean Édouard Desor
Pierre Jean Édouard Desor was a 19th-century Swiss geologist and naturalist known for his pioneering work in glaciology and Alpine exploration.
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B.
Paul Doumer
Paul Doumer was a French statesman who served as Governor-General of French Indochina and later as President of France from 1931 until his assassination in 1932.
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C.
Louis Barthou
Louis Barthou was a prominent French statesman and politician of the Third Republic who served in multiple ministerial roles, including Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.
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D.
Félix Faure
Félix Faure was a French politician who served as President of France from 1895 until his sudden death in 1899, during the turbulent era of the Dreyfus Affair.
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E.
Émile Loubet
Émile Loubet was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1899 to 1906, overseeing a period of political stabilization during the Third Republic.
- 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 Mahon Target entity description: Mac Mahon is a variant spelling of the Irish surname McMahon, historically associated with several notable Irish families and figures.
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A.
Pierre Jean Édouard Desor
Pierre Jean Édouard Desor was a 19th-century Swiss geologist and naturalist known for his pioneering work in glaciology and Alpine exploration.
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B.
Paul Doumer
Paul Doumer was a French statesman who served as Governor-General of French Indochina and later as President of France from 1931 until his assassination in 1932.
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C.
Louis Barthou
Louis Barthou was a prominent French statesman and politician of the Third Republic who served in multiple ministerial roles, including Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.
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D.
Félix Faure
Félix Faure was a French politician who served as President of France from 1895 until his sudden death in 1899, during the turbulent era of the Dreyfus Affair.
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E.
Émile Loubet
Émile Loubet was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1899 to 1906, overseeing a period of political stabilization during the Third Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Irish diaspora
ⓘ
Irish families ⓘ |
| category | Irish-language surnames ⓘ |
| component |
Mac
ⓘ
Mahon ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Gaelic patronymic system ⓘ |
| etymologicallyDerivedFrom | Mac Mathghamhna ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | Irish heritage ⓘ |
| hasGenderForm | masculine surname form ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | son of Mahon ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
MacMahon
ⓘ
McMahon ⓘ |
| historicallyAssociatedWith |
notable Irish figures
ⓘ
several notable Irish families ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| MacMeans | son of ⓘ |
| MahonDerivedFrom | Mathghamhain ⓘ |
| relatedSurname |
MacMahon
ⓘ
McMahon ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| typicalUsage | family name ⓘ |
| usedIn | Ireland ⓘ |
| variantSpellingOf | McMahon ⓘ |
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 Mahon Description of subject: Mac Mahon is a variant spelling of the Irish surname McMahon, historically associated with several notable Irish families and figures.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mac Mahon