Máire
E844906
Máire is an Irish female given name, traditionally the Irish form of Mary and widely used in Irish-speaking communities.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10083508 — 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: Máire Context triple: [Maureen, diminutiveOf, Máire]
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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.
Máirín
Máirín is an Irish given name, typically a diminutive or Gaelic form of Maureen or Mary.
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C.
Caitríona
Caitríona is an Irish feminine given name, equivalent to Catherine, commonly borne by women of Irish heritage.
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D.
Siobhán
Siobhán is an Irish feminine given name, traditionally associated with the Gaelic form of Joan and meaning "God is gracious."
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E.
Orla
Orla is a river in eastern Germany that flows through Thuringia before joining the Saale.
- 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: Máire Target entity description: Máire is an Irish female given name, traditionally the Irish form of Mary and widely used in Irish-speaking communities.
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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.
Máirín
Máirín is an Irish given name, typically a diminutive or Gaelic form of Maureen or Mary.
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C.
Caitríona
Caitríona is an Irish feminine given name, equivalent to Catherine, commonly borne by women of Irish heritage.
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D.
Siobhán
Siobhán is an Irish feminine given name, traditionally associated with the Gaelic form of Joan and meaning "God is gracious."
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E.
Orla
Orla is a river in eastern Germany that flows through Thuringia before joining the Saale.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish feminine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| associatedFigure | Virgin Mary ⓘ |
| associatedReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| category | Irish-language feminine given names ⓘ |
| cognateWith | Mary ⓘ |
| culturalRegion |
Gaeltacht areas of Ireland
ⓘ
linked to:
Gaeltacht
|
| equivalentFormOf | Mary ⓘ |
| etymologicalRoot | Hebrew name Miriam (via Mary) ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasDiacritic | síneadh fada (acute accent on á) ⓘ |
| hasLetter |
M
ⓘ
e ⓘ i ⓘ r ⓘ á ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Maire (without fada)
ⓘ
linked to:
Maire
Máiréad ⓘ
linked to:
Máire
Máirín ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| nameType | personal name ⓘ |
| numberOfLetters | 5 ⓘ |
| numberOfSyllables | 2 ⓘ |
| script | Roman script ⓘ |
| shortFormOf | Máiria (rare/extended forms of Mary in Irish) ⓘ |
| traditionalUsage | widely used in Irish-speaking regions ⓘ |
| usageType | first name ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Ireland
ⓘ
Irish-speaking communities ⓘ |
| 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: Máire Description of subject: Máire is an Irish female given name, traditionally the Irish form of Mary and widely used in Irish-speaking communities.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Máire
linked to: Máire