McNulty
E924131
McNulty is an Irish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including entertainers such as American singer and actor Dennis Day.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11416455 — 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: McNulty Context triple: [Dennis Day, familyName, McNulty]
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A.
Mullins
Mullins is an English-language surname of Irish and Norman origin borne by various notable individuals across history.
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B.
Mullane
Mullane is a surname of Irish origin, considered a variant of the name Mullen.
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C.
Mullen
Mullen is the surname of Larry Mullen Jr., the Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the rock band U2.
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D.
Mullally
Mullally is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as entertainment, sports, and public service.
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E.
Mulcahy
Mulcahy is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin, borne by various notable figures in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
- 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: McNulty Target entity description: McNulty is an Irish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including entertainers such as American singer and actor Dennis Day.
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A.
Mullins
Mullins is an English-language surname of Irish and Norman origin borne by various notable individuals across history.
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B.
Mullane
Mullane is a surname of Irish origin, considered a variant of the name Mullen.
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C.
Mullen
Mullen is the surname of Larry Mullen Jr., the Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the rock band U2.
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D.
Mullally
Mullally is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as entertainment, sports, and public service.
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E.
Mulcahy
Mulcahy is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin, borne by various notable figures in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
family name ⓘ person ⓘ singer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory | surnames of Irish origin ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | McNulty ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Gaelic
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Dennis Day ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Mac an Ultaigh
ⓘ
MacNulty ⓘ
linked to:
McNulty
|
| usedInCountry |
Ireland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| usedInLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
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: McNulty Description of subject: McNulty is an Irish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including entertainers such as American singer and actor Dennis Day.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.