MacKenna
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MacKenna is a surname variant of McKenna, typically of Irish origin.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11469394 — 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: MacKenna Context triple: [McKenna, hasVariant, MacKenna]
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A.
Mulcahy
Mulcahy is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin, borne by various notable figures in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
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B.
MacCullagh
MacCullagh is a variant spelling of the surname McCulloch, associated with Scottish and Irish family lineages.
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C.
Meagher
Meagher is an Irish surname most notably associated with Thomas Francis Meagher, a 19th-century Irish nationalist and American Civil War general.
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D.
Mullane
Mullane is a surname of Irish origin, considered a variant of the name Mullen.
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E.
McKernan
McKernan is the surname of Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, the influential founding keyboardist and vocalist of the Grateful Dead.
- 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: MacKenna Target entity description: MacKenna is a surname variant of McKenna, typically of Irish origin.
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A.
Mulcahy
Mulcahy is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin, borne by various notable figures in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
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B.
MacCullagh
MacCullagh is a variant spelling of the surname McCulloch, associated with Scottish and Irish family lineages.
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C.
Meagher
Meagher is an Irish surname most notably associated with Thomas Francis Meagher, a 19th-century Irish nationalist and American Civil War general.
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D.
Mullane
Mullane is a surname of Irish origin, considered a variant of the name Mullen.
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E.
McKernan
McKernan is the surname of Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, the influential founding keyboardist and vocalist of the Grateful Dead.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasAnglicisedFormOf | Mac Cionaoith ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Anglicised Irish-language surnames
ⓘ
English-language surnames ⓘ Irish surnames ⓘ |
| hasGenderAssociation | gender-neutral ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | son of Cionaodh ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLanguage |
Irish Gaelic
ⓘ
linked to:
Irish language
|
| hasRegionOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
Mac Kenna
ⓘ
Mackenna ⓘ
linked to:
MacKenna
|
| hasType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| hasUsageCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasVariant |
MacKenna
ⓘ
McKenna ⓘ |
| isEtymologicallyRelatedTo | Mac Cionaoith ⓘ |
| isVariantOf | McKenna ⓘ |
| sharesOriginWith |
MacKinna
ⓘ
linked to:
MacKenna
Mackenna ⓘ
linked to:
MacKenna
McKenna ⓘ |
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: MacKenna Description of subject: MacKenna is a surname variant of McKenna, typically of Irish origin.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: MacKenna
linked to: MacKenna
linked to: MacKenna
linked to: MacKenna