Mac Cionnaith
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Mac Cionnaith is a Gaelic surname that represents an older or variant form of the modern Irish and Scottish name McKenna.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mac Cionnaith canonical | 3 |
| MacNeachtain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11469396 — 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 Cionnaith Context triple: [McKenna, hasVariant, Mac Cionnaith]
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A.
Mac Conmara
Mac Conmara is an Irish Gaelic surname historically associated with a prominent family of the Dál gCais lineage in Munster.
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B.
Mac Dhùghaill
Mac Dhùghaill is a Scottish Gaelic surname that represents the original Gaelic form of the anglicized name MacDougall.
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C.
Suilleabháin
Suilleabháin is an Irish surname, traditionally anglicized as Sullivan, with roots in Gaelic heritage and history.
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D.
Ó Ceallaigh
Ó Ceallaigh is an Irish Gaelic surname that is traditionally anglicised as Kelly, one of the most common family names in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
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E.
O'Lochlainn
O'Lochlainn is an Irish surname, a variant of O'Laughlen, traditionally associated with Gaelic heritage and families from Ireland.
- 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 Cionnaith Target entity description: Mac Cionnaith is a Gaelic surname that represents an older or variant form of the modern Irish and Scottish name McKenna.
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A.
Mac Conmara
Mac Conmara is an Irish Gaelic surname historically associated with a prominent family of the Dál gCais lineage in Munster.
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B.
Mac Dhùghaill
Mac Dhùghaill is a Scottish Gaelic surname that represents the original Gaelic form of the anglicized name MacDougall.
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C.
Suilleabháin
Suilleabháin is an Irish surname, traditionally anglicized as Sullivan, with roots in Gaelic heritage and history.
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D.
Ó Ceallaigh
Ó Ceallaigh is an Irish Gaelic surname that is traditionally anglicised as Kelly, one of the most common family names in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
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E.
O'Lochlainn
O'Lochlainn is an Irish surname, a variant of O'Laughlen, traditionally associated with Gaelic heritage and families from Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gaelic surname
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| category |
Irish surnames
ⓘ
Scottish surnames ⓘ |
| etymologicalOrigin | Gaelic patronymic naming tradition ⓘ |
| hasAnglicisedForm | McKenna ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Cionnaith
ⓘ
Mac ⓘ |
| hasGenderAssociation | patrilineal ⓘ |
| hasModernForm | McKenna ⓘ |
| isOlderFormOf | McKenna ⓘ |
| isVariantOf | McKenna ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Gaelic
ⓘ
linked to:
Goidelic
Irish ⓘ Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| meaningOfPrefixMac | son of ⓘ |
| nameStatus | archaic form ⓘ |
| nameType | family name ⓘ |
| orthographicVariant | Mac Cionnaith ⓘ |
| regionOfUsage | Gaelic-speaking regions ⓘ |
| relatedName | McKenna ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Ireland
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ |
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 Cionnaith Description of subject: Mac Cionnaith is a Gaelic surname that represents an older or variant form of the modern Irish and Scottish name McKenna.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mac Cionnaith