MacKeam
E1014864
MacKeam is a Scottish surname historically linked to Clan Gunn, a Highland clan from the far north of Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MacKeam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13022602 — 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: MacKeam Context triple: [Clan Gunn, associatedSurname, MacKeam]
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A.
Mackenzell
Mackenzell is a small village in the Hesse region of central Germany.
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B.
Drieborg
Drieborg is a small village in the municipality of Oldambt in the province of Groningen in the northeastern Netherlands.
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C.
Kaiten
Kaiten was a Japanese warship that took part in the late-19th-century Boshin War naval engagements, including the Battle of Hakodate.
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D.
Muldoanich
Muldoanich is a small uninhabited island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, lying near the island of Barra.
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E.
Osicala
Osicala is a small municipality located in the mountainous Morazán Department of northeastern El Salvador, known for its rural character and agricultural activities.
- 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: MacKeam Target entity description: MacKeam is a Scottish surname historically linked to Clan Gunn, a Highland clan from the far north of Scotland.
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A.
Mackenzell
Mackenzell is a small village in the Hesse region of central Germany.
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B.
Drieborg
Drieborg is a small village in the municipality of Oldambt in the province of Groningen in the northeastern Netherlands.
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C.
Kaiten
Kaiten was a Japanese warship that took part in the late-19th-century Boshin War naval engagements, including the Battle of Hakodate.
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D.
Muldoanich
Muldoanich is a small uninhabited island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, lying near the island of Barra.
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E.
Osicala
Osicala is a small municipality located in the mountainous Morazán Department of northeastern El Salvador, known for its rural character and agricultural activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish clan
ⓘ
Scottish surname ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Clan Gunn ⓘ |
| category |
Clan Gunn surnames
ⓘ
Scottish surnames ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Scottish ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling | MacKeam (lowercase k: Mackeam) ⓘ |
| historicallyLinkedTo | Clan Gunn ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| region | Scottish Highlands ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin |
Scottish Highlands
ⓘ
far north of Scotland ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
| 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: MacKeam Description of subject: MacKeam is a Scottish surname historically linked to Clan Gunn, a Highland clan from the far north of Scotland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.