Macdonough, Delaware
E157009
Macdonough, Delaware is a small unincorporated community in New Castle County named in honor of U.S. naval officer Thomas Macdonough.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macdonough, Delaware canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1362654 — 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: Macdonough, Delaware Context triple: [Thomas Macdonough, hasNamesake, Macdonough, Delaware]
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A.
Cabell
Cabell is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including American politician Earle Cabell.
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B.
Benning
Benning is a residential neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C., known for its proximity to major thoroughfares and access to public transit.
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C.
Elsmere, Delaware
Elsmere, Delaware is a small suburban town located just west of Wilmington, known for its residential neighborhoods and local parks.
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D.
Kilpatric
Kilpatric is a surname variant of Kilpatrick, a Scottish-origin family name historically associated with clans and place names in Scotland.
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E.
McDouglas
McDouglas is a less common Scottish-derived surname variant of Douglas, typically indicating "son of Douglas."
- 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: Macdonough, Delaware Target entity description: Macdonough, Delaware is a small unincorporated community in New Castle County named in honor of U.S. naval officer Thomas Macdonough.
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A.
Cabell
Cabell is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including American politician Earle Cabell.
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B.
Benning
Benning is a residential neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C., known for its proximity to major thoroughfares and access to public transit.
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C.
Elsmere, Delaware
Elsmere, Delaware is a small suburban town located just west of Wilmington, known for its residential neighborhoods and local parks.
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D.
Kilpatric
Kilpatric is a surname variant of Kilpatrick, a Scottish-origin family name historically associated with clans and place names in Scotland.
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E.
McDouglas
McDouglas is a less common Scottish-derived surname variant of Douglas, typically indicating "son of Douglas."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. state
ⓘ
county ⓘ person ⓘ unincorporated community ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionLevel | locality ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | New Castle County, Delaware ⓘ |
| hasEponym | Thomas Macdonough ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | unincorporated area ⓘ |
| hasName |
Macdonough
ⓘ
Macdonough, Delaware ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | unincorporated community ⓘ |
| honors | Thomas Macdonough ⓘ |
| isInRegion |
Mid-Atlantic United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Mid-Atlantic states
northern Delaware ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | geographic description of New Castle County, Delaware ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Delaware
ⓘ
New Castle County, Delaware ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfter | Thomas Macdonough ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. naval officer ⓘ |
| partOf | New Castle County, Delaware ⓘ |
| state |
Delaware
ⓘ
Delaware ⓘ |
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: Macdonough, Delaware Description of subject: Macdonough, Delaware is a small unincorporated community in New Castle County named in honor of U.S. naval officer Thomas Macdonough.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.