McHenry
E201521
American baseball player
American diplomat
American politician
American statesman
family name
fort
person
surname
McHenry is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin borne by various notable individuals, including American statesman James McHenry, after whom Fort McHenry is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McHenry canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1720681 — 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: McHenry Context triple: [James McHenry, familyName, McHenry]
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A.
McHenry, Illinois
McHenry, Illinois is a small city in northeastern Illinois known for its suburban character, proximity to the Fox River and Chain O’Lakes, and role as a local commercial and residential hub.
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B.
McHenry County, Illinois
McHenry County, Illinois is a suburban county in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
DeKalb
DeKalb is a city in northern Illinois known for hosting Northern Illinois University and having historical ties to agriculture and barbed wire manufacturing.
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D.
Warren County
Warren County is a county in northeastern New York State known for encompassing much of the Adirondack Mountains and popular tourist destinations such as Lake George.
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E.
Hinsdale
Hinsdale is a small rural town in western Massachusetts known for its scenic Berkshire landscapes and outdoor recreation.
- 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: McHenry Target entity description: McHenry is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin borne by various notable individuals, including American statesman James McHenry, after whom Fort McHenry is named.
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A.
McHenry, Illinois
McHenry, Illinois is a small city in northeastern Illinois known for its suburban character, proximity to the Fox River and Chain O’Lakes, and role as a local commercial and residential hub.
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B.
McHenry County, Illinois
McHenry County, Illinois is a suburban county in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
DeKalb
DeKalb is a city in northern Illinois known for hosting Northern Illinois University and having historical ties to agriculture and barbed wire manufacturing.
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D.
Warren County
Warren County is a county in northeastern New York State known for encompassing much of the Adirondack Mountains and popular tourist destinations such as Lake George.
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E.
Hinsdale
Hinsdale is a small rural town in western Massachusetts known for its scenic Berkshire landscapes and outdoor recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American baseball player
ⓘ
American diplomat ⓘ American politician ⓘ American politician ⓘ American statesman ⓘ family name ⓘ fort ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English-language surnames
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Irish surnames ⓘ Scottish surnames ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Irish
ⓘ
Scottish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Donald McHenry
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Henry McHenry ⓘ James McHenry ⓘ John H. McHenry NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick McHenry ⓘ |
| hasNotableToponym | Fort McHenry ⓘ |
| hasOriginRegion |
Ireland
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Scotland ⓘ |
| hasSurname | McHenry ⓘ |
| hasUsageRegion |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| isRelatedTo | McHenry (disambiguation) ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
James McHenry
ⓘ
McHenry ⓘ |
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: McHenry Description of subject: McHenry is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin borne by various notable individuals, including American statesman James McHenry, after whom Fort McHenry is named.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.