McMahon
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McMahon is an Irish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, entertainment, and sports across Ireland, the United States, and other English-speaking countries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McMahon canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1915464 — 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: McMahon Context triple: [Brien McMahon, familyName, McMahon]
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A.
McGillicuddy
McGillicuddy is an Irish-origin surname best known as the birth name of legendary American baseball manager Connie Mack.
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B.
McCauley
McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
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C.
McGuire
McGuire is a surname most notably associated with American actress Dorothy McGuire, known for her work in classic Hollywood films.
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D.
Guilfoyle
Guilfoyle is a surname most prominently associated in contemporary American culture with television personality and political figure Kimberly Guilfoyle.
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E.
Aikman
Aikman is the surname of Troy Aikman, the Hall of Fame former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Dallas Cowboys to three Super Bowl titles in the 1990s.
- 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: McMahon Target entity description: McMahon is an Irish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, entertainment, and sports across Ireland, the United States, and other English-speaking countries.
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A.
McGillicuddy
McGillicuddy is an Irish-origin surname best known as the birth name of legendary American baseball manager Connie Mack.
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B.
McCauley
McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
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C.
McGuire
McGuire is a surname most notably associated with American actress Dorothy McGuire, known for her work in classic Hollywood films.
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D.
Guilfoyle
Guilfoyle is a surname most prominently associated in contemporary American culture with television personality and political figure Kimberly Guilfoyle.
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E.
Aikman
Aikman is the surname of Troy Aikman, the Hall of Fame former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Dallas Cowboys to three Super Bowl titles in the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Anglicised Irish-language surnames
ⓘ
English-language surnames ⓘ Irish surnames ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalOrigin |
Irish Gaelic
ⓘ
linked to:
Irish language
|
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasMeaningRelatedTo | son of Mahon ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearersInField |
acting
ⓘ
business ⓘ entertainment ⓘ law ⓘ military ⓘ music ⓘ politics ⓘ professional wrestling ⓘ sports ⓘ television presenting ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Mac Mahon
ⓘ
MacMahon ⓘ |
| isCommonInRegion |
County Clare
ⓘ
County Monaghan ⓘ |
| isPatronymic | true ⓘ |
| isUsedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: McMahon Description of subject: McMahon is an Irish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, entertainment, and sports across Ireland, the United States, and other English-speaking countries.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.