Clan MacRae
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Clan MacRae is a Highland Scottish clan historically associated with Kintail and the Mackenzies, noted for its martial reputation and role as hereditary constables of Eilean Donan Castle.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clan MacRae canonical | 7 |
| Clan MacRae Society | 1 |
| Clan MacRae Society of North America | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2304996 — 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: Clan MacRae Context triple: [Scottish clans, hasPart, Clan MacRae]
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A.
Clan Maclean
Clan Maclean is a historic Scottish Highland clan of ancient origin, noted for its warrior tradition, strong maritime connections, and long-standing influence in the Hebrides.
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B.
Clan MacNeil
Clan MacNeil is a Scottish Highland clan traditionally associated with the Isle of Barra and known for its seafaring heritage and Gaelic culture.
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C.
Clan MacGregor
Clan MacGregor is a historic Highland Scottish clan known for its turbulent history, periods of proscription, and the famous motto "Royal is my race."
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D.
Clan MacLeod
Clan MacLeod is a historic Highland Scottish clan traditionally associated with the Isle of Skye and known for its ancient seat at Dunvegan Castle.
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E.
Clan MacNab
Clan MacNab is a historic Highland Scottish clan traditionally associated with the area around Loch Tay and known for its distinctive tartan and clan history.
- 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: Clan MacRae Target entity description: Clan MacRae is a Highland Scottish clan historically associated with Kintail and the Mackenzies, noted for its martial reputation and role as hereditary constables of Eilean Donan Castle.
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A.
Clan Maclean
Clan Maclean is a historic Scottish Highland clan of ancient origin, noted for its warrior tradition, strong maritime connections, and long-standing influence in the Hebrides.
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B.
Clan MacNeil
Clan MacNeil is a Scottish Highland clan traditionally associated with the Isle of Barra and known for its seafaring heritage and Gaelic culture.
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C.
Clan MacGregor
Clan MacGregor is a historic Highland Scottish clan known for its turbulent history, periods of proscription, and the famous motto "Royal is my race."
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D.
Clan MacLeod
Clan MacLeod is a historic Highland Scottish clan traditionally associated with the Isle of Skye and known for its ancient seat at Dunvegan Castle.
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E.
Clan MacNab
Clan MacNab is a historic Highland Scottish clan traditionally associated with the area around Loch Tay and known for its distinctive tartan and clan history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Clan MacRae Description of subject: Clan MacRae is a Highland Scottish clan historically associated with Kintail and the Mackenzies, noted for its martial reputation and role as hereditary constables of Eilean Donan Castle.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Clan MacRae
linked to: Clan MacRae