MacDonald
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MacDonald is a common Scottish surname historically associated with the powerful Clan Donald and borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, and public life.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MacDonald canonical | 33 |
| Macdonald | 25 |
| MacDonald surname | 1 |
| MacDonalds arrived by sea | 1 |
| MacDonalds of Dunnyveg and the Glens | 1 |
| MacDonalds of Glencoe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2827122 — 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: MacDonald Context triple: [Ramsay MacDonald, familyName, MacDonald]
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A.
MacAndrew
MacAndrew is a Scottish surname, historically a variant of Anderson, associated with families and clans of Gaelic origin.
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B.
Maclean
Maclean is a riverside town in northern New South Wales, Australia, known for its strong Scottish heritage and annual Highland Gathering.
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MacKay
MacKay is a Scottish surname historically associated with the Clan Mackay of the Scottish Highlands and borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, and sciences.
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D.
MacLeod
MacLeod is a Scottish surname historically associated with the Highlands and the Isle of Skye, borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and public life.
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E.
MacRae
MacRae is a Scottish surname associated with various notable individuals in fields such as entertainment, sports, and public life.
- 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: MacDonald Target entity description: MacDonald is a common Scottish surname historically associated with the powerful Clan Donald and borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, and public life.
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A.
MacAndrew
MacAndrew is a Scottish surname, historically a variant of Anderson, associated with families and clans of Gaelic origin.
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B.
Maclean
Maclean is a riverside town in northern New South Wales, Australia, known for its strong Scottish heritage and annual Highland Gathering.
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C.
MacKay
MacKay is a Scottish surname historically associated with the Clan Mackay of the Scottish Highlands and borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, and sciences.
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D.
MacLeod
MacLeod is a Scottish surname historically associated with the Highlands and the Isle of Skye, borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and public life.
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E.
MacRae
MacRae is a Scottish surname associated with various notable individuals in fields such as entertainment, sports, and public life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: MacDonald Description of subject: MacDonald is a common Scottish surname historically associated with the powerful Clan Donald and borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, and public life.
Referenced by (62)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Mac means son
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