Clan Donald
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Clan Donald is one of the largest and most powerful Scottish Highland clans, historically influential in the Western Isles and known for its extensive branches and chieftainships.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clan Donald canonical | 102 |
| Clann Somhairle | 3 |
| Clan Donald South | 1 |
| Clan Donald kindred | 1 |
| Clan Donald of Sleat | 1 |
| Clann Chaimbeul | 1 |
| Clann Dòmhnaill | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2305007 — 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 Donald Context triple: [Scottish clans, hasPart, Clan Donald]
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A.
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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B.
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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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 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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E.
Clan MacInnes
Clan MacInnes is a historic Scottish Highland clan traditionally associated with the western coastal regions and known for its Gaelic heritage and warrior lineage.
- 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 Donald Target entity description: Clan Donald is one of the largest and most powerful Scottish Highland clans, historically influential in the Western Isles and known for its extensive branches and chieftainships.
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A.
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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B.
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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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 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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E.
Clan MacInnes
Clan MacInnes is a historic Scottish Highland clan traditionally associated with the western coastal regions and known for its Gaelic heritage and warrior lineage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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 Donald Description of subject: Clan Donald is one of the largest and most powerful Scottish Highland clans, historically influential in the Western Isles and known for its extensive branches and chieftainships.
Referenced by (110)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Clan Donald
subject linked to:
clan MacDonald
subject linked to:
clan MacDonald
linked to: Clan Donald
linked to: Clan Donald
linked to: Clan Donald
subject linked to:
Somerset mac Gillabrigte (Somhairle mac Gille Brighde, Somerled)
subject linked to:
Domhnall of Islay (Donald of Islay)
subject linked to:
Domhnall of Islay (Donald of Islay)
linked to: Clan Donald
linked to: Clan Donald