Mairi
E370384
Mairi is a Scottish Gaelic form of the given name Mary, commonly used in Scotland and Gaelic-speaking communities.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3580275 — 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: Mairi Context triple: [Mary, hasVariant, Mairi]
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A.
Catriona
Catriona is a feminine given name of Gaelic origin, commonly used in Scotland and Ireland and often considered a variant of Katherine.
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B.
Catriona
Catriona is a historical adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that continues the story begun in Kidnapped, following David Balfour’s further trials and romance in 18th-century Scotland and the Netherlands.
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C.
Jan Maire
Jan Maire was a 17th-century publisher known for issuing René Descartes’ seminal philosophical work "Discours de la méthode."
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D.
Aisling
Aisling is a notable film or project associated with acclaimed British cinematographer Dick Pope, recognized for his visually distinctive work.
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E.
Fiona
Fiona is a central character in the Shrek film series, an ogre princess known for her bravery, independence, and unconventional fairy-tale romance with Shrek.
- 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: Mairi Target entity description: Mairi is a Scottish Gaelic form of the given name Mary, commonly used in Scotland and Gaelic-speaking communities.
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A.
Catriona
Catriona is a feminine given name of Gaelic origin, commonly used in Scotland and Ireland and often considered a variant of Katherine.
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B.
Catriona
Catriona is a historical adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that continues the story begun in Kidnapped, following David Balfour’s further trials and romance in 18th-century Scotland and the Netherlands.
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C.
Jan Maire
Jan Maire was a 17th-century publisher known for issuing René Descartes’ seminal philosophical work "Discours de la méthode."
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D.
Aisling
Aisling is a notable film or project associated with acclaimed British cinematographer Dick Pope, recognized for his visually distinctive work.
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E.
Fiona
Fiona is a central character in the Shrek film series, an ogre princess known for her bravery, independence, and unconventional fairy-tale romance with Shrek.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish Gaelic given name
ⓘ
feminine given name ⓘ given name ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Feminine forms of Mary
ⓘ
Gaelic-language feminine given names ⓘ Scottish feminine given names ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | Scottish ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalOrigin | Hebrew name Miriam (via Mary) ⓘ |
| hasGender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasNameDayRelation |
Mary (Christian tradition)
ⓘ
linked to:
Virgin Mary
|
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasUsageCommunity | Gaelic-speaking communities ⓘ |
| hasUsageRegion | Scotland ⓘ |
| isFormOf | Mary ⓘ |
| isRelatedName |
Maire
ⓘ
Maria ⓘ Marie ⓘ Mary ⓘ Mhairi ⓘ
linked to:
Mairi
|
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: Mairi Description of subject: Mairi is a Scottish Gaelic form of the given name Mary, commonly used in Scotland and Gaelic-speaking communities.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mairi
linked to: Mairi
linked to: Mairi