Mac Diarmada
E411205
Mac Diarmada is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin, historically associated with a prominent clan in Connacht.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mac Diarmada canonical | 3 |
| Mac Carthy | 1 |
| Mac Diarmada (MacDermot) | 1 |
| Mac Diarmata | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4069901 — 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: Mac Diarmada Context triple: [McDermott, hasVariant, Mac Diarmada]
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A.
Seán Mac Eoin
Seán Mac Eoin was an Irish revolutionary leader and later a senior military and political figure in the Irish Free State, renowned for his role in the War of Independence and subsequent national army service.
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B.
Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor was an Irish post-impressionist painter known for his bold use of color and texture and his association with avant-garde artists in late 19th-century France.
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C.
Pádraig
Pádraig is the Irish form of the given name Patrick, traditionally associated with Saint Patrick and widely used in Irish culture.
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D.
Tomás Mac Curtain
Tomás Mac Curtain was an Irish republican revolutionary and politician who served as Lord Mayor of Cork and was assassinated in 1920 during the Irish War of Independence.
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E.
Seán
Seán is the Irish form of the given name John, commonly used as a male first name in Ireland.
- 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: Mac Diarmada Target entity description: Mac Diarmada is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin, historically associated with a prominent clan in Connacht.
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A.
Seán Mac Eoin
Seán Mac Eoin was an Irish revolutionary leader and later a senior military and political figure in the Irish Free State, renowned for his role in the War of Independence and subsequent national army service.
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B.
Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor was an Irish post-impressionist painter known for his bold use of color and texture and his association with avant-garde artists in late 19th-century France.
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C.
Pádraig
Pádraig is the Irish form of the given name Patrick, traditionally associated with Saint Patrick and widely used in Irish culture.
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D.
Tomás Mac Curtain
Tomás Mac Curtain was an Irish republican revolutionary and politician who served as Lord Mayor of Cork and was assassinated in 1920 during the Irish War of Independence.
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E.
Seán
Seán is the Irish form of the given name John, commonly used as a male first name in Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gaelic-language surname
ⓘ
Irish surname ⓘ patronymic surname ⓘ |
| anglicisedForm |
MacDermot
ⓘ
MacDermott ⓘ McDermot ⓘ McDermott ⓘ |
| associatedWithClan | Clan Mac Diarmada ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty | MacDermot dynasty ⓘ |
| category |
Irish-language surnames
ⓘ
Patronymic surnames ⓘ Surnames of Irish origin ⓘ |
| clanSeat |
Cruachan Ai
ⓘ
linked to:
Cruachan
|
| clanTerritory | Magh Luirg ⓘ |
| derivedFromLanguage | Goidelic ⓘ |
| DiarmadaIsGenitiveOf |
Diarmaid
ⓘ
linked to:
Diarmuid
|
| etymologicallyContains |
Diarmada
ⓘ
linked to:
Diarmuid
Mac ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | son of Diarmaid ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Seán Mac Diarmada ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Mac Diarmata
ⓘ
linked to:
Mac Diarmada
|
| historicallyAssociatedWith |
Connacht
ⓘ
County Roscommon ⓘ County Sligo ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | name of a ruling family in Connacht ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| MacMeans | son ⓘ |
| regionOfPrevalence |
Connacht
ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ |
| usedAs |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
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: Mac Diarmada Description of subject: Mac Diarmada is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin, historically associated with a prominent clan in Connacht.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mac Diarmada
linked to: Mac Diarmada