Ó Donnabháin
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Ó Donnabháin is an Irish Gaelic surname from which the anglicized family name Donovan is derived.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donnabhán | 3 |
| Ó Donnabháin canonical | 3 |
| O Donnabhain | 1 |
| Ó Donnabhán | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6459298 — 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: Ó Donnabháin Context triple: [Donovan, hasAnglicisationOf, Ó Donnabháin]
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A.
Suilleabháin
Suilleabháin is an Irish surname, traditionally anglicized as Sullivan, with roots in Gaelic heritage and history.
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B.
Ó Conchobhair
Ó Conchobhair is an Irish Gaelic surname that is the original form of the anglicized name O'Connor, historically associated with several prominent Irish dynasties and families.
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C.
Mac Dhùghaill
Mac Dhùghaill is a Scottish Gaelic surname that represents the original Gaelic form of the anglicized name MacDougall.
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D.
Ó Nualláin
Ó Nualláin is an Irish-language surname that corresponds to the anglicized family name Nolan.
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E.
Conachair
Conachair is a prominent sea cliff and the highest peak on the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda, known for its dramatic Atlantic-facing precipices.
- 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: Ó Donnabháin Target entity description: Ó Donnabháin is an Irish Gaelic surname from which the anglicized family name Donovan is derived.
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A.
Suilleabháin
Suilleabháin is an Irish surname, traditionally anglicized as Sullivan, with roots in Gaelic heritage and history.
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B.
Ó Conchobhair
Ó Conchobhair is an Irish Gaelic surname that is the original form of the anglicized name O'Connor, historically associated with several prominent Irish dynasties and families.
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C.
Mac Dhùghaill
Mac Dhùghaill is a Scottish Gaelic surname that represents the original Gaelic form of the anglicized name MacDougall.
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D.
Ó Nualláin
Ó Nualláin is an Irish-language surname that corresponds to the anglicized family name Nolan.
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E.
Conachair
Conachair is a prominent sea cliff and the highest peak on the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda, known for its dramatic Atlantic-facing precipices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish-language surname
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| anglicisedForm | Donovan ⓘ |
| associatedWithClan | O'Donovan clan ⓘ |
| category |
Anglicised Irish-language surnames
ⓘ
Irish-language surnames ⓘ Surnames of Irish origin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Donnabhán
ⓘ
linked to:
Ó Donnabháin
|
| etymologyRoot | donn (brown) ⓘ |
| hasDiacritic | síneadh fada ⓘ |
| hasVariant | O'Donovan ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| meaning | descendant of Donnabhán ⓘ |
| region | Munster ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
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: Ó Donnabháin Description of subject: Ó Donnabháin is an Irish Gaelic surname from which the anglicized family name Donovan is derived.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ó Donnabháin
linked to: Ó Donnabháin
linked to: Ó Donnabháin
linked to: Ó Donnabháin
linked to: Ó Donnabháin