Ó Máille
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Ó Máille is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin traditionally associated with the historic O'Malley clan of County Mayo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ó Máille canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9563382 — 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 Máille Context triple: [O'Malley, hasVariant, Ó Máille]
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A.
Ailill mac Máta
Ailill mac Máta is a legendary king of Connacht in early Irish mythology, best known as the husband of Queen Medb in the Ulster Cycle tales.
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B.
Ó Nualláin
Ó Nualláin is an Irish-language surname that corresponds to the anglicized family name Nolan.
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C.
Maire
Maire is a given name, commonly used as an Irish or Scottish Gaelic form of Mary.
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D.
Maire
Maire is the French term for a municipality’s chief elected official, equivalent to a mayor.
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E.
Fingal
Fingal is a county in eastern Ireland, north of Dublin, known for its coastal towns, historical sites, and rapidly growing suburban communities.
- 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 Máille Target entity description: Ó Máille is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin traditionally associated with the historic O'Malley clan of County Mayo.
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A.
Ailill mac Máta
Ailill mac Máta is a legendary king of Connacht in early Irish mythology, best known as the husband of Queen Medb in the Ulster Cycle tales.
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B.
Ó Nualláin
Ó Nualláin is an Irish-language surname that corresponds to the anglicized family name Nolan.
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C.
Maire
Maire is a given name, commonly used as an Irish or Scottish Gaelic form of Mary.
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D.
Maire
Maire is the French term for a municipality’s chief elected official, equivalent to a mayor.
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E.
Fingal
Fingal is a county in eastern Ireland, north of Dublin, known for its coastal towns, historical sites, and rapidly growing suburban communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gaelic-language surname
ⓘ
Irish surname ⓘ |
| associatedClan |
O'Malley clan
ⓘ
linked to:
O’Malley clan
|
| associatedWithCounty | County Mayo ⓘ |
| category |
Families of Irish ancestry
ⓘ
Irish-language surnames ⓘ Surnames of Irish origin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Irish Gaelic ⓘ |
| derivedFromLanguage | Gaeilge ⓘ |
| ethnicAssociation | Irish people ⓘ |
| hasAnglicisedForm |
Malley
ⓘ
O'Malley ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
O Máille
ⓘ
Ó Mháille ⓘ |
| historicalAssociation |
Gaelic nobility of Connacht
ⓘ
seafaring families of western Ireland ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| meaning | descendant of Máille ⓘ |
| provinceOfOrigin | Connacht ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | County Mayo ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| surnameType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory | County Mayo ⓘ |
| usesDiacritics | síneadh fada ⓘ |
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 Máille Description of subject: Ó Máille is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin traditionally associated with the historic O'Malley clan of County Mayo.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.