Mc
E95023
Mc is a Gaelic patronymic prefix meaning "son of," commonly found in Scottish and Irish surnames.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mc canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T799675 — 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: Mc Context triple: [McDouglas, hasEtymologicalElement, Mc]
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A.
MC
MC is the official abbreviation for NATO’s highest military authority, the NATO Military Committee.
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B.
MC
MC is the postnominal abbreviation used to denote recipients of the Military Cross, a British military decoration awarded for gallantry during active operations against the enemy.
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C.
CM
CM is the post-nominal letters used to denote a Member of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors.
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D.
MK
MK is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to North Macedonia.
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E.
MP
MP is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to the Northern Mariana Islands.
- 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: Mc Target entity description: Mc is a Gaelic patronymic prefix meaning "son of," commonly found in Scottish and Irish surnames.
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A.
MC
MC is the official abbreviation for NATO’s highest military authority, the NATO Military Committee.
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B.
MC
MC is the postnominal abbreviation used to denote recipients of the Military Cross, a British military decoration awarded for gallantry during active operations against the enemy.
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C.
CM
CM is the post-nominal letters used to denote a Member of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors.
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D.
MK
MK is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to North Macedonia.
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E.
MP
MP is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to the Northern Mariana Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gaelic linguistic element
ⓘ
patronymic prefix ⓘ surname prefix ⓘ |
| category | Gaelic patronymic ⓘ |
| commonInRegion |
Ireland
ⓘ
Irish diaspora ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Scottish diaspora ⓘ Ulster ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
Nic
ⓘ
Ní ⓘ O' ⓘ |
| denotesGender | male descent ⓘ |
| denotesRelationship | filial relationship ⓘ |
| etymologicallyRelatedTo | Mac ⓘ |
| fieldOfUse |
genealogy
ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ onomastics ⓘ |
| firstCharacter | M ⓘ |
| hasExampleSurname |
McCarthy
ⓘ
McDonald ⓘ McGregor ⓘ McKenzie ⓘ McMahon ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Irish Gaelic
ⓘ
linked to:
Irish language
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| meaning | son of ⓘ |
| orthographicVariantOf | Mac- prefix ⓘ |
| positionInName | prefix ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| secondCharacter | c ⓘ |
| shortenedFormOf | Mac ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Irish surnames
ⓘ
Scottish surnames ⓘ |
| usedInOnomastics | Celtic surnames ⓘ |
| usedToIndicate | paternal lineage ⓘ |
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: Mc Description of subject: Mc is a Gaelic patronymic prefix meaning "son of," commonly found in Scottish and Irish surnames.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.