McCarthy
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McCarthy is a common Irish surname historically associated with the powerful MacCarthy dynasty of Munster and borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, and public life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McCarthy canonical | 22 |
| McCarthy 1959 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1374264 — 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: McCarthy Context triple: [Eugene McCarthy, familyName, McCarthy]
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A.
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator from Wisconsin best known for leading aggressive anti-communist investigations in the early 1950s that fueled a climate of political fear and repression.
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B.
Harry Burns
Harry Burns is the witty, neurotic male lead in the romantic comedy film "When Harry Met Sally...".
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C.
McKean
McKean is a Scottish and Irish surname borne by various notable individuals, including American Founding Father Thomas McKean.
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D.
Franklin McCain
Franklin McCain was a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped launch the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
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E.
Buckley
Buckley is a surname most prominently associated with William F. Buckley Jr., the influential American conservative author and founder of National Review.
- 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: McCarthy Target entity description: McCarthy is a common Irish surname historically associated with the powerful MacCarthy dynasty of Munster and borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, and public life.
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A.
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator from Wisconsin best known for leading aggressive anti-communist investigations in the early 1950s that fueled a climate of political fear and repression.
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B.
Harry Burns
Harry Burns is the witty, neurotic male lead in the romantic comedy film "When Harry Met Sally...".
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C.
McKean
McKean is a Scottish and Irish surname borne by various notable individuals, including American Founding Father Thomas McKean.
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D.
Franklin McCain
Franklin McCain was a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped launch the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
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E.
Buckley
Buckley is a surname most prominently associated with William F. Buckley Jr., the influential American conservative author and founder of National Review.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish surname
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty | MacCarthy dynasty ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Suilleabháin
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surface form:
Mac Carthaigh
|
| hasCategory |
Anglicised Irish-language surnames
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Irish families ⓘ Surnames of Irish origin ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName |
McCarthy
self-linksurface differs
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McCarthy self-linksurface differs ⓘ McCarthy self-linksurface differs ⓘ McCarthy self-linksurface differs ⓘ McCarthy self-linksurface differs ⓘ McCarthy self-linksurface differs ⓘ McCarthy self-linksurface differs ⓘ McCarthy self-linksurface differs ⓘ McCarthy self-linksurface differs ⓘ McCarthy self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | son of Carthach ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Andrew McCarthy
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Carroll McCarthy ⓘ Cormac McCarthy ⓘ Eugene McCarthy ⓘ John McCarthy ⓘ Joseph McCarthy ⓘ Justin McCarthy ⓘ Kevin McCarthy ⓘ Mary McCarthy ⓘ Paul McCarthy ⓘ Todd McCarthy ⓘ |
| hasRegionOfOrigin |
Ireland
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Munster ⓘ |
| historicallyAssociatedWith |
Kingdom of Desmond
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Munster nobility ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Joseph McCarthy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
McCarthyism
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development of Lisp programming language ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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actor ⓘ artist ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ film critic ⓘ historian ⓘ novelist ⓘ politician ⓘ politician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| variantOf | MacCarthy ⓘ |
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: McCarthy Description of subject: McCarthy is a common Irish surname historically associated with the powerful MacCarthy dynasty of Munster and borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, and public life.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Programs with Common Sense
this entity surface form:
McCarthy 1959
subject surface form:
John McCarthy
subject surface form:
Joseph Raymond McCarthy
subject surface form:
Joseph McCarthy
subject surface form:
Cormac McCarthy
subject surface form:
Andrew McCarthy
subject surface form:
Eugene McCarthy
subject surface form:
Mary McCarthy
subject surface form:
Todd McCarthy
subject surface form:
Paul McCarthy
subject surface form:
Kevin McCarthy
subject surface form:
Justin McCarthy
subject surface form:
John McCarthy
subject surface form:
Cormac McCarthy