McIldowie
E211996
McIldowie is a relatively uncommon Scottish-origin surname associated with individuals such as Mr Hudson.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McIldowie canonical | 2 |
| MacIldowie | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1909974 — 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: McIldowie Context triple: [Mr Hudson, familyName, McIldowie]
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A.
Kinnaird
Kinnaird is a historic Scottish estate and locality traditionally associated with the Carnegie family and the title of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird.
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B.
Cleghorn
Cleghorn is a residential neighborhood within the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
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C.
Lefroy
Lefroy is a small lakeside community within the town of Innisfil in Simcoe County, Ontario, known for its residential neighborhoods and access to Lake Simcoe.
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D.
Sholto
Sholto is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, historically associated with figures such as military leaders and nobles.
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E.
Ewart
Ewart is a given name notably borne by the 19th-century British statesman William Ewart Gladstone.
- 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: McIldowie Target entity description: McIldowie is a relatively uncommon Scottish-origin surname associated with individuals such as Mr Hudson.
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A.
Kinnaird
Kinnaird is a historic Scottish estate and locality traditionally associated with the Carnegie family and the title of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird.
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B.
Cleghorn
Cleghorn is a residential neighborhood within the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
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C.
Lefroy
Lefroy is a small lakeside community within the town of Innisfil in Simcoe County, Ontario, known for its residential neighborhoods and access to Lake Simcoe.
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D.
Sholto
Sholto is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, historically associated with figures such as military leaders and nobles.
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E.
Ewart
Ewart is a given name notably borne by the 19th-century British statesman William Ewart Gladstone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling |
McIldowie
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
MacIldowie
M’Illdowie ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | Scottish ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Mr Hudson McIldowie ⓘ |
| isClassifiedAs | uncommon 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: McIldowie Description of subject: McIldowie is a relatively uncommon Scottish-origin surname associated with individuals such as Mr Hudson.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
MacIldowie