Mac Conmara
E814665
Mac Conmara is an Irish Gaelic surname historically associated with a prominent family of the Dál gCais lineage in Munster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mac Conmara canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9272760 — 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: Mac Conmara Context triple: [Dál gCais, dynasticSurname, Mac Conmara]
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A.
Mac Cuinn
Mac Cuinn is an Irish Gaelic surname from which the Anglicised form "Quinn" is derived.
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B.
Suilleabháin
Suilleabháin is an Irish surname, traditionally anglicized as Sullivan, with roots in Gaelic heritage and history.
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C.
Domnall Brecc
Domnall Brecc was a 7th-century king of Dál Riata in what is now western Scotland, known for his military defeats and the decline of his kingdom’s power during his reign.
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D.
Mac Dhùghaill
Mac Dhùghaill is a Scottish Gaelic surname that represents the original Gaelic form of the anglicized name MacDougall.
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E.
MacJohn
MacJohn is a surname variant of Johnson, typically reflecting a Gaelic-influenced patronymic form meaning "son of John."
- 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: Mac Conmara Target entity description: Mac Conmara is an Irish Gaelic surname historically associated with a prominent family of the Dál gCais lineage in Munster.
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A.
Mac Cuinn
Mac Cuinn is an Irish Gaelic surname from which the Anglicised form "Quinn" is derived.
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B.
Suilleabháin
Suilleabháin is an Irish surname, traditionally anglicized as Sullivan, with roots in Gaelic heritage and history.
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C.
Domnall Brecc
Domnall Brecc was a 7th-century king of Dál Riata in what is now western Scotland, known for his military defeats and the decline of his kingdom’s power during his reign.
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D.
Mac Dhùghaill
Mac Dhùghaill is a Scottish Gaelic surname that represents the original Gaelic form of the anglicized name MacDougall.
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E.
MacJohn
MacJohn is a surname variant of Johnson, typically reflecting a Gaelic-influenced patronymic form meaning "son of John."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gaelic-language surname
ⓘ
Irish surname ⓘ |
| associatedGivenName | Conmara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty | Dál gCais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithHistoricalProvince | Munster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithModernCounty | County Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople | Gaels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion |
Munster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thomond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Irish-language surnames
ⓘ
Patronymic surnames ⓘ Surnames of Irish origin ⓘ |
| countryOfCulturalOrigin | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| derivedFromLanguage | Gaeilge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| etymologyContains |
Conmara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
mac ⓘ |
| hasAnglicisedForm |
MacNamara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
McNamara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
Mac Conmara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MacConmara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
MacNamara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
McNamara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicallyBorneBy | members of the Dál gCais kindred ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | prominent Gaelic family of Dál gCais ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| meaning | son of Conmara ⓘ |
| meaningOfElement_mac | son of ⓘ |
| nameType | patronymic ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| traditionalRole | chieftain family in Thomond ⓘ |
| usedByEthnicGroup | Irish people ⓘ |
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: Mac Conmara Description of subject: Mac Conmara is an Irish Gaelic surname historically associated with a prominent family of the Dál gCais lineage in Munster.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.