The Irish Rover
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The Irish Rover is a popular Irish folk song best known in its rousing 1987 rendition by The Pogues with The Dubliners, telling the humorous tale of a fantastical ship and its ill-fated voyage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Irish Rover canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18093718 — 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: The Irish Rover Context triple: [The Pogues, notableWork, The Irish Rover]
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A.
The Waif
The Waif is a mysterious and ruthless acolyte of the Faceless Men in Game of Thrones, known for training and tormenting Arya Stark in the House of Black and White.
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B.
The Irish R.M.
The Irish R.M. is a British-Irish television comedy-drama series set in early 20th-century rural Ireland, following an English magistrate as he navigates the eccentricities and complexities of local Irish society.
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C.
The Southern Star
The Southern Star is a regional newspaper serving the town of Skibbereen and the surrounding West Cork area in Ireland.
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D.
The Star Rover
The Star Rover is a 1915 novel by Jack London that blends prison realism with mystical astral projection, following an inmate who escapes torture by journeying through his past lives.
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E.
Blood's a Rover
"Blood's a Rover" is a noir crime novel by James Ellroy that concludes his Underworld USA Trilogy, exploring political corruption, racial conflict, and covert operations in late-1960s and early-1970s America.
- 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: The Irish Rover Target entity description: The Irish Rover is a popular Irish folk song best known in its rousing 1987 rendition by The Pogues with The Dubliners, telling the humorous tale of a fantastical ship and its ill-fated voyage.
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A.
The Waif
The Waif is a mysterious and ruthless acolyte of the Faceless Men in Game of Thrones, known for training and tormenting Arya Stark in the House of Black and White.
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B.
The Irish R.M.
The Irish R.M. is a British-Irish television comedy-drama series set in early 20th-century rural Ireland, following an English magistrate as he navigates the eccentricities and complexities of local Irish society.
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C.
The Southern Star
The Southern Star is a regional newspaper serving the town of Skibbereen and the surrounding West Cork area in Ireland.
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D.
The Star Rover
The Star Rover is a 1915 novel by Jack London that blends prison realism with mystical astral projection, following an inmate who escapes torture by journeying through his past lives.
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E.
Blood's a Rover
"Blood's a Rover" is a noir crime novel by James Ellroy that concludes his Underworld USA Trilogy, exploring political corruption, racial conflict, and covert operations in late-1960s and early-1970s America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.