Iris Hewson
E131204
Iris Hewson was the mother of U2 frontman Bono and a significant early influence on his life and music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iris Hewson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1130513 — 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: Iris Hewson Context triple: [Bono, parent, Iris Hewson]
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A.
Emily Maitlis
Emily Maitlis is a prominent British journalist and broadcaster best known as a former lead presenter of BBC Newsnight and co-host of the podcast "The News Agents."
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B.
Anne Leon
Anne Leon is known as the spouse of English character actor Michael Gough, famed for his role as Alfred in the Batman film series.
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C.
Verity Faulks
Verity Faulks is the wife of British novelist Sebastian Faulks, known for maintaining a private life largely out of the public eye despite her husband's literary prominence.
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D.
Fiona Hill
Fiona Hill is a British-American foreign policy expert and former U.S. National Security Council official known for her expertise on Russia and her testimony in the first Trump impeachment inquiry.
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E.
Zoe Pilger
Zoe Pilger is a British novelist, art critic, and journalist known for her debut novel "Eat My Heart Out" and her writing on contemporary feminism and culture.
- 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: Iris Hewson Target entity description: Iris Hewson was the mother of U2 frontman Bono and a significant early influence on his life and music.
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A.
Emily Maitlis
Emily Maitlis is a prominent British journalist and broadcaster best known as a former lead presenter of BBC Newsnight and co-host of the podcast "The News Agents."
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B.
Anne Leon
Anne Leon is known as the spouse of English character actor Michael Gough, famed for his role as Alfred in the Batman film series.
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C.
Verity Faulks
Verity Faulks is the wife of British novelist Sebastian Faulks, known for maintaining a private life largely out of the public eye despite her husband's literary prominence.
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D.
Fiona Hill
Fiona Hill is a British-American foreign policy expert and former U.S. National Security Council official known for her expertise on Russia and her testimony in the first Trump impeachment inquiry.
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E.
Zoe Pilger
Zoe Pilger is a British novelist, art critic, and journalist known for her debut novel "Eat My Heart Out" and her writing on contemporary feminism and culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mother ⓘ |
| causeOfInspirationFor | themes of loss in U2 songs ⓘ |
| child | Bono ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| describedAs | significant early influence on Bono ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish people ⓘ |
| familyName | Hewson ⓘ |
| hasReligion |
Anglicanism
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
|
| hasSon | Bono ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bono
ⓘ
Bono's early life ⓘ Bono's music ⓘ |
| memberOf | Church of Ireland ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | death during Bono's adolescence ⓘ |
| notableIn | Bono's personal history ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Bono ⓘ |
| notableWork | inspiration for Bono's songwriting ⓘ |
| parentOf | Bono ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ireland ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Dublin ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Dublin ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Bob Hewson ⓘ |
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: Iris Hewson Description of subject: Iris Hewson was the mother of U2 frontman Bono and a significant early influence on his life and music.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.