Theobald Wolfe Tone
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Theobald Wolfe Tone was an Irish revolutionary and founding member of the United Irishmen who sought to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish republic.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Theobald Wolfe Tone canonical | 16 |
| Wolfe Tone | 3 |
| William Theobald Wolfe Tone | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1235120 — 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: Theobald Wolfe Tone Context triple: [Irish Rebellion of 1798, leader, Theobald Wolfe Tone]
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William Smith O'Brien
William Smith O'Brien was a 19th-century Irish nationalist leader and Young Ireland movement figure who played a prominent role in the 1848 rebellion against British rule.
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B.
Cathal Brugha
Cathal Brugha was an Irish revolutionary leader and politician who played a key role in the struggle for independence, serving as a senior commander in the IRA and later as the first chairman of Dáil Éireann.
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C.
James Connolly
James Connolly was an American athlete and scholar best known as the first Olympic champion of the modern era, winning the triple jump at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
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D.
Patrick Sarsfield
Patrick Sarsfield was a prominent Irish Jacobite military leader best known for his daring cavalry raids and key role in the defense of Limerick during the late 17th-century conflicts with Williamite forces.
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E.
Feargus O'Connor
Feargus O'Connor was a prominent 19th-century Irish-born radical politician and journalist who became the most influential and charismatic leader of the British Chartist movement for democratic reform.
- 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: Theobald Wolfe Tone Target entity description: Theobald Wolfe Tone was an Irish revolutionary and founding member of the United Irishmen who sought to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish republic.
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A.
William Smith O'Brien
William Smith O'Brien was a 19th-century Irish nationalist leader and Young Ireland movement figure who played a prominent role in the 1848 rebellion against British rule.
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B.
Cathal Brugha
Cathal Brugha was an Irish revolutionary leader and politician who played a key role in the struggle for independence, serving as a senior commander in the IRA and later as the first chairman of Dáil Éireann.
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C.
James Connolly
James Connolly was an American athlete and scholar best known as the first Olympic champion of the modern era, winning the triple jump at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
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D.
Patrick Sarsfield
Patrick Sarsfield was a prominent Irish Jacobite military leader best known for his daring cavalry raids and key role in the defense of Limerick during the late 17th-century conflicts with Williamite forces.
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E.
Feargus O'Connor
Feargus O'Connor was a prominent 19th-century Irish-born radical politician and journalist who became the most influential and charismatic leader of the British Chartist movement for democratic reform.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Theobald Wolfe Tone Description of subject: Theobald Wolfe Tone was an Irish revolutionary and founding member of the United Irishmen who sought to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish republic.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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