Thomas McElwee
E224244
Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas McElwee canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T833169 — 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: Thomas McElwee Context triple: [Hunger strikes of 1981, notableDeath, Thomas McElwee]
-
A.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
-
B.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
-
C.
William McSweeny
William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
-
D.
Johnston McCulley
Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
-
E.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
- 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: Thomas McElwee Target entity description: Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
-
A.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
-
B.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
-
C.
William McSweeny
William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
-
D.
Johnston McCulley
Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
-
E.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish nationalist
ⓘ
Irish republican ⓘ Provisional Irish Republican Army member ⓘ hunger striker ⓘ |
| birthName | Thomas McElwee ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
hunger strike
ⓘ
starvation ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Republican memorials in Bellaghy
ⓘ
annual republican commemorations of 1981 hunger strikers ⓘ |
| conflict | The Troubles ⓘ |
| convictedOf | offences related to IRA activities ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1957-11-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1981-08-08 ⓘ |
| deathManner | self-imposed hunger strike ⓘ |
| detainedAt |
Long Kesh prison
ⓘ
Maze Prison ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | paramilitary volunteer ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Francis Hughes ⓘ |
| ideology |
Irish nationalism
ⓘ
Irish republicanism ⓘ |
| memberOf | Provisional Irish Republican Army ⓘ |
| movement | Irish republicanism ⓘ |
| notableWork | Participation in the 1981 Irish hunger strike ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1981 Irish hunger strike
ⓘ
linked to:
Hunger strikes of 1981
Maze Prison hunger strike ⓘ |
| partOf | group of ten prisoners who died in the 1981 Irish hunger strike ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
ⓘ
County Derry, Northern Ireland ⓘ
linked to:
County Londonderry
|
| placeOfDeath |
Long Kesh, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
ⓘ
Maze Prison ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
Provisional IRA
ⓘ
linked to:
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Sinn Féin-supporting republican movement ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
County Londonderry
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sibling | Francis Hughes ⓘ |
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: Thomas McElwee Description of subject: Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.