Patrick McCabe
E257833
Patrick McCabe is an Irish novelist best known for his darkly comic and psychologically intense works, including "The Butcher Boy" and "Breakfast on Pluto."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick McCabe canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2350793 — 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: Patrick McCabe Context triple: [Breakfast on Pluto, authorOfSourceWork, Patrick McCabe]
-
A.
Iain Reid
Iain Reid is a Canadian author best known for his psychologically suspenseful novels such as "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" and "Foe."
-
B.
Seán Lester
Seán Lester was an Irish diplomat best known for serving as the last Secretary-General of the League of Nations during its final years before the transition to the United Nations.
-
C.
Claire Finn
Claire Finn is a skilled and compassionate chief medical officer aboard the exploratory spaceship in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
-
D.
Douglas Stuart
Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American novelist best known for his debut novel "Shuggie Bain," which won the Booker Prize.
-
E.
Laurence McKeown
Laurence McKeown is an Irish former Provisional IRA member, writer, and academic who became known for his participation in the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike and later work on conflict, memory, and reconciliation.
- 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: Patrick McCabe Target entity description: Patrick McCabe is an Irish novelist best known for his darkly comic and psychologically intense works, including "The Butcher Boy" and "Breakfast on Pluto."
-
A.
Iain Reid
Iain Reid is a Canadian author best known for his psychologically suspenseful novels such as "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" and "Foe."
-
B.
Seán Lester
Seán Lester was an Irish diplomat best known for serving as the last Secretary-General of the League of Nations during its final years before the transition to the United Nations.
-
C.
Claire Finn
Claire Finn is a skilled and compassionate chief medical officer aboard the exploratory spaceship in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
-
D.
Douglas Stuart
Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American novelist best known for his debut novel "Shuggie Bain," which won the Booker Prize.
-
E.
Laurence McKeown
Laurence McKeown is an Irish former Provisional IRA member, writer, and academic who became known for his participation in the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike and later work on conflict, memory, and reconciliation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish writer
ⓘ
human ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
21st century
ⓘ
late 20th century ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction
ⓘ
linked to:
Irish Times International Fiction Prize
|
| basedOn | Irish social and political history ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Neil Jordan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1955-03-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
St Patrick's College, Maynooth
ⓘ
linked to:
Maynooth College
University College Galway ⓘ
linked to:
University of Galway
|
| fieldOfWork | contemporary Irish literature ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Breakfast on Pluto (2005 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Breakfast on Pluto
The Butcher Boy (1997 film) ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
identity
ⓘ
mental illness ⓘ small-town Irish life ⓘ social marginalization ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| hasWritingStyle |
darkly comic
ⓘ
psychologically intense ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Catholic upbringing
ⓘ
Irish rural life ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary fiction ⓘ |
| name | Patrick McCabe ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Booker Prize
ⓘ
Booker Prize for Breakfast on Pluto ⓘ Booker Prize for The Butcher Boy ⓘ
linked to:
Booker Prize
|
| notableWork |
Breakfast on Pluto
ⓘ
Emerald Germs of Ireland ⓘ Mondo Desperado ⓘ The Butcher Boy ⓘ The Dead School ⓘ The Holy City ⓘ The Stray Sod Country ⓘ Winterwood ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland ⓘ |
| workLocation | Ireland ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
Breakfast on Pluto (2005 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Breakfast on Pluto
The Butcher Boy (1997 film) ⓘ |
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: Patrick McCabe Description of subject: Patrick McCabe is an Irish novelist best known for his darkly comic and psychologically intense works, including "The Butcher Boy" and "Breakfast on Pluto."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.