Terence MacSwiney
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Terence MacSwiney was an Irish playwright, politician, and Lord Mayor of Cork whose death on hunger strike in 1920 made him an international symbol of resistance to British rule.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Terence MacSwiney canonical | 12 |
| Terence James MacSwiney | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2350662 — 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: Terence MacSwiney Context triple: [Presentation Brothers College, Cork, hasAlumni, Terence MacSwiney]
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A.
Joseph Plunkett
Joseph Plunkett was an Irish nationalist, poet, and one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising who was executed for his role in the rebellion.
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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.
Patrick Pearse
Patrick Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, and revolutionary leader who served as one of the principal organizers and the symbolic figurehead of the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule.
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D.
Michael Davitt
Michael Davitt was a 19th-century Irish republican and social reformer best known as a founder of the Irish National Land League and a key figure in the Land War.
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E.
Thomas Clarke
Thomas Clarke was a leading Irish republican revolutionary and one of the principal organizers of the 1916 Easter Rising, later executed for his role in the rebellion.
- 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: Terence MacSwiney Target entity description: Terence MacSwiney was an Irish playwright, politician, and Lord Mayor of Cork whose death on hunger strike in 1920 made him an international symbol of resistance to British rule.
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A.
Joseph Plunkett
Joseph Plunkett was an Irish nationalist, poet, and one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising who was executed for his role in the rebellion.
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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.
Patrick Pearse
Patrick Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, and revolutionary leader who served as one of the principal organizers and the symbolic figurehead of the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule.
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D.
Michael Davitt
Michael Davitt was a 19th-century Irish republican and social reformer best known as a founder of the Irish National Land League and a key figure in the Land War.
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E.
Thomas Clarke
Thomas Clarke was a leading Irish republican revolutionary and one of the principal organizers of the 1916 Easter Rising, later executed for his role in the rebellion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Terence MacSwiney Description of subject: Terence MacSwiney was an Irish playwright, politician, and Lord Mayor of Cork whose death on hunger strike in 1920 made him an international symbol of resistance to British rule.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.