Rory McIlroy
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Rory McIlroy is a Northern Irish professional golfer, multiple major champion, and one of the most prominent figures in modern golf.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rory McIlroy canonical | 27 |
| McIlroy | 2 |
| @McIlroyRory | 1 |
| Rory Daniel McIlroy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2715222 — 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: Rory McIlroy Context triple: [TGL, coFounder, Rory McIlroy]
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A.
Peter Casey
Peter Casey is an American television producer and writer best known as a co-creator of the acclaimed sitcom "Frasier."
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B.
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport’s history, known for his major championship victories and transformative impact on golf’s popularity worldwide.
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C.
John Daly
John Daly was a prominent British film producer known for backing influential independent and Oscar-winning films through his company Hemdale Film Corporation.
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D.
John Daly
John Daly was a local landowner and civic figure after whom the Californian city of Daly City was named.
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E.
Sir Nick Faldo
Sir Nick Faldo is an English professional golfer renowned for winning six major championships and becoming one of Europe's most successful and influential players in the history of the sport.
- 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: Rory McIlroy Target entity description: Rory McIlroy is a Northern Irish professional golfer, multiple major champion, and one of the most prominent figures in modern golf.
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A.
Peter Casey
Peter Casey is an American television producer and writer best known as a co-creator of the acclaimed sitcom "Frasier."
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B.
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport’s history, known for his major championship victories and transformative impact on golf’s popularity worldwide.
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C.
John Daly
John Daly was a local landowner and civic figure after whom the Californian city of Daly City was named.
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D.
John Daly
John Daly was a prominent British film producer known for backing influential independent and Oscar-winning films through his company Hemdale Film Corporation.
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E.
Sir Nick Faldo
Sir Nick Faldo is an English professional golfer renowned for winning six major championships and becoming one of Europe's most successful and influential players in the history of the sport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Rory McIlroy Description of subject: Rory McIlroy is a Northern Irish professional golfer, multiple major champion, and one of the most prominent figures in modern golf.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Rory McIlroy
linked to: Rory McIlroy
linked to: Rory McIlroy
linked to: Rory McIlroy
subject linked to:
Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland