O'Herlihy
E336561
O'Herlihy is an Irish surname associated with figures in film, television, and the arts.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3189713 — 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: O'Herlihy Context triple: [Michael O'Herlihy, familyName, O'Herlihy]
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A.
Guilfoyle
Guilfoyle is a surname most prominently associated in contemporary American culture with television personality and political figure Kimberly Guilfoyle.
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B.
McGillicuddy
McGillicuddy is an Irish-origin surname best known as the birth name of legendary American baseball manager Connie Mack.
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C.
O’Flaherty
O’Flaherty is the birth surname of American author Kate Chopin, known for her pioneering works of feminist literature in the late 19th century.
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D.
O'Nolan
O'Nolan is an Irish surname, often associated with notable literary and historical figures from Ireland.
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E.
O'Cullen
O'Cullen is an Irish surname, a variant of Cullen, typically associated with Gaelic family lineages.
- 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: O'Herlihy Target entity description: O'Herlihy is an Irish surname associated with figures in film, television, and the arts.
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A.
Guilfoyle
Guilfoyle is a surname most prominently associated in contemporary American culture with television personality and political figure Kimberly Guilfoyle.
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B.
McGillicuddy
McGillicuddy is an Irish-origin surname best known as the birth name of legendary American baseball manager Connie Mack.
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C.
O’Flaherty
O’Flaherty is the birth surname of American author Kate Chopin, known for her pioneering works of feminist literature in the late 19th century.
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D.
O'Nolan
O'Nolan is an Irish surname, often associated with notable literary and historical figures from Ireland.
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E.
O'Cullen
O'Cullen is an Irish surname, a variant of Cullen, typically associated with Gaelic family lineages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish surname
ⓘ
person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| familyName | O'Herlihy ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
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Irish ⓘ |
| notableWorkField |
architecture
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film ⓘ television ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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architect ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Dan O'Herlihy
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Gavan O'Herlihy ⓘ Lorcan O'Herlihy ⓘ Michael O'Herlihy ⓘ |
| usedInField |
arts
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film ⓘ television ⓘ |
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: O'Herlihy Description of subject: O'Herlihy is an Irish surname associated with figures in film, television, and the arts.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.