Flanigan
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Flanigan is a surname variant of Flanagan, an Irish family name of Gaelic origin.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3398698 — 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: Flanigan Context triple: [Flanagan, hasVariant, Flanigan]
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A.
Dinneen
Dinneen is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Fagan
Fagan is the family name of legendary American jazz singer Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan.
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C.
Finklea
Finklea is the birth surname of American actress and dancer Cyd Charisse, known for her roles in classic Hollywood musicals.
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D.
Franklyn
Franklyn is a given name and surname, used as a variant spelling of Franklin.
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E.
Corrigan
Corrigan is an Irish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as religion, politics, sports, and entertainment.
- 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: Flanigan Target entity description: Flanigan is a surname variant of Flanagan, an Irish family name of Gaelic origin.
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A.
Dinneen
Dinneen is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Fagan
Fagan is the family name of legendary American jazz singer Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan.
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C.
Finklea
Finklea is the birth surname of American actress and dancer Cyd Charisse, known for her roles in classic Hollywood musicals.
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D.
Franklyn
Franklyn is a given name and surname, used as a variant spelling of Franklin.
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E.
Corrigan
Corrigan is an Irish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as religion, politics, sports, and entertainment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Anglicised Irish-language surnames
ⓘ
Irish surnames ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | Irish culture ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalOrigin | Gaelic-language personal name ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Gaelic
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasNameType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasUsageRegion |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| isAlternativeSpellingOf | Flanagan ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | family name ⓘ |
| isVariantOf | Flanagan ⓘ |
| sharesEtymologyWith | Flanagan ⓘ |
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: Flanigan Description of subject: Flanigan is a surname variant of Flanagan, an Irish family name of Gaelic origin.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flanigan