Mary MacSwiney
E384969
Mary MacSwiney was an Irish republican activist, educator, and politician who became a prominent anti-Treaty leader during and after the Irish Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary MacSwiney canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3737004 — 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: Mary MacSwiney Context triple: [anti-Treaty IRA, notableMember, Mary MacSwiney]
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A.
Lady Mary Butler
Lady Mary Butler was an Irish noblewoman of the prominent Butler family who became Duchess of Devonshire through her marriage to William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire.
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B.
Terence MacSwiney
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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C.
Caroline Sophia Parnell
Caroline Sophia Parnell was the wife of Charles Thomas Longley, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury in the mid-19th century.
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D.
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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E.
Mary Boyle
Mary Boyle was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who became Duchess of Queensberry through her marriage into the powerful Douglas family.
- 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: Mary MacSwiney Target entity description: Mary MacSwiney was an Irish republican activist, educator, and politician who became a prominent anti-Treaty leader during and after the Irish Civil War.
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A.
Lady Mary Butler
Lady Mary Butler was an Irish noblewoman of the prominent Butler family who became Duchess of Devonshire through her marriage to William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire.
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B.
Terence MacSwiney
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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C.
Caroline Sophia Parnell
Caroline Sophia Parnell was the wife of Charles Thomas Longley, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury in the mid-19th century.
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D.
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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E.
Mary Boyle
Mary Boyle was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who became Duchess of Queensberry through her marriage into the powerful Douglas family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Mary MacSwiney Description of subject: Mary MacSwiney was an Irish republican activist, educator, and politician who became a prominent anti-Treaty leader during and after the Irish Civil War.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.