Constable James McDonnell
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Constable James McDonnell was a Royal Irish Constabulary officer notable for being one of the first policemen killed in the Irish War of Independence during the Soloheadbeg ambush in 1919.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Constable James McDonnell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4001320 — 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: Constable James McDonnell Context triple: [Soloheadbeg ambush, killed, Constable James McDonnell]
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A.
Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis
Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis is a fictional Oxford-based police detective, best known as Inspector Morse’s loyal and down-to-earth sidekick in the British crime drama series.
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B.
Inspector Chester Campbell
Inspector Chester Campbell is a ruthless and morally rigid Belfast police inspector who becomes one of the primary antagonists in the British crime drama series *Peaky Blinders*.
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C.
Sergeant Archibald Cutter
Sergeant Archibald Cutter is a roguish, treasure-seeking British soldier in colonial India, best known as one of the three main protagonists in the adventure film "Gunga Din."
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D.
Alfred Borden
Alfred Borden is a brilliant but secretive Victorian-era stage magician whose obsessive rivalry and extreme dedication to his craft drive the central mystery and tragedy of "The Prestige."
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E.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
- 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: Constable James McDonnell Target entity description: Constable James McDonnell was a Royal Irish Constabulary officer notable for being one of the first policemen killed in the Irish War of Independence during the Soloheadbeg ambush in 1919.
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A.
Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis
Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis is a fictional Oxford-based police detective, best known as Inspector Morse’s loyal and down-to-earth sidekick in the British crime drama series.
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B.
Inspector Chester Campbell
Inspector Chester Campbell is a ruthless and morally rigid Belfast police inspector who becomes one of the primary antagonists in the British crime drama series *Peaky Blinders*.
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C.
Sergeant Archibald Cutter
Sergeant Archibald Cutter is a roguish, treasure-seeking British soldier in colonial India, best known as one of the three main protagonists in the adventure film "Gunga Din."
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D.
Alfred Borden
Alfred Borden is a brilliant but secretive Victorian-era stage magician whose obsessive rivalry and extreme dedication to his craft drive the central mystery and tragedy of "The Prestige."
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E.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Irish Constabulary officer
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person ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| conflict | Irish War of Independence ⓘ |
| countryOfService | Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1919-01-21 ⓘ |
| deathStatus | one of the first RIC fatalities of the Irish War of Independence ⓘ |
| employer | Royal Irish Constabulary ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| event | Soloheadbeg ambush ⓘ |
| familyName | McDonnell ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Constable ⓘ |
| killedBy | Irish Republican Army ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first policemen killed in the Irish War of Independence ⓘ |
| occupation | police officer ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary, Ireland ⓘ |
| policeForce | Royal Irish Constabulary ⓘ |
| role | escort for explosives convoy at Soloheadbeg ⓘ |
| victimOf | Soloheadbeg ambush ⓘ |
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: Constable James McDonnell Description of subject: Constable James McDonnell was a Royal Irish Constabulary officer notable for being one of the first policemen killed in the Irish War of Independence during the Soloheadbeg ambush in 1919.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.