Mark Feehily
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Mark Feehily is an Irish singer best known as one of the lead vocalists of the pop group Westlife.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Feehily canonical | 15 |
| Markus Michael Patrick Feehily | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5875338 — 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: Mark Feehily Context triple: [Westlife, hasMember, Mark Feehily]
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A.
Finbar Veals
Finbar Veals is a character in Sebastian Faulks’s novel "A Week in December," depicted as a young man whose storyline explores contemporary social and psychological tensions in modern Britain.
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B.
Brendan McHale
Brendan McHale is a relatively obscure individual whose primary current distinction is simply being noted as a bearer of the McHale surname.
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C.
Brian Molloy
Brian Molloy is an Irish music industry figure best known as the founder of Dublin’s renowned Windmill Lane Studios, where many iconic recordings have been made.
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D.
Daniel McCreanor
Daniel McCreanor was one of the civilians killed in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre in County Down, Northern Ireland, when loyalist gunmen opened fire in a village pub during a World Cup football match.
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E.
Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
- 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: Mark Feehily Target entity description: Mark Feehily is an Irish singer best known as one of the lead vocalists of the pop group Westlife.
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A.
Finbar Veals
Finbar Veals is a character in Sebastian Faulks’s novel "A Week in December," depicted as a young man whose storyline explores contemporary social and psychological tensions in modern Britain.
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B.
Brendan McHale
Brendan McHale is a relatively obscure individual whose primary current distinction is simply being noted as a bearer of the McHale surname.
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C.
Brian Molloy
Brian Molloy is an Irish music industry figure best known as the founder of Dublin’s renowned Windmill Lane Studios, where many iconic recordings have been made.
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D.
Daniel McCreanor
Daniel McCreanor was one of the civilians killed in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre in County Down, Northern Ireland, when loyalist gunmen opened fire in a village pub during a World Cup football match.
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E.
Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
recording artist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeInBand | Westlife ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Westlife ⓘ |
| birthName |
Markus Michael Patrick Feehily
ⓘ
linked to:
Mark Feehily
|
| birthPlaceCity | Sligo ⓘ |
| birthPlaceCountry | Ireland ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Ireland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1980-05-28 ⓘ |
| familyName | Feehily ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
adult contemporary music
ⓘ
pop ⓘ pop rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Markus ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | Irish ⓘ |
| hasFirstName | Markus ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName |
Michael
ⓘ
Patrick ⓘ |
| hasNotableNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Feehily ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor | being one of the lead vocalists of Westlife ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Westlife ⓘ |
| musicGroupStart | Westlife ⓘ |
| name | Mark Feehily ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableWork | lead vocals in Westlife ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Sligo ⓘ |
| residence | Ireland ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| vocalType | tenor ⓘ |
| yearsActiveAsMusician | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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: Mark Feehily Description of subject: Mark Feehily is an Irish singer best known as one of the lead vocalists of the pop group Westlife.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.