Iris Pressagh
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Iris Pressagh was the first wife of Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly, with whom she shared a long and formative early period of his life and career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iris Pressagh canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6959347 — 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: Iris Pressagh Context triple: [Billy Connolly, spouse, Iris Pressagh]
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A.
Maire
Maire is the French term for a municipality’s chief elected official, equivalent to a mayor.
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B.
Maire
Maire is a given name, commonly used as an Irish or Scottish Gaelic form of Mary.
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C.
Orla
Orla is a river in eastern Germany that flows through Thuringia before joining the Saale.
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D.
Mary Boland
Mary Boland was an American stage and film actress best known for her comedic character roles in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema.
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E.
Sheelagh
Sheelagh is a feminine given name, typically considered an alternative spelling of Sheila and ultimately derived from the Irish name Síle.
- 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: Iris Pressagh Target entity description: Iris Pressagh was the first wife of Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly, with whom she shared a long and formative early period of his life and career.
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A.
Maire
Maire is the French term for a municipality’s chief elected official, equivalent to a mayor.
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B.
Maire
Maire is a given name, commonly used as an Irish or Scottish Gaelic form of Mary.
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C.
Orla
Orla is a river in eastern Germany that flows through Thuringia before joining the Saale.
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D.
Mary Boland
Mary Boland was an American stage and film actress best known for her comedic character roles in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema.
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E.
Sheelagh
Sheelagh is a feminine given name, typically considered an alternative spelling of Sheila and ultimately derived from the Irish name Síle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| endTimeOfMarriageWithBillyConnolly | 1985 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Cara Connolly
ⓘ
Jamie Connolly ⓘ another daughter with Billy Connolly ⓘ |
| knownFor | influence on Billy Connolly’s early life and career ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedWith | Billy Connolly ⓘ |
| marriageSequenceForBillyConnolly | first wife ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Billy Connolly ⓘ |
| occupation | waitress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Scotland ⓘ |
| residence | Glasgow ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| significantEvent | early years of Billy Connolly’s comedy career ⓘ |
| spouse |
Billy Connolly
ⓘ
Iris Pressagh ⓘ |
| startTimeOfMarriageWithBillyConnolly | 1969 ⓘ |
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: Iris Pressagh Description of subject: Iris Pressagh was the first wife of Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly, with whom she shared a long and formative early period of his life and career.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.