Leahey
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Leahey is a surname variant of Leahy, 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 T6975292 — 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: Leahey Context triple: [Leahy, hasVariant, Leahey]
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A.
Hayes
Hayes is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, entertainment, sports, and other fields.
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B.
Hayes
Hayes is a suburban district in southeast London, England, known for its residential character and green spaces within the London Borough of Bromley.
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C.
Hayes
Hayes is a suburban town in west London, England, known for its residential areas, transport links, and proximity to Heathrow Airport.
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D.
McCauley
McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
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E.
Rennahan
Rennahan is a surname most notably associated with Ray Rennahan, an American cinematographer known for his pioneering work with Technicolor.
- 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: Leahey Target entity description: Leahey is a surname variant of Leahy, an Irish family name of Gaelic origin.
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A.
Hayes
Hayes is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, entertainment, sports, and other fields.
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B.
Hayes
Hayes is a suburban district in southeast London, England, known for its residential character and green spaces within the London Borough of Bromley.
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C.
Hayes
Hayes is a suburban town in west London, England, known for its residential areas, transport links, and proximity to Heathrow Airport.
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D.
McCauley
McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
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E.
Rennahan
Rennahan is a surname most notably associated with Ray Rennahan, an American cinematographer known for his pioneering work with Technicolor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalOrigin |
Irish Gaelic
ⓘ
linked to:
Irish language
|
| hasGeographicOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Gaelic
ⓘ
linked to:
Goidelic
Irish ⓘ |
| hasNameType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant | Leahy ⓘ |
| isRomanizationOf | an Irish Gaelic surname ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | family name ⓘ |
| isVariantOf | Leahy ⓘ |
| isWrittenIn | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| sharesEtymologyWith | Leahy ⓘ |
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: Leahey Description of subject: Leahey is a surname variant of Leahy, 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: Leahey