Michael O'Herlihy
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Michael O'Herlihy was an Irish-born television and film director known for his extensive work on American TV series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael O'Herlihy canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T173369 — 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: Michael O'Herlihy Context triple: [Backstairs at the White House, director, Michael O'Herlihy]
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A.
Michael H. Moloney
Michael H. Moloney is a physics-focused science policy and leadership professional who serves as the chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics.
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B.
William McGann
William McGann was an American cinematographer and film director active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on adventure and genre films.
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C.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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D.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
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E.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
- 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: Michael O'Herlihy Target entity description: Michael O'Herlihy was an Irish-born television and film director known for his extensive work on American TV series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s.
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A.
Michael H. Moloney
Michael H. Moloney is a physics-focused science policy and leadership professional who serves as the chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics.
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B.
William McGann
William McGann was an American cinematographer and film director active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on adventure and genre films.
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C.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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D.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
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E.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Michael O'Herlihy Description of subject: Michael O'Herlihy was an Irish-born television and film director known for his extensive work on American TV series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.