Martin Doyle (VC)
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Martin Doyle (VC) was an Irish soldier in the British Army who received the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery during World War I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Martin Doyle (VC) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8935016 — 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: Martin Doyle (VC) Context triple: [Doyle, hasNotableBearer, Martin Doyle (VC)]
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A.
Sergeant Ian McKay
Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
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B.
Major Amos Charles Dundee
Major Amos Charles Dundee is the hard-driven, controversial Union cavalry officer portrayed by Charlton Heston in Sam Peckinpah’s 1965 Western war film "Major Dundee."
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C.
Lance-Corporal James Welch
Lance-Corporal James Welch was a British Army soldier and First World War Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his conspicuous bravery in combat.
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D.
Sergeant Thomas Durrant
Sergeant Thomas Durrant was a British Army non-commissioned officer of the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his extraordinary bravery during the St Nazaire raid in 1942.
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E.
Sergeant Neil Howie
Sergeant Neil Howie is the devoutly Christian Scottish police officer whose investigation of a missing girl on a remote pagan island drives the central mystery and horror of the 1973 film "The Wicker Man."
- 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: Martin Doyle (VC) Target entity description: Martin Doyle (VC) was an Irish soldier in the British Army who received the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery during World War I.
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A.
Sergeant Ian McKay
Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
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B.
Major Amos Charles Dundee
Major Amos Charles Dundee is the hard-driven, controversial Union cavalry officer portrayed by Charlton Heston in Sam Peckinpah’s 1965 Western war film "Major Dundee."
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C.
Lance-Corporal James Welch
Lance-Corporal James Welch was a British Army soldier and First World War Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his conspicuous bravery in combat.
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D.
Sergeant Thomas Durrant
Sergeant Thomas Durrant was a British Army non-commissioned officer of the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his extraordinary bravery during the St Nazaire raid in 1942.
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E.
Sergeant Neil Howie
Sergeant Neil Howie is the devoutly Christian Scottish police officer whose investigation of a missing girl on a remote pagan island drives the central mystery and horror of the 1973 film "The Wicker Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army soldier
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Irish soldier ⓘ Victoria Cross recipient ⓘ person ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Victoria Cross
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linked to:
The Victoria Cross
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| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasHonorificSuffix | VC ⓘ |
| militaryAllegiance | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| name | Martin Doyle ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableFor | exceptional bravery during World War I ⓘ |
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: Martin Doyle (VC) Description of subject: Martin Doyle (VC) was an Irish soldier in the British Army who received the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery during World War I.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.