Liam Lynch
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Liam Lynch was a prominent Irish republican military leader who served as chief of staff of the anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Liam Lynch canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T632186 — 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: Liam Lynch Context triple: [Irish Civil War, commander, Liam Lynch]
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A.
Donal McLaughlin
Donal McLaughlin was an American architect and industrial designer best known for creating the iconic emblem of the United Nations.
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B.
Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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C.
Liam Lonergan
Liam Lonergan is an Irish businessman best known as one of the founders of the low-cost airline Ryanair.
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D.
Seán Lester
Seán Lester was an Irish diplomat best known for serving as the last Secretary-General of the League of Nations during its final years before the transition to the United Nations.
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E.
Pat Moran
Pat Moran was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball manager and former catcher best known for leading teams like the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds, including guiding the Reds to a controversial 1919 World Series championship.
- 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: Liam Lynch Target entity description: Liam Lynch was a prominent Irish republican military leader who served as chief of staff of the anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War.
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A.
Donal McLaughlin
Donal McLaughlin was an American architect and industrial designer best known for creating the iconic emblem of the United Nations.
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B.
Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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C.
Liam Lonergan
Liam Lonergan is an Irish businessman best known as one of the founders of the low-cost airline Ryanair.
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D.
Seán Lester
Seán Lester was an Irish diplomat best known for serving as the last Secretary-General of the League of Nations during its final years before the transition to the United Nations.
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E.
Pat Moran
Pat Moran was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball manager and former catcher best known for leading teams like the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds, including guiding the Reds to a controversial 1919 World Series championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish Republican Army member
ⓘ
Irish republican ⓘ military leader ⓘ person ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 29 ⓘ |
| arrestedBy |
British forces
ⓘ
linked to:
British Armed Forces
|
| arrestEvent | captured during a raid in Cork in 1920 and later escaped ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Kilcrumper Cemetery, near Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland ⓘ |
| capturedBy |
Irish Free State forces
ⓘ
linked to:
National Army of the Irish Free State
|
| capturedDuring | Knockmealdown Mountains engagement, April 1923 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| commanded |
1st Southern Division, Irish Republican Army
ⓘ
linked to:
Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)
Cork No. 2 Brigade, Irish Republican Army ⓘ
linked to:
Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)
|
| commemoratedBy | annual republican commemorations at his graveside ⓘ |
| conflict |
Irish Civil War
ⓘ
Irish War of Independence ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1893-11-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1923-04-10 ⓘ |
| endTime | 1923-04-10 ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish ⓘ |
| familyName | Lynch ⓘ |
| fullName | William Joseph Lynch ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasMemorial | Liam Lynch memorial at the Knockmealdown Mountains ⓘ |
| ideology | Irish republicanism ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Irish Republican Army
ⓘ
Irish Volunteers ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Irish Republican Army ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| nickname | Liam ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
directed guerrilla campaign in County Cork during the Irish War of Independence
ⓘ
participated in the capture of Mallow barracks in 1920 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership of anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War
ⓘ
refusal to accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty ⓘ |
| occupation |
revolutionary
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| opposedTo | Anglo-Irish Treaty ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Barnagurraha, County Limerick, Ireland ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland
ⓘ
linked to:
Clonmel
|
| positionHeld | Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (anti-Treaty) ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | anti-Treaty IRA ⓘ |
| startTime | 1922-03-26 ⓘ |
| woundedIn | anti-Treaty IRA leadership meeting in the Knockmealdown Mountains, April 1923 ⓘ |
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: Liam Lynch Description of subject: Liam Lynch was a prominent Irish republican military leader who served as chief of staff of the anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Barnagurraha, County Limerick, Ireland
subject linked to:
Barnagurraha, County Limerick, Ireland
subject linked to:
Kilcrumper Cemetery, near Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland