Limerick variety
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The Limerick variety is a regional dialect of Irish Sign Language used primarily by the Deaf community in and around Limerick, Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Limerick variety canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11029636 — 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: Limerick variety Context triple: [Irish Sign Language, hasRegionalVariation, Limerick variety]
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A.
Limerick
Limerick is a historic city in western Ireland known for its medieval architecture, riverside setting on the River Shannon, and rich cultural and literary heritage.
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B.
Riverfest Limerick
Riverfest Limerick is an annual May bank holiday festival in Limerick, Ireland, featuring river-based activities, live entertainment, food markets, and family events along the River Shannon.
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C.
The Rhyming Poem
The Rhyming Poem is an Old English verse notable for its rare and elaborate use of end rhyme, preserved in the medieval manuscript known as the Exeter Book.
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D.
Ballylooby
Ballylooby is a small rural village in County Tipperary, Ireland, known for its agricultural surroundings and local community life.
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E.
Irish dialect continuum
The Irish dialect continuum is the range of mutually intelligible regional varieties of the Irish language spoken across Ireland, including major dialects such as Munster, Connacht, and Ulster Irish.
- 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: Limerick variety Target entity description: The Limerick variety is a regional dialect of Irish Sign Language used primarily by the Deaf community in and around Limerick, Ireland.
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A.
Limerick
Limerick is a historic city in western Ireland known for its medieval architecture, riverside setting on the River Shannon, and rich cultural and literary heritage.
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B.
Riverfest Limerick
Riverfest Limerick is an annual May bank holiday festival in Limerick, Ireland, featuring river-based activities, live entertainment, food markets, and family events along the River Shannon.
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C.
The Rhyming Poem
The Rhyming Poem is an Old English verse notable for its rare and elaborate use of end rhyme, preserved in the medieval manuscript known as the Exeter Book.
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D.
Ballylooby
Ballylooby is a small rural village in County Tipperary, Ireland, known for its agricultural surroundings and local community life.
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E.
Irish dialect continuum
The Irish dialect continuum is the range of mutually intelligible regional varieties of the Irish language spoken across Ireland, including major dialects such as Munster, Connacht, and Ulster Irish.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
regional dialect
ⓘ
sign language variety ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasSuperstrate |
Irish Sign Language standard variety
ⓘ
linked to:
Irish Sign Language
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| ISOStatus | not separately coded from Irish Sign Language ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Irish Sign Language ⓘ |
| languageType | natural language variety ⓘ |
| modality | visual-gestural ⓘ |
| partOf | Irish Sign Language ⓘ |
| region | Limerick ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Deaf community around Limerick
ⓘ
Deaf community in Limerick ⓘ |
| usedIn |
education of Deaf people in and around Limerick
ⓘ
everyday communication among Deaf signers in and around Limerick ⓘ |
| writingSystem | none (signed language) ⓘ |
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: Limerick variety Description of subject: The Limerick variety is a regional dialect of Irish Sign Language used primarily by the Deaf community in and around Limerick, Ireland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.