Reg Empey
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Reg Empey is a Northern Irish unionist politician who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and held several ministerial and legislative roles in the region’s devolved government.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reg Empey canonical | 3 |
| Reg Empey (acting) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T922446 — 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: Reg Empey Context triple: [Ulster Unionist Party, notableLeader, Reg Empey]
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A.
Rick Dempsey
Rick Dempsey is a former Major League Baseball catcher best known for his defensive skills, durability, and postseason heroics, particularly with the Baltimore Orioles.
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B.
Richie Roberts
Richie Roberts is a real-life New Jersey detective and prosecutor best known for his role in bringing down drug lord Frank Lucas, a story dramatized in the film "American Gangster."
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C.
Jack Driscoll
Jack Driscoll is a central heroic character in the 1933 film "King Kong," serving as the ship's first mate and the primary human protagonist who helps rescue Ann Darrow from the giant ape.
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D.
John Grandy
John Grandy was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become a leading commander of British fighter forces during and after the Second World War.
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E.
Pat Hobbs
Pat Hobbs is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at Rutgers University, where he has overseen major developments in the Scarlet Knights’ athletic programs.
- 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: Reg Empey Target entity description: Reg Empey is a Northern Irish unionist politician who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and held several ministerial and legislative roles in the region’s devolved government.
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A.
Rick Dempsey
Rick Dempsey is a former Major League Baseball catcher best known for his defensive skills, durability, and postseason heroics, particularly with the Baltimore Orioles.
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B.
Richie Roberts
Richie Roberts is a real-life New Jersey detective and prosecutor best known for his role in bringing down drug lord Frank Lucas, a story dramatized in the film "American Gangster."
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C.
Jack Driscoll
Jack Driscoll is a central heroic character in the 1933 film "King Kong," serving as the ship's first mate and the primary human protagonist who helps rescue Ann Darrow from the giant ape.
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D.
John Grandy
John Grandy was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become a leading commander of British fighter forces during and after the Second World War.
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E.
Pat Hobbs
Pat Hobbs is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at Rutgers University, where he has overseen major developments in the Scarlet Knights’ athletic programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Northern Irish politician
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ unionist politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Scots
ⓘ
surface form:
Ulster Scots
|
| familyName | Empey ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economic development policy
ⓘ
education and skills policy ⓘ politics ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Reginald ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Lord ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | politician ⓘ |
| ideology |
British unionism
ⓘ
conservatism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leaderOfPoliticalParty | Ulster Unionist Party ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Belfast City Council
ⓘ
House of Lords ⓘ Northern Ireland Assembly ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Ulster Unionist Party ⓘ |
| name | Reg Empey self-link ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | life peer in the House of Lords ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Leadership role in Northern Ireland’s devolved government
ⓘ
Senior figure in Ulster unionism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party during devolution era
ⓘ
Participation in the Northern Ireland peace process ⓘ |
| officeContested | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| partOf |
Northern Ireland Assembly
ⓘ
Northern Ireland Executive ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | unionism ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
ⓘ
Lord Mayor of Belfast ⓘ Belfast City Council ⓘ
surface form:
Member of Belfast City Council
Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom ⓘ Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly ⓘ Member of the Northern Ireland Forum ⓘ Minister for the Economy (Northern Ireland) ⓘ
surface form:
Minister for Employment and Learning of Northern Ireland
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment of Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Protestantism ⓘ |
| representedIn |
Northern Ireland Assembly
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Ireland Assembly for an Ulster constituency
|
| residence | Belfast ⓘ |
| workLocation | Belfast ⓘ |
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: Reg Empey Description of subject: Reg Empey is a Northern Irish unionist politician who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and held several ministerial and legislative roles in the region’s devolved government.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Reg Empey (acting)