Reilly
E139094
Reilly is a surname most notably associated with William K. Reilly, an American environmentalist and former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reilly canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1190969 — 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: Reilly Context triple: [William K. Reilly, familyName, Reilly]
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A.
Myles
Myles is a masculine given name of English origin, historically associated with figures such as Mayflower military leader Myles Standish.
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B.
Riley
Riley is a surname most famously associated with Pat Riley, the legendary NBA coach and executive.
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C.
Gavin
Gavin is a masculine given name of Celtic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Liam
Liam is a popular masculine given name of Irish origin, commonly understood as a short form of William.
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E.
Hayes
Hayes is a suburban district in southeast London, England, known for its residential character and green spaces within the London Borough of Bromley.
- 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: Reilly Target entity description: Reilly is a surname most notably associated with William K. Reilly, an American environmentalist and former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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A.
Myles
Myles is a masculine given name of English origin, historically associated with figures such as Mayflower military leader Myles Standish.
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B.
Riley
Riley is a surname most famously associated with Pat Riley, the legendary NBA coach and executive.
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C.
Gavin
Gavin is a masculine given name of Celtic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Liam
Liam is a popular masculine given name of Irish origin, commonly understood as a short form of William.
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E.
Hayes
Hayes is a suburban district in southeast London, England, known for its residential character and green spaces within the London Borough of Bromley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
environmentalist
ⓘ
family name ⓘ government official ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| appointedBy | George H. W. Bush ⓘ |
| countryOfEmployment |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employer | United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| familyName | Reilly self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
environmental policy
ⓘ
environmental protection ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
Irish surnames ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | William K. Reilly ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| occupation |
environmentalist
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ public administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Cabinet-level)
ⓘ
surface form:
Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
|
| usedAs | last name ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Ireland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| variantOf |
Tim O'Reilly
ⓘ
surface form:
O'Reilly
|
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: Reilly Description of subject: Reilly is a surname most notably associated with William K. Reilly, an American environmentalist and former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William K. Reilly