Society of United Irishmen
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The Society of United Irishmen was a late 18th-century revolutionary organization in Ireland that sought to unite Catholics, Protestants, and Dissenters in the cause of Irish independence and republican reform.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Society of United Irishmen canonical | 12 |
| United Irishmen movement | 4 |
| Société des Irlandais unis | 1 |
| United Irish rebels | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1235101 — 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: Society of United Irishmen Context triple: [Irish Rebellion of 1798, organizedBy, Society of United Irishmen]
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A.
Irish Unionist Alliance
The Irish Unionist Alliance was a political organization in Ireland that represented unionist opposition to Irish Home Rule and sought to maintain the political union with Great Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
An Phoblacht
An Phoblacht is an Irish republican newspaper closely associated with Sinn Féin, known for promoting the party’s political views and covering related news and commentary.
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C.
Ulster Volunteer Force
The Ulster Volunteer Force is a loyalist paramilitary organization in Northern Ireland known for its violent campaign against Irish republicanism during the Troubles.
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D.
Council of Ireland
The Council of Ireland was a short-lived inter-parliamentary body intended to coordinate and potentially unify the separate administrations of Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland within the United Kingdom in the early 1920s.
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E.
Irish republican movement
The Irish republican movement is a broad political and paramilitary tradition seeking to end British rule in Northern Ireland and achieve a united, independent Irish republic.
- 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: Society of United Irishmen Target entity description: The Society of United Irishmen was a late 18th-century revolutionary organization in Ireland that sought to unite Catholics, Protestants, and Dissenters in the cause of Irish independence and republican reform.
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A.
Irish Unionist Alliance
The Irish Unionist Alliance was a political organization in Ireland that represented unionist opposition to Irish Home Rule and sought to maintain the political union with Great Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
An Phoblacht
An Phoblacht is an Irish republican newspaper closely associated with Sinn Féin, known for promoting the party’s political views and covering related news and commentary.
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C.
Ulster Volunteer Force
The Ulster Volunteer Force is a loyalist paramilitary organization in Northern Ireland known for its violent campaign against Irish republicanism during the Troubles.
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D.
Council of Ireland
The Council of Ireland was a short-lived inter-parliamentary body intended to coordinate and potentially unify the separate administrations of Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland within the United Kingdom in the early 1920s.
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E.
Irish republican movement
The Irish republican movement is a broad political and paramilitary tradition seeking to end British rule in Northern Ireland and achieve a united, independent Irish republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Society of United Irishmen Description of subject: The Society of United Irishmen was a late 18th-century revolutionary organization in Ireland that sought to unite Catholics, Protestants, and Dissenters in the cause of Irish independence and republican reform.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
United Irishmen movement
this entity surface form:
United Irish rebels
this entity surface form:
United Irishmen movement
this entity surface form:
United Irishmen movement
this entity surface form:
United Irishmen movement
this entity surface form:
Société des Irlandais unis