Kieran Doherty
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Kieran Doherty was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member who died on hunger strike in 1981 while serving as a Teachta Dála (member of the Irish parliament).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kieran Doherty canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T833168 — 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: Kieran Doherty Context triple: [Hunger strikes of 1981, notableDeath, Kieran Doherty]
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A.
Darragh MacAnthony
Darragh MacAnthony is an Irish businessman best known as the long-serving and outspoken owner and chairman of English football club Peterborough United.
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B.
Liam Lynch
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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C.
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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D.
Brendan McFarlane
Brendan McFarlane is a former Provisional IRA member from Belfast, best known for his leadership role in the 1981 Irish hunger strikes and his involvement in high-profile republican operations during the Troubles.
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E.
Liam Lonergan
Liam Lonergan is an Irish businessman best known as one of the founders of the low-cost airline Ryanair.
- 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: Kieran Doherty Target entity description: Kieran Doherty was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member who died on hunger strike in 1981 while serving as a Teachta Dála (member of the Irish parliament).
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A.
Darragh MacAnthony
Darragh MacAnthony is an Irish businessman best known as the long-serving and outspoken owner and chairman of English football club Peterborough United.
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B.
Liam Lynch
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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C.
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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D.
Brendan McFarlane
Brendan McFarlane is a former Provisional IRA member from Belfast, best known for his leadership role in the 1981 Irish hunger strikes and his involvement in high-profile republican operations during the Troubles.
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E.
Liam Lonergan
Liam Lonergan is an Irish businessman best known as one of the founders of the low-cost airline Ryanair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Kieran Doherty Description of subject: Kieran Doherty was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member who died on hunger strike in 1981 while serving as a Teachta Dála (member of the Irish parliament).
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.