Thomas Francis Meagher
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Irish nationalist
Union Army general
Young Irelander
barrister
human
politician
revolutionary
soldier
Thomas Francis Meagher was an Irish nationalist leader, Young Irelander, and later American Civil War general who played a key role in Ireland’s 19th-century independence movement.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Francis Meagher canonical | 7 |
| Thomas Meagher | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1998745 — 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: Thomas Francis Meagher Context triple: [Irish tricolour, introducedBy, Thomas Francis Meagher]
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A.
Henry O'Neill
Henry O'Neill was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Cornelius McGillicuddy
Cornelius McGillicuddy, better known as Connie Mack, was a legendary American baseball manager and team owner who led the Philadelphia Athletics for five decades and became one of the sport’s most iconic figures.
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C.
Owen Roe O'Neill
Owen Roe O'Neill was a prominent 17th-century Irish general of the O'Neill dynasty, best known for leading Gaelic Irish forces against English and Scottish armies during the Irish Confederate Wars.
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D.
John McGlynn
John McGlynn is a Scottish football manager best known for his successful spells in charge of Raith Rovers.
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E.
Edward L. Doheny
Edward L. Doheny was a prominent early 20th-century American oil tycoon whose business dealings and political connections made him a central figure in major U.S. oil industry and corruption controversies.
- 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: Thomas Francis Meagher Target entity description: Thomas Francis Meagher was an Irish nationalist leader, Young Irelander, and later American Civil War general who played a key role in Ireland’s 19th-century independence movement.
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A.
Henry O'Neill
Henry O'Neill was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Cornelius McGillicuddy
Cornelius McGillicuddy, better known as Connie Mack, was a legendary American baseball manager and team owner who led the Philadelphia Athletics for five decades and became one of the sport’s most iconic figures.
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C.
Owen Roe O'Neill
Owen Roe O'Neill was a prominent 17th-century Irish general of the O'Neill dynasty, best known for leading Gaelic Irish forces against English and Scottish armies during the Irish Confederate Wars.
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D.
John McGlynn
John McGlynn is a Scottish football manager best known for his successful spells in charge of Raith Rovers.
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E.
Edward L. Doheny
Edward L. Doheny was a prominent early 20th-century American oil tycoon whose business dealings and political connections made him a central figure in major U.S. oil industry and corruption controversies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
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: Thomas Francis Meagher Description of subject: Thomas Francis Meagher was an Irish nationalist leader, Young Irelander, and later American Civil War general who played a key role in Ireland’s 19th-century independence movement.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Thomas Meagher