Robert Emmet
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Robert Emmet was an Irish nationalist leader who led a failed rebellion against British rule in 1803 and was subsequently executed, becoming a symbol of Irish republicanism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Emmet canonical | 8 |
| Robert Emmet's speech from the dock | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2302783 — 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: Robert Emmet Context triple: [Kilmainham Gaol, prisonerHeld, Robert Emmet]
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A.
Theobald Wolfe Tone
Theobald Wolfe Tone was an Irish revolutionary and founding member of the United Irishmen who sought to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish republic.
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B.
William Smith O'Brien
William Smith O'Brien was a 19th-century Irish nationalist leader and Young Ireland movement figure who played a prominent role in the 1848 rebellion against British rule.
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C.
Patrick Pearse
Patrick Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, and revolutionary leader who served as one of the principal organizers and the symbolic figurehead of the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule.
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D.
James Connolly
James Connolly was an American athlete and scholar best known as the first Olympic champion of the modern era, winning the triple jump at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
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E.
Cathal Brugha
Cathal Brugha was an Irish revolutionary leader and politician who played a key role in the struggle for independence, serving as a senior commander in the IRA and later as the first chairman of Dáil Éireann.
- 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: Robert Emmet Target entity description: Robert Emmet was an Irish nationalist leader who led a failed rebellion against British rule in 1803 and was subsequently executed, becoming a symbol of Irish republicanism.
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A.
Theobald Wolfe Tone
Theobald Wolfe Tone was an Irish revolutionary and founding member of the United Irishmen who sought to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish republic.
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B.
William Smith O'Brien
William Smith O'Brien was a 19th-century Irish nationalist leader and Young Ireland movement figure who played a prominent role in the 1848 rebellion against British rule.
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C.
Patrick Pearse
Patrick Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, and revolutionary leader who served as one of the principal organizers and the symbolic figurehead of the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule.
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D.
James Connolly
James Connolly was an American athlete and scholar best known as the first Olympic champion of the modern era, winning the triple jump at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
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E.
Cathal Brugha
Cathal Brugha was an Irish revolutionary leader and politician who played a key role in the struggle for independence, serving as a senior commander in the IRA and later as the first chairman of Dáil Éireann.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish nationalist
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ political leader ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Irish Rebellion of 1798
ⓘ
Society of United Irishmen ⓘ
surface form:
United Irishmen movement
|
| causeOfDeath | hanging ⓘ |
| citizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
ballads and poems
ⓘ
statues in Dublin ⓘ statues in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Kingdom of Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1778-03-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1803-09-20 ⓘ |
| education | Trinity College Dublin ⓘ |
| era |
18th century
ⓘ
19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Irish ⓘ |
| familyName |
Emmet Dalton
ⓘ
surface form:
Emmet
|
| famousQuote | Let no man write my epitaph ⓘ |
| fullName | Robert Emmet self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| inspired | later Irish republican leaders ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legacy | enduring symbol of resistance to British rule in Ireland ⓘ |
| legalStatus | convicted of high treason ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| memberOf | Society of United Irishmen ⓘ |
| movement |
Irish nationalism
ⓘ
Irish republicanism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
his speech from the dock
ⓘ
leading the 1803 Irish rebellion against British rule ⓘ |
| occupation | political activist ⓘ |
| opponent |
British administration in Ireland
ⓘ
surface form:
British government in Ireland
Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| parent |
Elizabeth Mason Emmet
ⓘ
Robert Emmet Sr. ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dublin ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Dublin ⓘ |
| plannedEvent | 1803 Irish rebellion ⓘ |
| politicalGoal | establishment of an independent Irish republic ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sibling | Thomas Addis Emmet ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
Irish independence movement
ⓘ
Irish republican martyrdom ⓘ |
| trialLocation | Dublin ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Robert Emmet Description of subject: Robert Emmet was an Irish nationalist leader who led a failed rebellion against British rule in 1803 and was subsequently executed, becoming a symbol of Irish republicanism.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robert Emmet's speech from the dock