James O'Neill
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James O'Neill was a 19th-century Irish-American stage actor best known for his long-running role in "The Count of Monte Cristo" and as the father of playwright Eugene O'Neill.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James O'Neill canonical | 4 |
| James O'Neill Jr. | 1 |
| James O’Neill | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2533309 — 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: James O'Neill Context triple: [Eugene O'Neill, parent, James O'Neill]
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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.
Thomas Francis Meagher
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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C.
John Boyle
John Boyle was an American jurist and politician from Kentucky, notably serving as Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in the early 19th century.
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D.
Michael Davitt
Michael Davitt was a 19th-century Irish republican and social reformer best known as a founder of the Irish National Land League and a key figure in the Land War.
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E.
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.
- 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: James O'Neill Target entity description: James O'Neill was a 19th-century Irish-American stage actor best known for his long-running role in "The Count of Monte Cristo" and as the father of playwright Eugene O'Neill.
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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.
Thomas Francis Meagher
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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C.
John Boyle
John Boyle was an American jurist and politician from Kentucky, notably serving as Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in the early 19th century.
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D.
Michael Davitt
Michael Davitt was a 19th-century Irish republican and social reformer best known as a founder of the Irish National Land League and a key figure in the Land War.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: James O'Neill Description of subject: James O'Neill was a 19th-century Irish-American stage actor best known for his long-running role in "The Count of Monte Cristo" and as the father of playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James O'Neill Jr.
this entity surface form:
James O’Neill