Phelim O'Neill
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Phelim O'Neill was an Irish nobleman and military leader who played a prominent role in organizing and leading the early stages of the 1641 Irish uprising against English rule.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Felim O'Neill of Kinard | 1 |
| Phelim O'Neill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2537454 — 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: Phelim O'Neill Context triple: [Irish Rebellion of 1641, hasKeyFigure, Phelim O'Neill]
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A.
Shane O'Neill
Shane O'Neill was the son of renowned American playwright Eugene O'Neill and an actor who appeared in a few film and stage roles before his early death.
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B.
Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor was an Irish post-impressionist painter known for his bold use of color and texture and his association with avant-garde artists in late 19th-century France.
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C.
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, was a 17th-century Irish nobleman and military leader noted for his shifting allegiances and controversial role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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D.
Patrick Sarsfield
Patrick Sarsfield was a prominent Irish Jacobite military leader best known for his daring cavalry raids and key role in the defense of Limerick during the late 17th-century conflicts with Williamite forces.
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E.
Raymond McCreesh
Raymond McCreesh was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from South Armagh who died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981.
- 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: Phelim O'Neill Target entity description: Phelim O'Neill was an Irish nobleman and military leader who played a prominent role in organizing and leading the early stages of the 1641 Irish uprising against English rule.
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A.
Shane O'Neill
Shane O'Neill was the son of renowned American playwright Eugene O'Neill and an actor who appeared in a few film and stage roles before his early death.
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B.
Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor was an Irish post-impressionist painter known for his bold use of color and texture and his association with avant-garde artists in late 19th-century France.
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C.
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, was a 17th-century Irish nobleman and military leader noted for his shifting allegiances and controversial role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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D.
Patrick Sarsfield
Patrick Sarsfield was a prominent Irish Jacobite military leader best known for his daring cavalry raids and key role in the defense of Limerick during the late 17th-century conflicts with Williamite forces.
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E.
Raymond McCreesh
Raymond McCreesh was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from South Armagh who died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish nobleman
ⓘ
Irish rebel ⓘ military leader ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activityStart | 1641 Irish uprising ⓘ |
| cause |
defense of Irish Catholic interests
ⓘ
resistance to English rule in Ireland ⓘ |
| conflict |
Irish Rebellion of 1641
ⓘ
Wars of the Three Kingdoms ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Ireland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish ⓘ |
| familyName | O'Neill ⓘ |
| givenName | Phelim ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| memberOf | O'Neill dynasty ⓘ |
| militaryRank | commander ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in the Irish Rebellion of 1641
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organizing the early stages of the 1641 Irish uprising ⓘ rebellion against English rule in Ireland ⓘ |
| opponent |
English administration in Ireland
ⓘ
Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Island of Ireland
ⓘ
surface form:
Ireland
Ulster ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Irish Confederate cause ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Irish rebel leader ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
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| role |
leader of Irish Catholic rebels
ⓘ
organizer of the 1641 Irish uprising ⓘ |
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: Phelim O'Neill Description of subject: Phelim O'Neill was an Irish nobleman and military leader who played a prominent role in organizing and leading the early stages of the 1641 Irish uprising against English rule.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Felim O'Neill of Kinard