Dan Breen
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Dan Breen was a prominent Irish Republican Army volunteer and revolutionary figure who played a key role in the Irish War of Independence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dan Breen canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4001324 — 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: Dan Breen Context triple: [Soloheadbeg ambush, commander, Dan Breen]
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A.
Pat Kilkenny
Pat Kilkenny is an American businessman and former University of Oregon athletic director known for his significant financial contributions to the school's athletic facilities and programs.
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B.
Paddy Daly
Paddy Daly was an Irish revolutionary and military leader who played a prominent role in the Irish War of Independence and later served as a senior officer in the pro-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War.
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C.
Seán Moylan
Seán Moylan was an Irish revolutionary and politician who served as a prominent IRA commander during the War of Independence and later as a Fianna Fáil TD and government minister.
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D.
Pádraic Delaney
Pádraic Delaney is an Irish actor best known for his role in the historical drama film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" and for his work in film, television, and theatre.
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E.
Mick Galwey
Mick Galwey is a former Irish rugby union player best known for captaining Munster and earning numerous caps for Ireland during the 1990s.
- 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: Dan Breen Target entity description: Dan Breen was a prominent Irish Republican Army volunteer and revolutionary figure who played a key role in the Irish War of Independence.
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A.
Pat Kilkenny
Pat Kilkenny is an American businessman and former University of Oregon athletic director known for his significant financial contributions to the school's athletic facilities and programs.
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B.
Paddy Daly
Paddy Daly was an Irish revolutionary and military leader who played a prominent role in the Irish War of Independence and later served as a senior officer in the pro-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War.
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C.
Seán Moylan
Seán Moylan was an Irish revolutionary and politician who served as a prominent IRA commander during the War of Independence and later as a Fianna Fáil TD and government minister.
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D.
Pádraic Delaney
Pádraic Delaney is an Irish actor best known for his role in the historical drama film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" and for his work in film, television, and theatre.
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E.
Mick Galwey
Mick Galwey is a former Irish rugby union player best known for captaining Munster and earning numerous caps for Ireland during the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Dan Breen Description of subject: Dan Breen was a prominent Irish Republican Army volunteer and revolutionary figure who played a key role in the Irish War of Independence.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Soloheadbeg ambush