O'Sullivan
E454388
O'Sullivan is a common Irish surname of Gaelic origin, historically associated with several prominent families and widely borne in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| O'Sullivan canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4569273 — 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: O'Sullivan Context triple: [Sullivan, hasVariant, O'Sullivan]
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A.
Murray
Murray is a suburban city in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, known for its central location in the metropolitan area and its mix of residential, commercial, and medical facilities.
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B.
Murray
Murray is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including physicist Murray Gell-Mann.
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C.
Murray
Murray is an electoral district in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, covering a large rural region in the state's southwest.
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D.
Murray
Murray is a common Scottish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, sports, and the arts.
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E.
Selby
Selby is a historic market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, known for its impressive medieval abbey and riverside setting on the River Ouse.
- 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: O'Sullivan Target entity description: O'Sullivan is a common Irish surname of Gaelic origin, historically associated with several prominent families and widely borne in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
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A.
Murray
Murray is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including physicist Murray Gell-Mann.
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B.
Murray
Murray is an electoral district in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, covering a large rural region in the state's southwest.
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C.
Murray
Murray is a suburban city in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, known for its central location in the metropolitan area and its mix of residential, commercial, and medical facilities.
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D.
Murray
Murray is a common Scottish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, sports, and the arts.
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E.
Selby
Selby is a historic market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, known for its impressive medieval abbey and riverside setting on the River Ouse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish surname
ⓘ
family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
Anglicised Irish-language surnames
ⓘ
Patronymic surnames ⓘ Surnames of Irish origin ⓘ |
| component |
O'
ⓘ
Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Ó Súileabháin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Gaelic ⓘ |
| etymologicalElement | súil (eye) ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | used by all genders ⓘ |
| hasAnglicisation | Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClan |
O'Sullivan Beare
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
O'Sullivan Mór NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Donie O'Sullivan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin NERFINISHED ⓘ John O'Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Maureen O'Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronnie O'Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Timothy O'Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOrthographicFeature | apostrophe before S ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
O Sullivan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
OSullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicallyAssociatedWith |
County Cork
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
County Kerry NERFINISHED ⓘ Munster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Irish language ⓘ |
| meaning | descendant of Súileabhán ⓘ |
| rankInIreland | among most common surnames in Ireland ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| typeOf | hereditary surname ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Australia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ Irish diaspora communities ⓘ New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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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: O'Sullivan Description of subject: O'Sullivan is a common Irish surname of Gaelic origin, historically associated with several prominent families and widely borne in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gilbert O'Sullivan