Tipperary town
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Tipperary town is a historic market town in Ireland known for giving its name to the popular World War I song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tipperary town canonical | 3 |
| Tipperary Town | 2 |
| Tipperary | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6603616 — 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: Tipperary town Context triple: [County Tipperary, containsTown, Tipperary town]
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A.
Clonmel
Clonmel is a historic town in County Tipperary, Ireland, known for its strategic location and notable role in Irish military and political history.
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B.
Mitchelstown
Mitchelstown is a market town in north County Cork, Ireland, known historically for its agricultural hinterland and proximity to the Galtee Mountains.
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C.
Carrick-on-Suir
Carrick-on-Suir is a historic town in County Tipperary, Ireland, known for its scenic setting on the River Suir and as the hometown of the influential folk group The Clancy Brothers.
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D.
Nenagh
Nenagh is a historic market town in County Tipperary, Ireland, known for its medieval castle and role as a regional commercial and administrative center.
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E.
Fermoy
Fermoy is a market town on the River Blackwater in southern Ireland known historically as a garrison town and regional commercial center.
- 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: Tipperary town Target entity description: Tipperary town is a historic market town in Ireland known for giving its name to the popular World War I song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary."
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A.
Clonmel
Clonmel is a historic town in County Tipperary, Ireland, known for its strategic location and notable role in Irish military and political history.
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B.
Mitchelstown
Mitchelstown is a market town in north County Cork, Ireland, known historically for its agricultural hinterland and proximity to the Galtee Mountains.
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C.
Carrick-on-Suir
Carrick-on-Suir is a historic town in County Tipperary, Ireland, known for its scenic setting on the River Suir and as the hometown of the influential folk group The Clancy Brothers.
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D.
Nenagh
Nenagh is a historic market town in County Tipperary, Ireland, known for its medieval castle and role as a regional commercial and administrative center.
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E.
Fermoy
Fermoy is a market town on the River Blackwater in southern Ireland known historically as a garrison town and regional commercial center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
settlement
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| country | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gaveNameTo | song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedBy | Tipperary County Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAssociationFootballClub | Tipperary Town AFC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory | Towns and villages in County Tipperary ⓘ |
| hasDialingCode | +353 62 ⓘ |
| hasEircodeRoutingKey | E34 ⓘ |
| hasGAAClub | Arravale Rovers GAA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIrishGridReference | R906382 ⓘ |
| hasIrishName | Tiobraid Árann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasName | Tipperary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyMountainRange |
Galtee Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Slievenamuck Hills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTown |
Cahir
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cashel NERFINISHED ⓘ Limerick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBuilding |
St Michael’s Church
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tipperary Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ Tipperary Town Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableStreet |
Main Street
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
O’Brien Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParish | Tipperary parish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostcode | E34 ⓘ |
| hasPrimarySchool |
St Joseph’s Boys National School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St Michael’s Girls National School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Tipperary railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegionCode | IE-TY ⓘ |
| hasRiver | River Ara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRugbyClub | Tipperary RFC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSecondarySchool |
St Ailbe’s Secondary School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St Anne’s Secondary School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCountyTownOf | County Tipperary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInDiocese |
Church of Ireland Diocese of Cashel, Ferns and Ossory
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMarketTown | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with the song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary"
ⓘ
historic market town ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
County Tipperary
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
province of Munster ⓘ southern Ireland ⓘ |
| roadServedBy |
N24 road
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
R515 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Western European Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Irish Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Tipperary town Description of subject: Tipperary town is a historic market town in Ireland known for giving its name to the popular World War I song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tipperary
this entity surface form:
Tipperary Town
this entity surface form:
Tipperary Town