Alan Doyle
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Alan Doyle is a Canadian musician, singer-songwriter, and actor best known as the lead singer of the folk-rock band Great Big Sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Doyle canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8935015 — 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: Alan Doyle Context triple: [Doyle, hasNotableBearer, Alan Doyle]
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A.
Dermot Crowley
Dermot Crowley is an Irish actor best known for his role as DSU Martin Schenk in the British crime drama series "Luther."
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B.
Sean Condon
Sean Condon is an Australian writer known for his humorous travel memoirs and fiction.
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C.
Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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D.
Danny Boy O'Connor
Danny Boy O'Connor is an American rapper best known as a founding member of the hip hop group House of Pain and later as a music executive and cultural preservationist.
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E.
Dermot McDermott
Dermot McDermott is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname McDermott, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
- 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: Alan Doyle Target entity description: Alan Doyle is a Canadian musician, singer-songwriter, and actor best known as the lead singer of the folk-rock band Great Big Sea.
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A.
Dermot Crowley
Dermot Crowley is an Irish actor best known for his role as DSU Martin Schenk in the British crime drama series "Luther."
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B.
Sean Condon
Sean Condon is an Australian writer known for his humorous travel memoirs and fiction.
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C.
Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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D.
Danny Boy O'Connor
Danny Boy O'Connor is an American rapper best known as a founding member of the hip hop group House of Pain and later as a music executive and cultural preservationist.
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E.
Dermot McDermott
Dermot McDermott is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname McDermott, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| actedIn |
TV series "Republic of Doyle"
NERFINISHED
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film "Robin Hood" (2010) NERFINISHED ⓘ film "The Grand Seduction" NERFINISHED ⓘ film "Winter’s Tale" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOf |
memoir "A Newfoundlander in Canada"
NERFINISHED
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memoir "Where I Belong" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Alan Thomas Doyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Allan A’Dayle in "Robin Hood" (2010) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1969-05-17 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Newfoundlander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Celtic rock
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folk ⓘ folk rock ⓘ |
| hasChild | Henry Thomas Doyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bouzouki
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guitar ⓘ mandolin ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Great Big Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Alan Doyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Honorary Doctor of Letters from Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Member of the Order of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Great Big Sea album "Fortune’s Favour"
NERFINISHED
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Great Big Sea album "Play" NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Big Sea album "Sea of No Cares" NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Big Sea album "Up" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "A Week at the Warehouse" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "Boy on Bridge" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "Rough Side Out" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "So Let’s Go" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "Welcome Home" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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guitarist ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Petty Harbour–Maddox Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInBand | lead singer of Great Big Sea ⓘ |
| spouse | Joanne Doyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://alandoyle.ca/ ⓘ |
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: Alan Doyle Description of subject: Alan Doyle is a Canadian musician, singer-songwriter, and actor best known as the lead singer of the folk-rock band Great Big Sea.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.