Pollexfen family of Sligo
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The Pollexfen family of Sligo was a prominent Anglo-Irish merchant and milling family in 19th-century Sligo, best known today as the maternal family of poet W. B. Yeats.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pollexfen family of Sligo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10767741 — 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: Pollexfen family of Sligo Context triple: [Susan Mary Pollexfen, notableFamily, Pollexfen family of Sligo]
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de Courcy family
The de Courcy family is an aristocratic English family depicted in Anthony Trollope’s novels, known for its social ambition, influence, and often snobbish attitudes within Victorian high society.
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B.
Mac Giolla Phádraig dynasty
The Mac Giolla Phádraig dynasty was a prominent Gaelic Irish royal family that held kingship and later lordship in parts of what is now County Laois, playing a significant role in medieval Leinster politics.
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O'Conor family
The O'Conor family is a historic Irish noble lineage traditionally recognized as the ruling dynasty of the medieval Kingdom of Connacht and claimants to the title of High Kings of Ireland.
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Conyngham family
The Conyngham family is an Anglo-Irish aristocratic lineage historically prominent in County Meath, Ireland, known especially for their long association with and residence at Slane Castle.
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E.
FitzGerald family
The FitzGerald family is a prominent Anglo-Norman dynasty in Ireland historically known as the Earls of Kildare and Desmond, influential in Irish politics and society from the medieval period onward.
- 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: Pollexfen family of Sligo Target entity description: The Pollexfen family of Sligo was a prominent Anglo-Irish merchant and milling family in 19th-century Sligo, best known today as the maternal family of poet W. B. Yeats.
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A.
de Courcy family
The de Courcy family is an aristocratic English family depicted in Anthony Trollope’s novels, known for its social ambition, influence, and often snobbish attitudes within Victorian high society.
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B.
Mac Giolla Phádraig dynasty
The Mac Giolla Phádraig dynasty was a prominent Gaelic Irish royal family that held kingship and later lordship in parts of what is now County Laois, playing a significant role in medieval Leinster politics.
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C.
O'Conor family
The O'Conor family is a historic Irish noble lineage traditionally recognized as the ruling dynasty of the medieval Kingdom of Connacht and claimants to the title of High Kings of Ireland.
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D.
Conyngham family
The Conyngham family is an Anglo-Irish aristocratic lineage historically prominent in County Meath, Ireland, known especially for their long association with and residence at Slane Castle.
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E.
FitzGerald family
The FitzGerald family is a prominent Anglo-Norman dynasty in Ireland historically known as the Earls of Kildare and Desmond, influential in Irish politics and society from the medieval period onward.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglo-Irish family
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family ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activity |
merchant trade
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milling ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Yeats family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Sligo town NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Jack B. Yeats
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lily Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ Lolly Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ W. B. Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Sligo harbour
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sligo milling industry ⓘ |
| country | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | part of the background to the Irish Literary Revival through Yeats ⓘ |
| economicRole | local mercantile elite ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Anglo-Irish ⓘ |
| family | Pollexfen family of Sligo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritage |
British
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| historicalContext | 19th-century Irish commercial life ⓘ |
| industry |
grain milling
ⓘ
shipping and trade ⓘ |
| influenced | childhood environment of W. B. Yeats ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | Sligo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maternalFamilyOf | W. B. Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| member |
Elizabeth Pollexfen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frederick Pollexfen NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Pollexfen NERFINISHED ⓘ John Pollexfen NERFINISHED ⓘ Martha Pollexfen NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Pollexfen NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Pollexfen NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Pollexfen NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Mary Pollexfen NERFINISHED ⓘ William Pollexfen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | autobiographical writings of W. B. Yeats ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the maternal family of W. B. Yeats ⓘ |
| notableMember | Susan Mary Pollexfen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | County Sligo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
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| socialClass |
commercial bourgeoisie
ⓘ
middle class ⓘ |
| spouse | John Butler Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Pollexfen family of Sligo Description of subject: The Pollexfen family of Sligo was a prominent Anglo-Irish merchant and milling family in 19th-century Sligo, best known today as the maternal family of poet W. B. Yeats.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.