Michael J. Shea
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Michael J. Shea was an American composer best known for co-writing the iconic University of Notre Dame fight song, the "Notre Dame Victory March."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael J. Shea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10599529 — 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: Michael J. Shea Context triple: [Notre Dame Victory March, composer, Michael J. Shea]
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A.
Michael P. Cahill
Michael P. Cahill is an American local politician who has served as the mayor of Beverly, Massachusetts.
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B.
Matthew F. Leonetti
Matthew F. Leonetti is an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films across action, comedy, and science fiction genres.
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C.
Matthew J. Driscoll
Matthew J. Driscoll is an American politician and public official from New York who has served as mayor of Syracuse and later held statewide leadership roles in transportation and infrastructure.
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D.
Timothy J. Geraghty
Timothy J. Geraghty is a retired U.S. Marine Corps general best known for commanding American forces during the Multinational Force in Lebanon deployment in the early 1980s.
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E.
Michael H. Moloney
Michael H. Moloney is a physics-focused science policy and leadership professional who serves as the chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics.
- 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: Michael J. Shea Target entity description: Michael J. Shea was an American composer best known for co-writing the iconic University of Notre Dame fight song, the "Notre Dame Victory March."
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A.
Michael P. Cahill
Michael P. Cahill is an American local politician who has served as the mayor of Beverly, Massachusetts.
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B.
Matthew F. Leonetti
Matthew F. Leonetti is an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films across action, comedy, and science fiction genres.
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C.
Matthew J. Driscoll
Matthew J. Driscoll is an American politician and public official from New York who has served as mayor of Syracuse and later held statewide leadership roles in transportation and infrastructure.
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D.
Timothy J. Geraghty
Timothy J. Geraghty is a retired U.S. Marine Corps general best known for commanding American forces during the Multinational Force in Lebanon deployment in the early 1980s.
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E.
Michael H. Moloney
Michael H. Moloney is a physics-focused science policy and leadership professional who serves as the chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Notre Dame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Notre Dame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
college fight songs
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music composition ⓘ |
| genre |
fight song
ⓘ
march ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | songwriter ⓘ |
| hasWork | Notre Dame Victory March NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | American collegiate marching band tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notability | co-wrote the University of Notre Dame fight song "Notre Dame Victory March" ⓘ |
| notableFor | contribution to American college football music culture ⓘ |
| notableWork | Notre Dame Victory March NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | composer ⓘ |
| workLocation | Notre Dame, Indiana 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: Michael J. Shea Description of subject: Michael J. Shea was an American composer best known for co-writing the iconic University of Notre Dame fight song, the "Notre Dame Victory March."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.