Nevil Macready
E94516
Nevil Macready was a British Army general best known for serving as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nevil Macready canonical | 2 |
| Nevil | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T743409 — 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: Nevil Macready Context triple: [Irish War of Independence, combatantCommander, Nevil Macready]
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A.
Tilbury Douglas
Tilbury Douglas is a UK-based engineering and construction company known for delivering major infrastructure and building projects, including work on the London Eye.
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B.
Frederick Sykes
Frederick Sykes was a British military officer and air power pioneer who served as an early leader of the Royal Flying Corps and later became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force.
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C.
Cyril Proudbottom
Cyril Proudbottom is a comical, carefree horse character from Disney’s animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" segment in *The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad*.
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D.
Raymond Collishaw
Raymond Collishaw was a Canadian First World War flying ace and one of the highest-scoring fighter pilots of the conflict.
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E.
Bertram Ramsay
Bertram Ramsay was a British admiral who played a key role in planning and directing major Allied naval operations during World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation and the D-Day landings.
- 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: Nevil Macready Target entity description: Nevil Macready was a British Army general best known for serving as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
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A.
Tilbury Douglas
Tilbury Douglas is a UK-based engineering and construction company known for delivering major infrastructure and building projects, including work on the London Eye.
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B.
Frederick Sykes
Frederick Sykes was a British military officer and air power pioneer who served as an early leader of the Royal Flying Corps and later became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force.
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C.
Cyril Proudbottom
Cyril Proudbottom is a comical, carefree horse character from Disney’s animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" segment in *The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad*.
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D.
Raymond Collishaw
Raymond Collishaw was a Canadian First World War flying ace and one of the highest-scoring fighter pilots of the conflict.
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E.
Bertram Ramsay
Bertram Ramsay was a British admiral who played a key role in planning and directing major Allied naval operations during World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation and the D-Day landings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
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: Nevil Macready Description of subject: Nevil Macready was a British Army general best known for serving as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nevil