Eoin MacNeill
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Irish nationalist
Irish politician
government minister
historian
human
member of parliament
revolutionary
scholar
university professor
Eoin MacNeill was an Irish scholar, nationalist leader, and co-founder of the Irish Volunteers who played a key role in the struggle for Irish independence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eoin MacNeill canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13132330 — 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: Eoin MacNeill Context triple: [Provisional Government of Ireland, notableMember, Eoin MacNeill]
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A.
Eoin O'Duffy
Eoin O'Duffy was an Irish military and political leader who rose to prominence as a senior IRA commander, later becoming Garda Commissioner and a prominent far-right, pro-fascist figure in 1930s Ireland.
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B.
Kevin Power
Kevin Power is a notable individual whose achievements or public presence have made the surname Power recognizable in contemporary culture.
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C.
Ernie O'Malley
Ernie O'Malley was an Irish revolutionary and writer who played a leading role in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War before later documenting his experiences in influential memoirs.
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D.
Thomas Francis O'Rahilly
Thomas Francis O'Rahilly was an Irish Celtic scholar and linguist noted for his influential work on early Irish history, language, and literature.
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E.
William J. Murtagh
William J. Murtagh was a prominent American architectural historian and preservationist who served as the first Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places.
- 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: Eoin MacNeill Target entity description: Eoin MacNeill was an Irish scholar, nationalist leader, and co-founder of the Irish Volunteers who played a key role in the struggle for Irish independence.
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A.
Eoin O'Duffy
Eoin O'Duffy was an Irish military and political leader who rose to prominence as a senior IRA commander, later becoming Garda Commissioner and a prominent far-right, pro-fascist figure in 1930s Ireland.
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B.
Kevin Power
Kevin Power is a notable individual whose achievements or public presence have made the surname Power recognizable in contemporary culture.
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C.
Ernie O'Malley
Ernie O'Malley was an Irish revolutionary and writer who played a leading role in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War before later documenting his experiences in influential memoirs.
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D.
Thomas Francis O'Rahilly
Thomas Francis O'Rahilly was an Irish Celtic scholar and linguist noted for his influential work on early Irish history, language, and literature.
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E.
William J. Murtagh
William J. Murtagh was a prominent American architectural historian and preservationist who served as the first Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish nationalist
ⓘ
Irish politician ⓘ government minister ⓘ historian ⓘ human ⓘ member of parliament ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ scholar ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| birthName | John McNeill ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St. Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton, Dublin ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Irish Volunteers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1867-05-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1945-10-15 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Queen's College Belfast
ⓘ
linked to:
Queen's College, Belfast
St Malachy's College ⓘ
linked to:
St Malachy’s College
|
| employer |
National University of Ireland
ⓘ
University College Dublin ⓘ |
| familyName |
MacNeill
ⓘ
linked to:
MacNeil
|
| fieldOfWork |
Celtic studies
ⓘ
Irish language ⓘ history ⓘ |
| givenName | Eoin ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding the Irish Volunteers
ⓘ
leadership in the Irish nationalist movement ⓘ scholarship in early Irish history ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Cumann na nGaedheal
ⓘ
Gaelic League ⓘ
linked to:
Conradh na Gaeilge
Irish Parliamentary Party ⓘ Irish Volunteers ⓘ |
| name | Eoin MacNeill ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Celtic Ireland
ⓘ
linked to:
Gaelic Ireland
Phases of Irish History ⓘ The Irish Volunteers manifesto in An Claidheamh Soluis ⓘ
linked to:
Irish Volunteers
|
| numberOfChildren | 8 ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
ⓘ
historian ⓘ journalist ⓘ politician ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Anglo-Irish Treaty debates
ⓘ
Irish Volunteers leadership ⓘ Irish War of Independence ⓘ Irish independence movement ⓘ
linked to:
Irish republican movement
|
| placeOfBirth |
County Antrim
ⓘ
Glenarm ⓘ Ireland ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Dublin
ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann
ⓘ
Member of Parliament for the Irish Parliamentary Party ⓘ Minister for Education of Ireland ⓘ Minister for Education of the Irish Free State ⓘ
linked to:
Minister for Education of Ireland
Professor of Early Irish History at University College Dublin ⓘ Teachta Dála ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse | Agnes Moore ⓘ |
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: Eoin MacNeill Description of subject: Eoin MacNeill was an Irish scholar, nationalist leader, and co-founder of the Irish Volunteers who played a key role in the struggle for Irish independence.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.