O'Cleary
E1031328
O'Cleary is an Irish surname, a variant of Cleary, traditionally associated with Gaelic families and heritage.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13268846 — 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: O'Cleary Context triple: [Cleary, hasVariantSpelling, O'Cleary]
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A.
O'Cullen
O'Cullen is an Irish surname, a variant of Cullen, typically associated with Gaelic family lineages.
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B.
Hansen Clarke
Hansen Clarke is an American politician and attorney from Michigan who served as a U.S. Representative for the Detroit area.
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C.
O’Halloran
O’Halloran is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals, including artists, musicians, and public figures.
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D.
O'Leary
O'Leary is an Irish surname commonly associated with notable figures in business, politics, and entertainment.
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E.
O'Herlihy
O'Herlihy is an Irish surname associated with figures in film, television, and the arts.
- 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: O'Cleary Target entity description: O'Cleary is an Irish surname, a variant of Cleary, traditionally associated with Gaelic families and heritage.
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A.
O'Cullen
O'Cullen is an Irish surname, a variant of Cullen, typically associated with Gaelic family lineages.
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B.
Hansen Clarke
Hansen Clarke is an American politician and attorney from Michigan who served as a U.S. Representative for the Detroit area.
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C.
O’Halloran
O’Halloran is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals, including artists, musicians, and public figures.
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D.
O'Leary
O'Leary is an Irish surname commonly associated with notable figures in business, politics, and entertainment.
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E.
O'Herlihy
O'Herlihy is an Irish surname associated with figures in film, television, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish surname
ⓘ
family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpacing |
O Cleary
ⓘ
linked to:
O'Cleary
|
| hasCategory |
Anglicised Irish surnames
ⓘ
Irish-language surnames ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | Irish heritage ⓘ |
| hasDiacritic | apostrophe ⓘ |
| hasEthnicAssociation | Irish people ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalMeaningRelatedTo |
cleric
ⓘ
scholar ⓘ |
| hasHeritageAssociation | Gaelic families ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalAssociation |
Gaelic learned families
ⓘ
Irish clans ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Gaelic
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasNameElement |
Cleary
ⓘ
O' ⓘ |
| hasRegionOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasSurnameType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| isDerivedFrom | Ó Cléirigh ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | family name ⓘ |
| isVariantOf | Cleary ⓘ |
| sharesOriginWith |
Cleary
ⓘ
O Cleary ⓘ
linked to:
O'Cleary
|
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: O'Cleary Description of subject: O'Cleary is an Irish surname, a variant of Cleary, traditionally associated with Gaelic families and heritage.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: O'Cleary
linked to: O'Cleary