Ballinalee, County Longford, Ireland
E1039454
Ballinalee in County Longford, Ireland, is a small rural village historically noted for its association with Irish War of Independence leader Seán Mac Eoin.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ballinalee, County Longford | 1 |
| Ballinalee, County Longford, Ireland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13417109 — 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: Ballinalee, County Longford, Ireland Context triple: [Seán Mac Eoin, placeOfBirth, Ballinalee, County Longford, Ireland]
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A.
Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland
Ballina, in County Mayo, Ireland, is a riverside town in the west of the country known for its salmon fishing on the River Moy and as the hometown of former Irish president Mary Robinson.
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B.
Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland
Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland is a small village in north County Kerry best known as the birthplace of British military leader Lord Kitchener.
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C.
Ballintemple, County Cork, Ireland
Ballintemple is a suburban area of Cork City in County Cork, Ireland, historically notable as the place where mathematician and logician George Boole died.
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D.
Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland
Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland is a rural village best known as the birthplace of renowned Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh and for its strong literary heritage.
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E.
Ballina, County Tipperary
Ballina, County Tipperary is a picturesque village in Ireland known for its riverside setting opposite Killaloe and its popularity for boating, angling, and tourism.
- 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: Ballinalee, County Longford, Ireland Target entity description: Ballinalee in County Longford, Ireland, is a small rural village historically noted for its association with Irish War of Independence leader Seán Mac Eoin.
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A.
Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland
Ballina, in County Mayo, Ireland, is a riverside town in the west of the country known for its salmon fishing on the River Moy and as the hometown of former Irish president Mary Robinson.
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B.
Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland
Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland is a small village in north County Kerry best known as the birthplace of British military leader Lord Kitchener.
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C.
Ballintemple, County Cork, Ireland
Ballintemple is a suburban area of Cork City in County Cork, Ireland, historically notable as the place where mathematician and logician George Boole died.
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D.
Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland
Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland is a rural village best known as the birthplace of renowned Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh and for its strong literary heritage.
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E.
Ballina, County Tipperary
Ballina, County Tipperary is a picturesque village in Ireland known for its riverside setting opposite Killaloe and its popularity for boating, angling, and tourism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | village ⓘ |
| administrativeCounty | Longford County Council ⓘ |
| associatedWithConflict | Irish War of Independence ⓘ |
| category | Towns and villages in County Longford ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
local shops
ⓘ
primary school ⓘ public house ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | Irish revolutionary period ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTown |
Granard
ⓘ
Longford ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson | Seán Mac Eoin ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding |
Church of Ireland church
ⓘ
Roman Catholic church ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | Battle of Ballinalee ⓘ |
| IrishName |
Béal Átha na Lao
ⓘ
linked to:
Béal Átha Liag
|
| knownFor |
association with Seán Mac Eoin
ⓘ
events during the Irish War of Independence ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
County Longford
ⓘ
midlands of Ireland ⓘ province of Leinster ⓘ |
| postalCountry | Ireland ⓘ |
| regionType | rural area ⓘ |
| roadAccess | regional roads in County Longford ⓘ |
| timeZone | WET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | IST ⓘ |
| usesUTCOffset | +0 ⓘ |
| usesUTCOffsetDST | +1 ⓘ |
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: Ballinalee, County Longford, Ireland Description of subject: Ballinalee in County Longford, Ireland, is a small rural village historically noted for its association with Irish War of Independence leader Seán Mac Eoin.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John Joseph McKeon
linked to: Ballinalee, County Longford, Ireland