Sheridan
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Sheridan is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable figures in politics, the military, arts, and entertainment.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sheridan canonical | 30 |
| Sheridan (historical namesake, likely a person) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2204097 — 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: Sheridan Context triple: [Philip Sheridan, familyName, Sheridan]
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A.
Winfield
Winfield is a masculine given name most notably borne by 19th-century American military leader Winfield Scott.
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B.
Lawrence
Lawrence is a masculine given name of English origin, derived from the Latin "Laurentius" meaning "from Laurentum" or "crowned with laurel."
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C.
Lawrence
Lawrence is a city located within Marion County in the U.S. state of Indiana.
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D.
Lawrence
Lawrence is a historic mill city in northeastern Massachusetts that developed as a major textile manufacturing center along the Merrimack River.
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E.
Lawrence
Lawrence is the formal given name of Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and longtime leader of Oracle Corporation.
- 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: Sheridan Target entity description: Sheridan is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable figures in politics, the military, arts, and entertainment.
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A.
Winfield
Winfield is a masculine given name most notably borne by 19th-century American military leader Winfield Scott.
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B.
Lawrence
Lawrence is a historic mill city in northeastern Massachusetts that developed as a major textile manufacturing center along the Merrimack River.
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C.
Lawrence
Lawrence is a city located within Marion County in the U.S. state of Indiana.
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D.
Lawrence
Lawrence is a masculine given name of English origin, derived from the Latin "Laurentius" meaning "from Laurentum" or "crowned with laurel."
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E.
Lawrence
Lawrence is the formal given name of Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and longtime leader of Oracle Corporation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish surname
ⓘ
family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Anglicised Irish-language surnames
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Irish families ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Ann Sheridan
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Dinny Sheridan ⓘ Jim Sheridan ⓘ Liz Sheridan ⓘ Philip Sheridan ⓘ Richard Brinsley Sheridan ⓘ Sandy Sheridan ⓘ Sheridan Smith ⓘ Sherrié Austin (born Sherrie Veronica Krenn Sheridan) ⓘ Tony Sheridan ⓘ |
| hasSpellingType | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasUsage | English-speaking world ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
O'Sheridan
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Ó Sirideáin ⓘ |
| isDerivedFrom | Irish personal name Sirideáin or Síreidín ⓘ |
| usedAs |
surname in entertainment
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surname in politics ⓘ surname in the arts ⓘ surname in the military ⓘ |
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: Sheridan Description of subject: Sheridan is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable figures in politics, the military, arts, and entertainment.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.