Constable Patrick O’Connell
E407606
Constable Patrick O’Connell was a Royal Irish Constabulary officer who became historically notable as one of the first policemen killed in the Soloheadbeg ambush at the outset of the Irish War of Independence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Constable Patrick O’Connell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4001321 — 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: Constable Patrick O’Connell Context triple: [Soloheadbeg ambush, killed, Constable Patrick O’Connell]
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A.
Constable James McDonnell
Constable James McDonnell was a Royal Irish Constabulary officer notable for being one of the first policemen killed in the Irish War of Independence during the Soloheadbeg ambush in 1919.
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B.
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway is a thoughtful, intellectual police detective and Robbie Lewis’s younger partner in the British crime drama series "Lewis," set in Oxford.
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C.
James Dillon
James Dillon was an Irish politician who led the Fine Gael party and served as a prominent member of Dáil Éireann in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Jack Irish
Jack Irish is a fictional Australian former criminal lawyer turned private investigator and debt collector, best known as the title character in a series of crime novels by Peter Temple and their television adaptations.
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E.
Sergeant Archibald Cutter
Sergeant Archibald Cutter is a roguish, treasure-seeking British soldier in colonial India, best known as one of the three main protagonists in the adventure film "Gunga Din."
- 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: Constable Patrick O’Connell Target entity description: Constable Patrick O’Connell was a Royal Irish Constabulary officer who became historically notable as one of the first policemen killed in the Soloheadbeg ambush at the outset of the Irish War of Independence.
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A.
Constable James McDonnell
Constable James McDonnell was a Royal Irish Constabulary officer notable for being one of the first policemen killed in the Irish War of Independence during the Soloheadbeg ambush in 1919.
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B.
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway is a thoughtful, intellectual police detective and Robbie Lewis’s younger partner in the British crime drama series "Lewis," set in Oxford.
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C.
James Dillon
James Dillon was an Irish politician who led the Fine Gael party and served as a prominent member of Dáil Éireann in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Jack Irish
Jack Irish is a fictional Australian former criminal lawyer turned private investigator and debt collector, best known as the title character in a series of crime novels by Peter Temple and their television adaptations.
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E.
Sergeant Archibald Cutter
Sergeant Archibald Cutter is a roguish, treasure-seeking British soldier in colonial India, best known as one of the three main protagonists in the adventure film "Gunga Din."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish War of Independence victim
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Royal Irish Constabulary officer ⓘ police officer ⓘ |
| armedForce | Royal Irish Constabulary ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
County Tipperary
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surface form:
County Tipperary, Ireland
|
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wounds ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn |
accounts of the Soloheadbeg ambush
ⓘ
histories of the Irish War of Independence ⓘ |
| conflict | Irish War of Independence ⓘ |
| countryOfService | Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 21 January 1919 ⓘ |
| deathContext | outset of the Irish War of Independence ⓘ |
| employer | Royal Irish Constabulary ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| event | Soloheadbeg ambush ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | one of the first policemen killed in the Irish War of Independence ⓘ |
| killedBy | Irish Volunteers ⓘ |
| killedIn | Soloheadbeg ambush ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| memorializedAs | victim of the Soloheadbeg ambush ⓘ |
| notableFor | being killed in the Soloheadbeg ambush ⓘ |
| opponent |
Irish Volunteers
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surface form:
Irish Republican Army (predecessor Irish Volunteers)
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| partOf | British-administered policing in Ireland ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary, Ireland ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Constable ⓘ |
| roleDuringEvent | escort for gelignite consignment ⓘ |
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: Constable Patrick O’Connell Description of subject: Constable Patrick O’Connell was a Royal Irish Constabulary officer who became historically notable as one of the first policemen killed in the Soloheadbeg ambush at the outset of the Irish War of Independence.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.