Thomas MacDonagh
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Thomas MacDonagh was an Irish nationalist, poet, and educator who became one of the key signatories of the 1916 Proclamation and was executed for his role in the struggle for Irish independence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas MacDonagh canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4096966 — 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: Thomas MacDonagh Context triple: [Easter Rising, leader, Thomas MacDonagh]
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Cathal Brugha
Cathal Brugha was an Irish revolutionary leader and politician who played a key role in the struggle for independence, serving as a senior commander in the IRA and later as the first chairman of Dáil Éireann.
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B.
Joseph Plunkett
Joseph Plunkett was an Irish nationalist, poet, and one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising who was executed for his role in the rebellion.
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C.
Patrick Pearse
Patrick Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, and revolutionary leader who served as one of the principal organizers and the symbolic figurehead of the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule.
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D.
Éamonn Ceannt
Éamonn Ceannt was an Irish republican revolutionary, a founding member of the Irish Volunteers, and one of the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation who was executed for his role in the Easter Rising.
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E.
Terence MacSwiney
Terence MacSwiney was an Irish playwright, politician, and Lord Mayor of Cork whose death on hunger strike in 1920 made him an international symbol of resistance to British rule.
- 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: Thomas MacDonagh Target entity description: Thomas MacDonagh was an Irish nationalist, poet, and educator who became one of the key signatories of the 1916 Proclamation and was executed for his role in the struggle for Irish independence.
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A.
Cathal Brugha
Cathal Brugha was an Irish revolutionary leader and politician who played a key role in the struggle for independence, serving as a senior commander in the IRA and later as the first chairman of Dáil Éireann.
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B.
Joseph Plunkett
Joseph Plunkett was an Irish nationalist, poet, and one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising who was executed for his role in the rebellion.
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C.
Patrick Pearse
Patrick Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, and revolutionary leader who served as one of the principal organizers and the symbolic figurehead of the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule.
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D.
Éamonn Ceannt
Éamonn Ceannt was an Irish republican revolutionary, a founding member of the Irish Volunteers, and one of the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation who was executed for his role in the Easter Rising.
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E.
Terence MacSwiney
Terence MacSwiney was an Irish playwright, politician, and Lord Mayor of Cork whose death on hunger strike in 1920 made him an international symbol of resistance to British rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Thomas MacDonagh Description of subject: Thomas MacDonagh was an Irish nationalist, poet, and educator who became one of the key signatories of the 1916 Proclamation and was executed for his role in the struggle for Irish independence.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.