O’Toole
E431412
O’Toole is an Irish surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as politics, entertainment, and sports.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4338649 — 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’Toole Context triple: [Fran O’Toole, familyName, O’Toole]
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A.
Mark O'Toole
Mark O'Toole is a writer best known for his work on the British sitcom "Relax."
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B.
Mark O'Toole
Mark O'Toole is an English musician and bassist best known as a founding member of the 1980s pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
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C.
O'Rourke
O'Rourke is an Irish surname historically associated with several notable figures in politics, the arts, and public life.
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D.
Dunleavy
Dunleavy is a surname most prominently associated with Mike Dunleavy Sr., a former NBA player and head coach, and his family of professional basketball figures.
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E.
Fred Kilgour
Fred Kilgour was an American librarian and information scientist best known for pioneering online library cataloging and founding the OCLC cooperative.
- 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’Toole Target entity description: O’Toole is an Irish surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as politics, entertainment, and sports.
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A.
Mark O'Toole
Mark O'Toole is a writer best known for his work on the British sitcom "Relax."
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B.
Mark O'Toole
Mark O'Toole is an English musician and bassist best known as a founding member of the 1980s pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
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C.
O'Rourke
O'Rourke is an Irish surname historically associated with several notable figures in politics, the arts, and public life.
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D.
Dunleavy
Dunleavy is a surname most prominently associated with Mike Dunleavy Sr., a former NBA player and head coach, and his family of professional basketball figures.
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E.
Fred Kilgour
Fred Kilgour was an American librarian and information scientist best known for pioneering online library cataloging and founding the OCLC cooperative.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish surname
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person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
Anglicised Irish-language surnames
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Irish families ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Canada
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Ireland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| familyName | O’Toole ⓘ |
| fieldOfNotableBearers |
entertainment
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politics ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
O'Toole
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linked to:
O’Toole
|
| languageOfOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Annette O'Toole
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Erin O'Toole ⓘ Gary O'Toole ⓘ John O'Toole ⓘ Kate O'Toole ⓘ Mick O'Toole ⓘ Paul O'Toole ⓘ Peter O'Toole ⓘ Richard O'Toole ⓘ Thomas O'Toole ⓘ |
| notableWork | Lawrence of Arabia ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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actress ⓘ drummer ⓘ ice hockey player ⓘ journalist ⓘ musician ⓘ politician ⓘ racehorse trainer ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
English
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Irish ⓘ |
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’Toole Description of subject: O’Toole is an Irish surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as politics, entertainment, and sports.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: O’Toole
linked to: O’Toole
linked to: O’Toole
subject linked to:
O’Toole
linked to: O’Toole
linked to: O’Toole