Ó Ceallaigh
E450155
Ó Ceallaigh is an Irish Gaelic surname that is traditionally anglicised as Kelly, one of the most common family names in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ó Ceallaigh canonical | 4 |
| Ó Caoimh | 1 |
| Ó Ceallaig | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4537481 — 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: Ó Ceallaigh Context triple: [Kelly, hasAnglicisationOf, Ó Ceallaigh]
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A.
Mac Diarmada
Mac Diarmada is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin, historically associated with a prominent clan in Connacht.
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B.
Mac Dhùghaill
Mac Dhùghaill is a Scottish Gaelic surname that represents the original Gaelic form of the anglicized name MacDougall.
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C.
Cathal Ryan
Cathal Ryan was an Irish businessman and heir to the Ryanair fortune, known for his involvement in aviation and investment activities.
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D.
Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor was an Irish post-impressionist painter known for his bold use of color and texture and his association with avant-garde artists in late 19th-century France.
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E.
Tomás Mac Giolla
Tomás Mac Giolla was an Irish republican politician and long-time leader of Official Sinn Féin who later became president of the Workers' Party and served as a Teachta Dála (TD) and Lord Mayor of Dublin.
- 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: Ó Ceallaigh Target entity description: Ó Ceallaigh is an Irish Gaelic surname that is traditionally anglicised as Kelly, one of the most common family names in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
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A.
Mac Diarmada
Mac Diarmada is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin, historically associated with a prominent clan in Connacht.
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B.
Mac Dhùghaill
Mac Dhùghaill is a Scottish Gaelic surname that represents the original Gaelic form of the anglicized name MacDougall.
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C.
Cathal Ryan
Cathal Ryan was an Irish businessman and heir to the Ryanair fortune, known for his involvement in aviation and investment activities.
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D.
Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor was an Irish post-impressionist painter known for his bold use of color and texture and his association with avant-garde artists in late 19th-century France.
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E.
Tomás Mac Giolla
Tomás Mac Giolla was an Irish republican politician and long-time leader of Official Sinn Féin who later became president of the Workers' Party and served as a Teachta Dála (TD) and Lord Mayor of Dublin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish-language surname
ⓘ
family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Gaelic nobility
ⓘ
Irish clans ⓘ |
| category |
Irish families
ⓘ
Surnames of Irish origin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| derivedFromGivenName | Ceallach ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Gaelic ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | patronymic ⓘ |
| hasAnglicisedForm |
Kelly
ⓘ
O'Kelly ⓘ
linked to:
O’Kelly
|
| hasModernForm |
Kelly
ⓘ
O'Kelly ⓘ
linked to:
O’Kelly
|
| hasPrefix | Ó ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
O Ceallaigh
ⓘ
linked to:
O Flannagáin
Ó Ceallaig ⓘ
linked to:
Ó Ceallaigh
|
| historicalLanguageFamily | Goidelic languages ⓘ |
| isCommonIn | Irish diaspora ⓘ |
| isOneOfMostCommonSurnamesIn | Ireland ⓘ |
| isPatronymicFormOf | Ceallach ⓘ |
| language | Irish ⓘ |
| meaning | descendant of Ceallach ⓘ |
| prefixMeaning |
descendant of
ⓘ
grandson of ⓘ |
| region | Gaelic Ireland ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Irish people
ⓘ
people of Irish descent ⓘ |
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: Ó Ceallaigh Description of subject: Ó Ceallaigh is an Irish Gaelic surname that is traditionally anglicised as Kelly, one of the most common family names in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ó Ceallaigh
linked to: Ó Ceallaigh