Iris Robinson
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former Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
former member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
human
politician
Iris Robinson is a Northern Irish former Democratic Unionist Party politician and ex-Member of Parliament who became widely known following a high-profile personal and financial scandal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iris Robinson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4583351 — 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: Iris Robinson Context triple: [Peter Robinson, spouse, Iris Robinson]
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A.
Iris Henderson
Iris Henderson is the spirited young English tourist who becomes the central heroine and amateur sleuth in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic mystery film "The Lady Vanishes."
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B.
Grace Petrie
Grace Petrie is a British folk singer-songwriter and political activist known for her sharp, socially conscious lyrics and frequent appearances on BBC Radio 4 comedy and current affairs programmes.
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C.
Rosalie Booth
Rosalie Booth was a 19th-century American woman best known as a member of the prominent Booth theatrical family, which included several famous stage actors.
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D.
Muriel Deacon
Muriel Deacon is a central family matriarch in the British dystopian drama series "Years and Years," known for anchoring the Lyons family through rapidly changing political and technological upheavals.
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E.
Jeanne Fisher
Jeanne Fisher is best known as the wife of John Ehrlichman, a key domestic affairs adviser to U.S. President Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.
- 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: Iris Robinson Target entity description: Iris Robinson is a Northern Irish former Democratic Unionist Party politician and ex-Member of Parliament who became widely known following a high-profile personal and financial scandal.
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A.
Iris Henderson
Iris Henderson is the spirited young English tourist who becomes the central heroine and amateur sleuth in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic mystery film "The Lady Vanishes."
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B.
Grace Petrie
Grace Petrie is a British folk singer-songwriter and political activist known for her sharp, socially conscious lyrics and frequent appearances on BBC Radio 4 comedy and current affairs programmes.
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C.
Rosalie Booth
Rosalie Booth was a 19th-century American woman best known as a member of the prominent Booth theatrical family, which included several famous stage actors.
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D.
Muriel Deacon
Muriel Deacon is a central family matriarch in the British dystopian drama series "Years and Years," known for anchoring the Lyons family through rapidly changing political and technological upheavals.
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E.
Jeanne Fisher
Jeanne Fisher is best known as the wife of John Ehrlichman, a key domestic affairs adviser to U.S. President Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
ⓘ
former member of the Northern Ireland Assembly ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| causeOfResignation |
extramarital affair scandal
ⓘ
financial scandal ⓘ |
| constituency | Strangford ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Northern Ireland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ulster Protestant ⓘ |
| familyName | Robinson ⓘ |
| givenName | Iris ⓘ |
| hasBeenSubjectOf |
BBC Spotlight documentary coverage
ⓘ
media investigations ⓘ |
| knownFor |
role as wife of former First Minister Peter Robinson
ⓘ
service as DUP representative for Strangford ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Unionist Party ⓘ |
| name | Iris Robinson ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversy over financial arrangements related to her lover’s business
ⓘ
extramarital affair with a younger man ⓘ involvement in a high-profile personal and financial scandal ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | UK general elections in Strangford ⓘ |
| parliament |
Parliament of the United Kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
British Parliament
|
| partyRole | prominent female representative of the Democratic Unionist Party ⓘ |
| politicalIdeology |
social conservatism
ⓘ
unionism ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Mayor of Castlereagh
ⓘ
Member of Castlereagh Borough Council ⓘ Member of Parliament for Strangford ⓘ Member of the Legislative Assembly for Strangford ⓘ |
| positionOnLGBTIssues | publicly expressed strong opposition to homosexuality ⓘ |
| publicImage | controversial political figure in Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| regionActive | Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| regionOfPoliticalActivity |
Castlereagh
ⓘ
Strangford ⓘ |
| relative | Peter Robinson ⓘ |
| religion |
Evangelical Protestantism
ⓘ
linked to:
Evangelicalism
Presbyterianism ⓘ
linked to:
Presbyterian
|
| represents | Strangford ⓘ |
| residence | Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Peter Robinson ⓘ |
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: Iris Robinson Description of subject: Iris Robinson is a Northern Irish former Democratic Unionist Party politician and ex-Member of Parliament who became widely known following a high-profile personal and financial scandal.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.