Doherty
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Doherty is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, politics, sports, and the arts.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Doherty canonical | 10 |
| Docherty | 4 |
| Doherty (Anglicised form) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4810151 — 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: Doherty Context triple: [Peter C. Doherty, familyName, Doherty]
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A.
McDermott
McDermott is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as business, politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Rafferty
Rafferty is an English model and actor best known as the son of actor Jude Law and actress Sadie Frost.
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C.
Dinneen
Dinneen is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
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D.
O'Herlihy
O'Herlihy is an Irish surname associated with figures in film, television, and the arts.
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E.
O'Hara
O'Hara is the surname of Scarlett O'Hara, the headstrong Southern heroine of Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind."
- 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: Doherty Target entity description: Doherty is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, politics, sports, and the arts.
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A.
McDermott
McDermott is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as business, politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Rafferty
Rafferty is an English model and actor best known as the son of actor Jude Law and actress Sadie Frost.
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C.
Dinneen
Dinneen is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
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D.
O'Herlihy
O'Herlihy is an Irish surname associated with figures in film, television, and the arts.
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E.
O'Hara
O'Hara is the surname of Scarlett O'Hara, the headstrong Southern heroine of Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
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: Doherty Description of subject: Doherty is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, politics, sports, and the arts.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Doherty
linked to: Doherty
subject linked to:
Doherty
linked to: Doherty
linked to: Doherty
linked to: Doherty