Dervla Kirwan
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Dervla Kirwan is an Irish actress known for her work in television dramas such as "Ballykissangel," "Goodnight Sweetheart," and various stage and film roles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dervla Kirwan canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5253176 — 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: Dervla Kirwan Context triple: [Rupert Penry-Jones, spouse, Dervla Kirwan]
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A.
Catherine Farrell
Catherine Farrell is known as the sister of Irish actor Colin Farrell.
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B.
Siobhan Dowd
Siobhan Dowd was an award-winning British-Irish author best known for her powerful young adult novels that often explored themes of social justice, identity, and loss.
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C.
Sheila Delaney
Sheila Delaney was an influential English playwright and screenwriter best known for her groundbreaking play "A Taste of Honey," which brought working-class female perspectives to the forefront of British theatre and film.
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D.
Ruth Donnelly
Ruth Donnelly was an American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, comedic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Sheila Walsh
Sheila Walsh is a Scottish-born Christian singer, author, and speaker known for her contemporary Christian music and inspirational books.
- 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: Dervla Kirwan Target entity description: Dervla Kirwan is an Irish actress known for her work in television dramas such as "Ballykissangel," "Goodnight Sweetheart," and various stage and film roles.
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A.
Catherine Farrell
Catherine Farrell is known as the sister of Irish actor Colin Farrell.
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B.
Siobhan Dowd
Siobhan Dowd was an award-winning British-Irish author best known for her powerful young adult novels that often explored themes of social justice, identity, and loss.
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C.
Sheila Delaney
Sheila Delaney was an influential English playwright and screenwriter best known for her groundbreaking play "A Taste of Honey," which brought working-class female perspectives to the forefront of British theatre and film.
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D.
Ruth Donnelly
Ruth Donnelly was an American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, comedic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Sheila Walsh
Sheila Walsh is a Scottish-born Christian singer, author, and speaker known for her contemporary Christian music and inspirational books.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| characterIn |
Ballykissangel
NERFINISHED
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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor NERFINISHED ⓘ Goodnight Sweetheart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1971-10-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Gaiety School of Acting
NERFINISHED
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Loreto College, St Stephen’s Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish people ⓘ |
| familyName | Kirwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
film drama
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stage drama ⓘ television drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Dervla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Florence Penry-Jones
NERFINISHED
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Peter Penry-Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Dervla Kirwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Christmas Carol
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ballykissangel NERFINISHED ⓘ Doctor Who ⓘ Goodnight Sweetheart NERFINISHED ⓘ Injustice NERFINISHED ⓘ Ondine NERFINISHED ⓘ School for Seduction NERFINISHED ⓘ Smother NERFINISHED ⓘ The Silence NERFINISHED ⓘ The Stranger NERFINISHED ⓘ The Weir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Dublin
NERFINISHED
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Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCharacter |
Assumpta Fitzgerald
NERFINISHED
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Miss Hartigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoebe Bamford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Rupert Penry-Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980s–present ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Dervla Kirwan Description of subject: Dervla Kirwan is an Irish actress known for her work in television dramas such as "Ballykissangel," "Goodnight Sweetheart," and various stage and film roles.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Next Doctor