Riordan
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Riordan is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in politics, literature, and other fields.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Riordan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5406066 — 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: Riordan Context triple: [Richard J. Riordan, familyName, Riordan]
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A.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a popular fantasy book series by Rick Riordan that follows a modern-day boy who discovers he is a demigod and becomes embroiled in adventures involving Greek mythology.
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B.
Percy
Percy is a masculine given name of Old French origin, famously borne by American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy W. Bridgman.
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C.
Annabeth Kelly
Annabeth Kelly is an actress known for portraying the young version of chess prodigy Beth Harmon in the television miniseries "The Queen's Gambit."
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D.
Children of Poseidon
The Children of Poseidon are the various mythological offspring of the Greek sea god Poseidon, often depicted as powerful beings associated with the sea, earthquakes, and horses.
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E.
Annabeth Hartzog
Annabeth Hartzog is an American businesswoman and the longtime wife of actor John Goodman, known for her work in the fashion and clothing industry in New Orleans.
- 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: Riordan Target entity description: Riordan is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in politics, literature, and other fields.
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A.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a popular fantasy book series by Rick Riordan that follows a modern-day boy who discovers he is a demigod and becomes embroiled in adventures involving Greek mythology.
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B.
Percy
Percy is a masculine given name of Old French origin, famously borne by American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy W. Bridgman.
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C.
Annabeth Kelly
Annabeth Kelly is an actress known for portraying the young version of chess prodigy Beth Harmon in the television miniseries "The Queen's Gambit."
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D.
Children of Poseidon
The Children of Poseidon are the various mythological offspring of the Greek sea god Poseidon, often depicted as powerful beings associated with the sea, earthquakes, and horses.
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E.
Annabeth Hartzog
Annabeth Hartzog is an American businesswoman and the longtime wife of actor John Goodman, known for her work in the fashion and clothing industry in New Orleans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| fieldOfNotableBearers |
economics
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literature ⓘ mathematics ⓘ politics ⓘ public service ⓘ religion ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalOrigin | Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Ann Fienup-Riordan
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Cornelius Riordan ⓘ Daniel J. Riordan ⓘ James Riordan (footballer) ⓘ James Riordan (writer) ⓘ John Riordan (banker) ⓘ John Riordan (mathematician) ⓘ John Riordan (soldier) ⓘ Linda Riordan ⓘ Maurice Riordan ⓘ Michael H. Riordan ⓘ Patrick Riordan ⓘ Rick Riordan ⓘ Tim Riordan ⓘ William A. Riordan ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
O'Riordan
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Rearden ⓘ Reardon ⓘ Ó Riordáin ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | family name ⓘ |
| isUsedIn |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Riordan Description of subject: Riordan is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in politics, literature, and other fields.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.