Kilmainham Gaol
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Kilmainham Gaol is a former prison in Dublin, Ireland, now a museum, renowned for its role in Irish revolutionary history and the incarceration of many leaders of the independence movement.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kilmainham Gaol canonical | 9 |
| Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland | 2 |
| Kilmainham | 1 |
| Kilmainham Gaol Museum | 1 |
| Kilmainham Gaol complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T407146 — 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: Kilmainham Gaol Context triple: [Dublin, hasLandmark, Kilmainham Gaol]
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Crumlin Road Gaol
Crumlin Road Gaol is a historic 19th-century former prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland, now operating as a museum and tourist attraction.
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B.
Dublin Castle
Dublin Castle is a historic fortress and former seat of British rule in Ireland, now serving as a major government complex and tourist attraction in central Dublin.
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C.
Cill Phádraig
Cill Phádraig is an Irish place name meaning "Patrick's church," from which the anglicized name Kilpatrick is derived.
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General Post Office, Dublin
The General Post Office in Dublin is a landmark 19th-century neoclassical building on O’Connell Street, best known as the headquarters of the 1916 Easter Rising and a powerful symbol of Irish nationalism.
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E.
National Famine Memorial (Murrisk, County Mayo)
The National Famine Memorial in Murrisk, County Mayo is a striking bronze sculpture by artist John Behan that honors the victims and emigrants of Ireland’s Great Famine.
- 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: Kilmainham Gaol Target entity description: Kilmainham Gaol is a former prison in Dublin, Ireland, now a museum, renowned for its role in Irish revolutionary history and the incarceration of many leaders of the independence movement.
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A.
Crumlin Road Gaol
Crumlin Road Gaol is a historic 19th-century former prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland, now operating as a museum and tourist attraction.
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B.
Dublin Castle
Dublin Castle is a historic fortress and former seat of British rule in Ireland, now serving as a major government complex and tourist attraction in central Dublin.
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C.
Cill Phádraig
Cill Phádraig is an Irish place name meaning "Patrick's church," from which the anglicized name Kilpatrick is derived.
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D.
General Post Office, Dublin
The General Post Office in Dublin is a landmark 19th-century neoclassical building on O’Connell Street, best known as the headquarters of the 1916 Easter Rising and a powerful symbol of Irish nationalism.
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E.
National Famine Memorial (Murrisk, County Mayo)
The National Famine Memorial in Murrisk, County Mayo is a striking bronze sculpture by artist John Behan that honors the victims and emigrants of Ireland’s Great Famine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Kilmainham Gaol Description of subject: Kilmainham Gaol is a former prison in Dublin, Ireland, now a museum, renowned for its role in Irish revolutionary history and the incarceration of many leaders of the independence movement.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kilmainham
this entity surface form:
Kilmainham Gaol Museum
this entity surface form:
Kilmainham Gaol complex
this entity surface form:
Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland
this entity surface form:
Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland