Alan Kelly
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Alan Kelly is an Irish professional soccer referee known for officiating high-profile matches in Major League Soccer and internationally.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Kelly canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5473269 — 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: Alan Kelly Context triple: [MLS Cup 2016, referee, Alan Kelly]
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A.
Patrick Eagan
Patrick Eagan was an early Irish immigrant settler and local political figure after whom the city of Eagan, Minnesota, is named.
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B.
John O'Connor
John O'Connor was a prominent American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of New York in the late 20th century and was known for his outspoken views on social and moral issues.
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C.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
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D.
Joseph Jerome McGinnity
Joseph Jerome McGinnity was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher of the early 20th century, famed for his durability and nickname "Iron Man" for frequently pitching both games of doubleheaders.
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E.
Thomas Fitzgerald
Thomas Fitzgerald was an American politician and Boston city councilor best known as the father of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and grandfather of President John F. Kennedy.
- 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: Alan Kelly Target entity description: Alan Kelly is an Irish professional soccer referee known for officiating high-profile matches in Major League Soccer and internationally.
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A.
Patrick Eagan
Patrick Eagan was an early Irish immigrant settler and local political figure after whom the city of Eagan, Minnesota, is named.
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B.
John O'Connor
John O'Connor was a prominent American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of New York in the late 20th century and was known for his outspoken views on social and moral issues.
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C.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
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D.
Joseph Jerome McGinnity
Joseph Jerome McGinnity was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher of the early 20th century, famed for his durability and nickname "Iron Man" for frequently pitching both games of doubleheaders.
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E.
Thomas Fitzgerald
Thomas Fitzgerald was an American politician and Boston city councilor best known as the father of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and grandfather of President John F. Kennedy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football referee
ⓘ
human ⓘ sports official ⓘ |
| activity | officiating high-profile soccer matches ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Professional Referee Organization ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| employer | Major League Soccer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | football refereeing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasExperienceIn |
North American professional soccer
ⓘ
international football competitions ⓘ |
| hasNotableRole | professional soccer referee ⓘ |
| isA | professional referee ⓘ |
| knownFor |
officiating in Major League Soccer
ⓘ
officiating international football matches ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableIn |
Major League Soccer playoff matches
ⓘ
Major League Soccer regular season matches ⓘ |
| occupation | football referee ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| typeOfOfficial | match referee ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| worksIn | top-level professional football competitions ⓘ |
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: Alan Kelly Description of subject: Alan Kelly is an Irish professional soccer referee known for officiating high-profile matches in Major League Soccer and internationally.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.