Dan O'Herlihy
E525640
Dan O'Herlihy was an Irish-born actor known for his distinguished character roles in film and television, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" and memorable parts in movies like "RoboCop" and "Halloween III: Season of the Witch."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dan O'Herlihy canonical | 12 |
| Dan O’Herlihy | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5349452 — 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: Dan O'Herlihy Context triple: [The Purple Mask, hasCastMember, Dan O'Herlihy]
-
A.
Michael O’Rourke
Michael O’Rourke is an Irish media entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the international sports television network Setanta Sports.
-
B.
Mike O’Shea
Mike O’Shea is a Canadian football coach and former linebacker best known for leading the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to multiple Grey Cup championships in the CFL.
-
C.
Kevin O'Connell
Kevin O'Connell is an American football coach and former NFL quarterback who serves as the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings.
-
D.
Mark O’Connor
Mark O’Connor is an American violinist, composer, and fiddler renowned for blending classical, jazz, and American folk traditions, particularly in contemporary string music.
-
E.
Tom Doherty
Tom Doherty is an American publisher best known as the founder of the science fiction and fantasy imprint Tor 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: Dan O'Herlihy Target entity description: Dan O'Herlihy was an Irish-born actor known for his distinguished character roles in film and television, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" and memorable parts in movies like "RoboCop" and "Halloween III: Season of the Witch."
-
A.
Michael O’Rourke
Michael O’Rourke is an Irish media entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the international sports television network Setanta Sports.
-
B.
Mike O’Shea
Mike O’Shea is a Canadian football coach and former linebacker best known for leading the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to multiple Grey Cup championships in the CFL.
-
C.
Kevin O'Connell
Kevin O'Connell is an American football coach and former NFL quarterback who serves as the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings.
-
D.
Mark O’Connor
Mark O’Connor is an American violinist, composer, and fiddler renowned for blending classical, jazz, and American folk traditions, particularly in contemporary string music.
-
E.
Tom Doherty
Tom Doherty is an American publisher best known as the founder of the science fiction and fantasy imprint Tor Books.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Dan O'Herlihy Description of subject: Dan O'Herlihy was an Irish-born actor known for his distinguished character roles in film and television, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" and memorable parts in movies like "RoboCop" and "Halloween III: Season of the Witch."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "RoboCop"
subject linked to:
The Big Cube (1969 film)
linked to: Dan O'Herlihy
linked to: Dan O'Herlihy
linked to: Dan O'Herlihy
linked to: Dan O'Herlihy