Hugh O'Conor
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Hugh O'Conor is an Irish actor and director known for his early acclaimed performance as the young Christy Brown in the film "My Left Foot."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hugh O'Conor canonical | 5 |
| Hugh O’Connor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5694038 — 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: Hugh O'Conor Context triple: [My Left Foot, starredActor, Hugh O'Conor]
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A.
Hugh O’Connor
Hugh O’Connor was an American actor best known for his role as Officer Lonnie Jamison on the television series "In the Heat of the Night" and as the adopted son of actor Carroll O’Connor.
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B.
Rory O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell
Rory O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell, was an Irish Gaelic nobleman and chieftain who became one of the leading figures in early 17th-century Ireland, best known for his role in the exile of Irish nobility known as the Flight of the Earls.
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C.
Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor was an Irish post-impressionist painter known for his bold use of color and texture and his association with avant-garde artists in late 19th-century France.
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D.
Robert Dillon, 1st Baron Clonbrock
Robert Dillon, 1st Baron Clonbrock, was an 18th-century Irish peer and politician who founded the Clonbrock branch of the Dillon noble family.
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E.
Wolf O'Donnell
Wolf O'Donnell is a recurring antagonist and rival mercenary leader in Nintendo's Star Fox series, known as the cunning commander of the Star Wolf team and chief rival to Fox McCloud.
- 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: Hugh O'Conor Target entity description: Hugh O'Conor is an Irish actor and director known for his early acclaimed performance as the young Christy Brown in the film "My Left Foot."
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A.
Hugh O’Connor
Hugh O’Connor was an American actor best known for his role as Officer Lonnie Jamison on the television series "In the Heat of the Night" and as the adopted son of actor Carroll O’Connor.
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B.
Rory O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell
Rory O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell, was an Irish Gaelic nobleman and chieftain who became one of the leading figures in early 17th-century Ireland, best known for his role in the exile of Irish nobility known as the Flight of the Earls.
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C.
Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor was an Irish post-impressionist painter known for his bold use of color and texture and his association with avant-garde artists in late 19th-century France.
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D.
Robert Dillon, 1st Baron Clonbrock
Robert Dillon, 1st Baron Clonbrock, was an 18th-century Irish peer and politician who founded the Clonbrock branch of the Dillon noble family.
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E.
Wolf O'Donnell
Wolf O'Donnell is a recurring antagonist and rival mercenary leader in Nintendo's Star Fox series, known as the cunning commander of the Star Wolf team and chief rival to Fox McCloud.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
human ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Young Artist Award nomination for My Left Foot ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Ireland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1975-04-19 ⓘ |
| directed |
Metal Heart
ⓘ
The Stag ⓘ various short films ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
National Film School at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
ⓘ
New York Film Academy ⓘ |
| familyName | O'Conor ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy films
ⓘ
drama films ⓘ |
| givenName | Hugh ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0641401 ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying young Christy Brown in My Left Foot ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | Hugh O'Conor ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Chocolat
ⓘ
Handsome Devil ⓘ Lamb ⓘ My Left Foot ⓘ The Clinic ⓘ The Stag ⓘ
linked to:
Stag
The Tudors ⓘ The Young Poisoner's Handbook ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dublin ⓘ |
| residence | Ireland ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Daniel Day-Lewis
ⓘ
Jim Sheridan ⓘ Lenny Abrahamson ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980s–present ⓘ |
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: Hugh O'Conor Description of subject: Hugh O'Conor is an Irish actor and director known for his early acclaimed performance as the young Christy Brown in the film "My Left Foot."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hugh O'Conor