Oleary
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Oleary is a variant spelling of the Irish surname O'Leary, commonly used as a family name.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oleary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6610036 — 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: Oleary Context triple: [O'Leary, hasVariant, Oleary]
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A.
Durack
Durack is a vast federal electoral division in Western Australia that encompasses much of the state's remote northern and central regions, including the Pilbara.
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B.
Cleland
Cleland is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, known historically for its coal mining heritage and proximity to Motherwell and Wishaw.
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C.
Sholto
Sholto is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, historically associated with figures such as military leaders and nobles.
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D.
Loughery
Loughery is a surname most notably associated with former American professional basketball player and coach Kevin Loughery.
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E.
Nealey
Nealey is a surname, often of English or Irish origin, used by various individuals and families.
- 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: Oleary Target entity description: Oleary is a variant spelling of the Irish surname O'Leary, commonly used as a family name.
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A.
Durack
Durack is a vast federal electoral division in Western Australia that encompasses much of the state's remote northern and central regions, including the Pilbara.
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B.
Cleland
Cleland is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, known historically for its coal mining heritage and proximity to Motherwell and Wishaw.
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C.
Sholto
Sholto is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, historically associated with figures such as military leaders and nobles.
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D.
Loughery
Loughery is a surname most notably associated with former American professional basketball player and coach Kevin Loughery.
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E.
Nealey
Nealey is a surname, often of English or Irish origin, used by various individuals and families.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | O'Leary ⓘ |
| hasCategory | Anglicised Irish surname ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Leary
ⓘ
O ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasNameType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
O Leary
ⓘ
O’Leary ⓘ
linked to:
O'Leary
|
| hasVariantSpelling | O'Leary ⓘ |
| isUsedIn | English-speaking countries ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
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: Oleary Description of subject: Oleary is a variant spelling of the Irish surname O'Leary, commonly used as a family name.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.