1981 Irish general election
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The 1981 Irish general election was a national parliamentary election in Ireland that led to a change of government and took place amid intense political tension over the Northern Ireland hunger strikes.
All labels observed (1)
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| 1981 Irish general election canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7240381 — 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: 1981 Irish general election Context triple: [Kieran Doherty, election, 1981 Irish general election]
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A.
1997 Irish presidential election
The 1997 Irish presidential election was the contest in which Mary McAleese was elected President of Ireland, succeeding Mary Robinson and marking a continued era of female heads of state in the country.
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B.
1921 Northern Ireland general election
The 1921 Northern Ireland general election was the inaugural parliamentary election that established the political landscape of the newly created entity of Northern Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
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C.
2004 Irish presidential election
The 2004 Irish presidential election was effectively a non-contest in which incumbent president Mary McAleese was returned unopposed for a second term after no other candidates were nominated.
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D.
Northern Ireland Assembly elections
Northern Ireland Assembly elections are periodic democratic contests in which voters in Northern Ireland choose representatives to its devolved legislature at Stormont, determining the region’s power-sharing government.
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E.
1983 United Kingdom general election
The 1983 United Kingdom general election was a landslide parliamentary contest in which the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, won a dominant second term amid a divided opposition and the backdrop of the Falklands War.
- 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: 1981 Irish general election Target entity description: The 1981 Irish general election was a national parliamentary election in Ireland that led to a change of government and took place amid intense political tension over the Northern Ireland hunger strikes.
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A.
1997 Irish presidential election
The 1997 Irish presidential election was the contest in which Mary McAleese was elected President of Ireland, succeeding Mary Robinson and marking a continued era of female heads of state in the country.
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B.
1921 Northern Ireland general election
The 1921 Northern Ireland general election was the inaugural parliamentary election that established the political landscape of the newly created entity of Northern Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
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C.
2004 Irish presidential election
The 2004 Irish presidential election was effectively a non-contest in which incumbent president Mary McAleese was returned unopposed for a second term after no other candidates were nominated.
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D.
Northern Ireland Assembly elections
Northern Ireland Assembly elections are periodic democratic contests in which voters in Northern Ireland choose representatives to its devolved legislature at Stormont, determining the region’s power-sharing government.
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E.
1983 United Kingdom general election
The 1983 United Kingdom general election was a landslide parliamentary contest in which the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, won a dominant second term amid a divided opposition and the backdrop of the Falklands War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
How these facts were elicited
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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: 1981 Irish general election Description of subject: The 1981 Irish general election was a national parliamentary election in Ireland that led to a change of government and took place amid intense political tension over the Northern Ireland hunger strikes.
Referenced by (2)
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