Máire MacEntee
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Máire MacEntee was an Irish civil servant and diplomat, noted both for her own public service career and as the wife of writer, politician, and diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Máire MacEntee canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8972614 — 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: Máire MacEntee Context triple: [Conor Cruise O'Brien, spouse, Máire MacEntee]
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A.
Kathleen Nolan
Kathleen Nolan is an American actress best known for her role as Kate McCoy on the classic television sitcom "The Real McCoys."
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B.
Cecile O'Rahilly
Cecile O'Rahilly was an Irish Celtic scholar and linguist noted for her editions and translations of early Irish texts.
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C.
Fionnuala O'Kelly
Fionnuala O'Kelly is an Irish public figure best known as the wife of former Taoiseach Enda Kenny and for her previous career as a journalist and political adviser.
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D.
Mary Josephine Mulcahy
Mary Josephine Mulcahy was the wife of Irish revolutionary leader and politician Richard Mulcahy, associated with Ireland’s early 20th-century political and military history.
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E.
Mary Therese Winifred Bourke
Mary Therese Winifred Bourke is the birth name of Mary Robinson, the Irish lawyer and politician who served as the first female President of Ireland and later as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- 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: Máire MacEntee Target entity description: Máire MacEntee was an Irish civil servant and diplomat, noted both for her own public service career and as the wife of writer, politician, and diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien.
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A.
Kathleen Nolan
Kathleen Nolan is an American actress best known for her role as Kate McCoy on the classic television sitcom "The Real McCoys."
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B.
Cecile O'Rahilly
Cecile O'Rahilly was an Irish Celtic scholar and linguist noted for her editions and translations of early Irish texts.
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C.
Fionnuala O'Kelly
Fionnuala O'Kelly is an Irish public figure best known as the wife of former Taoiseach Enda Kenny and for her previous career as a journalist and political adviser.
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D.
Mary Josephine Mulcahy
Mary Josephine Mulcahy was the wife of Irish revolutionary leader and politician Richard Mulcahy, associated with Ireland’s early 20th-century political and military history.
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E.
Mary Therese Winifred Bourke
Mary Therese Winifred Bourke is the birth name of Mary Robinson, the Irish lawyer and politician who served as the first female President of Ireland and later as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish civil servant
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Irish diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Irish ⓘ |
| notableFor | public service career ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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diplomat ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Conor Cruise O'Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Conor Cruise O'Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
diplomat
ⓘ
politician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
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: Máire MacEntee Description of subject: Máire MacEntee was an Irish civil servant and diplomat, noted both for her own public service career and as the wife of writer, politician, and diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.