Bernard Neeson
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Bernard Neeson is the father of actor Liam Neeson and the paternal grandfather of Daniel Neeson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bernard Neeson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8980625 — 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: Bernard Neeson Context triple: [Daniel Neeson, paternalGrandfather, Bernard Neeson]
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A.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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B.
Lewis Stevenson
Lewis Stevenson was an American politician and public servant from Illinois, known as a prominent member of the influential Stevenson political family.
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C.
George O’Hara
George O’Hara was an American silent film actor known for his leading and supporting roles in adventure and drama films of the 1920s.
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D.
Peter M. Nicholas
Peter M. Nicholas was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Boston Scientific and a major benefactor of environmental education and research.
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E.
George O’Brien
George O’Brien was an American film actor best known as a leading man in silent-era Westerns and adventure films who successfully transitioned into sound cinema.
- 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: Bernard Neeson Target entity description: Bernard Neeson is the father of actor Liam Neeson and the paternal grandfather of Daniel Neeson.
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A.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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B.
Lewis Stevenson
Lewis Stevenson was an American politician and public servant from Illinois, known as a prominent member of the influential Stevenson political family.
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C.
George O’Hara
George O’Hara was an American silent film actor known for his leading and supporting roles in adventure and drama films of the 1920s.
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D.
Peter M. Nicholas
Peter M. Nicholas was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Boston Scientific and a major benefactor of environmental education and research.
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E.
George O’Brien
George O’Brien was an American film actor best known as a leading man in silent-era Westerns and adventure films who successfully transitioned into sound cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Liam Neeson ⓘ |
| father | Bernard Neeson ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Liam Neeson ⓘ |
| paternalGrandfather | Bernard Neeson ⓘ |
| paternalGrandfatherOf | Daniel Neeson ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Bernard Neeson Description of subject: Bernard Neeson is the father of actor Liam Neeson and the paternal grandfather of Daniel Neeson.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.