Éamon de Valera
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Éamon de Valera was a dominant 20th-century Irish political leader and statesman who helped shape modern Ireland as a revolutionary, long-serving Taoiseach, and later President.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Éamon de Valera canonical | 41 |
| Eamon de Valera | 1 |
| Edward George de Valera | 1 |
| Fianna Fáil-led Irish government under Bertie Ahern | 1 |
| Sinéad de Valera | 1 |
| de Valera | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T632185 — 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: Éamon de Valera Context triple: [Irish Civil War, commander, Éamon de Valera]
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A.
Cipriano de Valera
Cipriano de Valera was a 16th-century Spanish Protestant theologian and Bible translator best known for revising the Spanish Bible that became part of the influential Reina-Valera version.
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B.
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave was a Canadian military officer and diplomat best known for representing Canada at the formal Japanese surrender ceremony that ended World War II in the Pacific.
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C.
Seán MacBride
Seán MacBride was an Irish statesman, former IRA chief of staff, and prominent human rights advocate who co-founded Amnesty International and received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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D.
Donal McLaughlin
Donal McLaughlin was an American architect and industrial designer best known for creating the iconic emblem of the United Nations.
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E.
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, was a 17th-century Irish nobleman and military leader noted for his shifting allegiances and controversial role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
- 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: Éamon de Valera Target entity description: Éamon de Valera was a dominant 20th-century Irish political leader and statesman who helped shape modern Ireland as a revolutionary, long-serving Taoiseach, and later President.
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A.
Cipriano de Valera
Cipriano de Valera was a 16th-century Spanish Protestant theologian and Bible translator best known for revising the Spanish Bible that became part of the influential Reina-Valera version.
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B.
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave was a Canadian military officer and diplomat best known for representing Canada at the formal Japanese surrender ceremony that ended World War II in the Pacific.
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C.
Seán MacBride
Seán MacBride was an Irish statesman, former IRA chief of staff, and prominent human rights advocate who co-founded Amnesty International and received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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D.
Donal McLaughlin
Donal McLaughlin was an American architect and industrial designer best known for creating the iconic emblem of the United Nations.
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E.
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, was a 17th-century Irish nobleman and military leader noted for his shifting allegiances and controversial role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish politician
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head of government ⓘ head of state ⓘ human ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| birthName |
Éamon de Valera
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Edward George de Valera
|
| burialPlace |
Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
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surface form:
Glasnevin Cemetery
|
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ireland
ⓘ
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1882-10-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1975-08-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Blackrock College
ⓘ
Royal University of Ireland ⓘ |
| familyName |
Éamon de Valera
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
de Valera
|
| founded | Fianna Fáil ⓘ |
| givenName | Éamon ⓘ |
| movement | Irish republicanism ⓘ |
| name | Éamon de Valera self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableWork | role in drafting the 1937 Constitution of Ireland (Bunreacht na hÉireann) ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 7 ⓘ |
| occupation |
mathematician
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politician ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| officeEnd |
President of Ireland 1973-06-24
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Taoiseach 1948-02-18 ⓘ Taoiseach 1954-06-02 ⓘ Taoiseach 1959-06-23 ⓘ |
| officeStart |
President of Ireland 1959-06-25
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Taoiseach 1937-12-29 ⓘ Taoiseach 1951-06-13 ⓘ Taoiseach 1957-03-20 ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Easter Rising
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Irish Civil War ⓘ Irish War of Independence ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York City
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Dublin
ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Fianna Fáil ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chancellor of the National University of Ireland
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President of Dáil Éireann ⓘ President of Ireland ⓘ President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State ⓘ Taoiseach of Ireland ⓘ
surface form:
Taoiseach
Teachta Dála ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Áras an Uachtaráin ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Éamon de Valera
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Sinéad de Valera
|
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: Éamon de Valera Description of subject: Éamon de Valera was a dominant 20th-century Irish political leader and statesman who helped shape modern Ireland as a revolutionary, long-serving Taoiseach, and later President.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eamon de Valera
this entity surface form:
Fianna Fáil-led Irish government under Bertie Ahern
this entity surface form:
Edward George de Valera
this entity surface form:
de Valera
this entity surface form:
Sinéad de Valera
subject surface form:
Glasnevin Cemetery