Earls of Upper Ossory
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The Earls of Upper Ossory were an Irish noble family whose title, created in the Peerage of Ireland in the 16th century, was held by descendants of the medieval kings of Osraige and associated with lands in what is now County Laois.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Earls of Upper Ossory canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9448972 — 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: Earls of Upper Ossory Context triple: [Kings of Osraige, hasGenealogicalDescendants, Earls of Upper Ossory]
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Earls of Antrim
The Earls of Antrim are an Irish noble title in the Peerage of Ireland historically held by the MacDonnell family, prominent landowners and political figures in County Antrim.
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B.
Earl of Ormond
The Earl of Ormond is a historic Irish peerage title long associated with the powerful Butler family, prominent in Anglo-Irish politics and society from the late Middle Ages onward.
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C.
Earl of Tipperary
The Earl of Tipperary is a historic Irish peerage title traditionally associated with British royalty, notably held as a subsidiary title by Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge.
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D.
Earl of Dublin
The Earl of Dublin was a courtesy title historically associated with British royalty, notably borne by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III.
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E.
Earl of Waterford
The Earl of Waterford is an Irish peerage title historically associated with prominent Anglo-Norman nobility, including the powerful Talbot family.
- 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: Earls of Upper Ossory Target entity description: The Earls of Upper Ossory were an Irish noble family whose title, created in the Peerage of Ireland in the 16th century, was held by descendants of the medieval kings of Osraige and associated with lands in what is now County Laois.
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A.
Earls of Antrim
The Earls of Antrim are an Irish noble title in the Peerage of Ireland historically held by the MacDonnell family, prominent landowners and political figures in County Antrim.
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B.
Earl of Ormond
The Earl of Ormond is a historic Irish peerage title long associated with the powerful Butler family, prominent in Anglo-Irish politics and society from the late Middle Ages onward.
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C.
Earl of Tipperary
The Earl of Tipperary is a historic Irish peerage title traditionally associated with British royalty, notably held as a subsidiary title by Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge.
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D.
Earl of Dublin
The Earl of Dublin was a courtesy title historically associated with British royalty, notably borne by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III.
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E.
Earl of Waterford
The Earl of Waterford is an Irish peerage title historically associated with prominent Anglo-Norman nobility, including the powerful Talbot family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish noble family
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extinct earldom ⓘ title in the Peerage of Ireland ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
County Laois
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Osraige ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Ireland ⓘ |
| geographicScope | Upper Ossory ⓘ |
| hasAncestralOrigin | medieval kings of Osraige ⓘ |
| heldBy | descendants of the medieval kings of Osraige ⓘ |
| historicalTerritory | Ossory ⓘ |
| landAssociatedWith |
County Laois
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Upper Ossory ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay |
County Laois
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Republic of Ireland ⓘ |
| monarchicalContext |
British monarchy
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Irish monarchy ⓘ |
| nobleFamilyType | Irish nobility ⓘ |
| nobleHouseOrigin | Gaelic Irish dynasty of Osraige ⓘ |
| nobleTitleType | earldom ⓘ |
| peerage | Peerage of Ireland ⓘ |
| region | Ireland ⓘ |
| status | extinct title ⓘ |
| titleCreatedInCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| titleRank | Earl ⓘ |
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: Earls of Upper Ossory Description of subject: The Earls of Upper Ossory were an Irish noble family whose title, created in the Peerage of Ireland in the 16th century, was held by descendants of the medieval kings of Osraige and associated with lands in what is now County Laois.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.