Alec Finn
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Alec Finn was an influential Irish traditional musician best known as the bouzouki and guitar player and co-founder of the pioneering folk group De Dannan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alec Finn canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9913854 — 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: Alec Finn Context triple: [De Dannan, associatedAct, Alec Finn]
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A.
Trevor Griffiths
Trevor Griffiths is a British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically charged works for stage and screen, including contributions to the film "Reds."
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B.
Alec Kellaway
Alec Kellaway was an Australian actor known for his work in early 20th-century theatre and film, and as the brother of character actor Cecil Kellaway.
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C.
Antony Hegarty
Antony Hegarty, better known as Anohni, is an English-born singer, composer, and visual artist acclaimed for her haunting, androgynous vocals and emotionally charged work with the band Antony and the Johnsons.
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D.
Duncan MacMillan
Duncan MacMillan is an American businessman best known as one of the co-founders of the global financial information and media company Bloomberg L.P.
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E.
Duncan MacMillan
Duncan MacMillan is an American businessman best known as a co-founder of Interactive Data Corporation, a major provider of financial market data and analytics.
- 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: Alec Finn Target entity description: Alec Finn was an influential Irish traditional musician best known as the bouzouki and guitar player and co-founder of the pioneering folk group De Dannan.
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A.
Trevor Griffiths
Trevor Griffiths is a British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically charged works for stage and screen, including contributions to the film "Reds."
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B.
Alec Kellaway
Alec Kellaway was an Australian actor known for his work in early 20th-century theatre and film, and as the brother of character actor Cecil Kellaway.
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C.
Antony Hegarty
Antony Hegarty, better known as Anohni, is an English-born singer, composer, and visual artist acclaimed for her haunting, androgynous vocals and emotionally charged work with the band Antony and the Johnsons.
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D.
Duncan MacMillan
Duncan MacMillan is an American businessman best known as a co-founder of Interactive Data Corporation, a major provider of financial market data and analytics.
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E.
Duncan MacMillan
Duncan MacMillan is an American businessman best known as one of the co-founders of the global financial information and media company Bloomberg L.P.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish traditional musician
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human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2018 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Aidan Coffey
NERFINISHED
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Colm Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ De Dannan NERFINISHED ⓘ Dolores Keane NERFINISHED ⓘ Frankie Gavin NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Ringo McDonagh NERFINISHED ⓘ Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Maura O'Connell NERFINISHED ⓘ Mick Hanly NERFINISHED ⓘ Mick Lally NERFINISHED ⓘ Seán Tyrrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Alexander J. Phinn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | De Dannan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-06-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-09-16 ⓘ |
| genre | Irish traditional music ⓘ |
| influenced | Irish bouzouki accompaniment style ⓘ |
| instrument |
banjo
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bodhrán ⓘ bouzouki ⓘ guitar ⓘ mandolin ⓘ |
| knownFor | innovative use of Greek bouzouki in Irish traditional music ⓘ |
| memberOf | De Dannan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Alec Finn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "Ballroom" with De Dannan
NERFINISHED
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album "Hibernian Rhapsody" with De Dannan NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Irlande" with De Dannan ⓘ album "Mist Covered Mountain" with De Dannan NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Selected Jigs Reels and Songs" with De Dannan NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Song for Ireland" with De Dannan NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Star-Spangled Molly" with De Dannan NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Traditional Music of Ireland" with Frankie Gavin NERFINISHED ⓘ co-founder of De Dannan ⓘ duo album "Frankie Gavin & Alec Finn" ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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record producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Yarm, North Yorkshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Claddagh Records
NERFINISHED
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Gael-Linn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
counter-melodic accompaniment
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dorian-mode accompaniment ⓘ |
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: Alec Finn Description of subject: Alec Finn was an influential Irish traditional musician best known as the bouzouki and guitar player and co-founder of the pioneering folk group De Dannan.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.