O'Sheridan
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O'Sheridan is a variant form of the Irish surname Sheridan, typically reflecting Gaelic patronymic naming traditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| O'Sheridan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10403407 — 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: O'Sheridan Context triple: [Sheridan, hasVariant, O'Sheridan]
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A.
O'Herlihy
O'Herlihy is an Irish surname associated with figures in film, television, and the arts.
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B.
O'Byrne
O'Byrne is an Irish surname, a variant of Byrne, traditionally associated with Gaelic families from County Wicklow and surrounding regions.
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C.
O’Donoghue
O’Donoghue is an Irish surname historically associated with several Gaelic families and clans, particularly in County Kerry and surrounding regions.
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D.
O'Cullen
O'Cullen is an Irish surname, a variant of Cullen, typically associated with Gaelic family lineages.
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E.
O'Nolan
O'Nolan is an Irish surname, often associated with notable literary and historical figures from Ireland.
- 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: O'Sheridan Target entity description: O'Sheridan is a variant form of the Irish surname Sheridan, typically reflecting Gaelic patronymic naming traditions.
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A.
O'Herlihy
O'Herlihy is an Irish surname associated with figures in film, television, and the arts.
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B.
O'Byrne
O'Byrne is an Irish surname, a variant of Byrne, traditionally associated with Gaelic families from County Wicklow and surrounding regions.
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C.
O’Donoghue
O’Donoghue is an Irish surname historically associated with several Gaelic families and clans, particularly in County Kerry and surrounding regions.
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D.
O'Cullen
O'Cullen is an Irish surname, a variant of Cullen, typically associated with Gaelic family lineages.
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E.
O'Nolan
O'Nolan is an Irish surname, often associated with notable literary and historical figures from Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| followsNamingTradition | Gaelic patronymic naming tradition ⓘ |
| hasCategory | Anglicised Irish-language surname ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
O'
ⓘ
Sheridan ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | Irish diaspora ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalOrigin | Ó Sirideáin ⓘ |
| hasGenderAssociation | gender-neutral surname ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalOriginPeriod | medieval Ireland ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasNameType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| hasOrthographicFeature | contains apostrophe ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasUsageRegion |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| isDerivedFrom | Gaelic personal name Sirideán ⓘ |
| isVariantOf | Sheridan ⓘ |
| meaningOfPrefix | descendant of ⓘ |
| sharesEtymologyWith |
O Sheridan
ⓘ
linked to:
MacAuliffe
Sheridan ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
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: O'Sheridan Description of subject: O'Sheridan is a variant form of the Irish surname Sheridan, typically reflecting Gaelic patronymic naming traditions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.