Thomas Gonne
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Thomas Gonne was a British army officer and businessman best known as the father of Irish revolutionary and muse Maud Gonne.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Gonne canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10767899 — 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: Thomas Gonne Context triple: [Maud Gonne, father, Thomas Gonne]
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A.
Seán Mac Diarmada
Seán Mac Diarmada was an Irish revolutionary and key organizer of the 1916 Easter Rising who played a central role in planning the insurrection against British rule and was executed for his involvement.
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B.
T. F. O'Rahilly
T. F. O'Rahilly was an influential Irish linguist and Celtic scholar known for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Irish language and other Celtic tongues.
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C.
James Stephens
James Stephens is a notable Irish writer and poet best known for his works of fantasy and satire, including "The Crock of Gold" and "The Charwoman's Daughter."
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D.
James Stephens
James Stephens is an American actor best known for his role as law student James T. Hart in the television adaptation of "The Paper Chase."
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E.
James Stephens
James Stephens was a 19th-century Irish revolutionary leader and Fenian organizer who played a central role in the Irish nationalist movement for independence from British rule.
- 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: Thomas Gonne Target entity description: Thomas Gonne was a British army officer and businessman best known as the father of Irish revolutionary and muse Maud Gonne.
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A.
Seán Mac Diarmada
Seán Mac Diarmada was an Irish revolutionary and key organizer of the 1916 Easter Rising who played a central role in planning the insurrection against British rule and was executed for his involvement.
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B.
T. F. O'Rahilly
T. F. O'Rahilly was an influential Irish linguist and Celtic scholar known for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Irish language and other Celtic tongues.
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C.
James Stephens
James Stephens is a notable Irish writer and poet best known for his works of fantasy and satire, including "The Crock of Gold" and "The Charwoman's Daughter."
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D.
James Stephens
James Stephens is an American actor best known for his role as law student James T. Hart in the television adaptation of "The Paper Chase."
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E.
James Stephens
James Stephens was a 19th-century Irish revolutionary leader and Fenian organizer who played a central role in the Irish nationalist movement for independence from British rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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businessman ⓘ person ⓘ |
| child | Maud Gonne ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | British Army ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Protestantism ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Maud Gonne ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Maud Gonne ⓘ |
| occupation |
army officer
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businessman ⓘ |
| residence |
England
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Ireland ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Edith Frith Cook ⓘ |
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: Thomas Gonne Description of subject: Thomas Gonne was a British army officer and businessman best known as the father of Irish revolutionary and muse Maud Gonne.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.