Bridey Murphy
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Bridey Murphy is the purported 19th-century Irish woman whose alleged past-life memories, recalled under hypnosis by an American housewife, sparked a famous mid-20th-century case and popular interest in reincarnation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bridey Murphy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10813337 — 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: Bridey Murphy Context triple: [The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956 film), titleCharacter, Bridey Murphy]
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A.
Bríd Meaney
Bríd Meaney is the daughter of Irish actor Colm Meaney, known for his roles in "Star Trek" and numerous film and television productions.
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B.
Aoife O'Carroll
Aoife O'Carroll is a fictional character played by Irish actress Dominique McElligott, best known from her work in film and television dramas.
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C.
Bairbre Dowling
Bairbre Dowling was an Irish actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Dead" and "Zardoz."
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D.
Orla Fitzgerald
Orla Fitzgerald is an Irish actress best known for her role in the historical drama film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley."
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E.
Siobhan Walsh
Siobhan Walsh is an Irish humanitarian and development leader known for her work with international aid organizations and efforts to combat global poverty and hunger.
- 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: Bridey Murphy Target entity description: Bridey Murphy is the purported 19th-century Irish woman whose alleged past-life memories, recalled under hypnosis by an American housewife, sparked a famous mid-20th-century case and popular interest in reincarnation.
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A.
Bríd Meaney
Bríd Meaney is the daughter of Irish actor Colm Meaney, known for his roles in "Star Trek" and numerous film and television productions.
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B.
Aoife O'Carroll
Aoife O'Carroll is a fictional character played by Irish actress Dominique McElligott, best known from her work in film and television dramas.
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C.
Bairbre Dowling
Bairbre Dowling was an Irish actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Dead" and "Zardoz."
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D.
Orla Fitzgerald
Orla Fitzgerald is an Irish actress best known for her role in the historical drama film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley."
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E.
Siobhan Walsh
Siobhan Walsh is an Irish humanitarian and development leader known for her work with international aid organizations and efforts to combat global poverty and hunger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Bridey Murphy Description of subject: Bridey Murphy is the purported 19th-century Irish woman whose alleged past-life memories, recalled under hypnosis by an American housewife, sparked a famous mid-20th-century case and popular interest in reincarnation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Search for Bridey Murphy (book)