O'Mahony
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O'Mahony is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin historically associated with a prominent Munster clan.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10937636 — 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'Mahony Context triple: [Peter O'Mahony, familyName, O'Mahony]
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A.
Ronan Raftery
Ronan Raftery is an Irish actor known for his roles in films such as Mortal Engines and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, as well as various stage and television productions.
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B.
Greg Tiernan
Greg Tiernan is an Irish-Canadian animator and film director best known for co-directing the animated features "Sausage Party" and the 2019 adaptation of "The Addams Family."
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C.
Ronan O'Gara
Ronan O'Gara is a former Irish rugby union fly-half and captain renowned for his long, successful career with Munster and Ireland, and later as a professional coach in France.
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D.
Lorcan O'Herlihy
Lorcan O'Herlihy is an Irish-born American architect known for his innovative, socially engaged urban housing and cultural projects, particularly in Los Angeles.
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E.
Seamus McGarvey
Seamus McGarvey is an acclaimed Irish cinematographer known for his visually striking work on major films such as Atonement, Avengers Assemble, and Godzilla (2014).
- 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'Mahony Target entity description: O'Mahony is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin historically associated with a prominent Munster clan.
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A.
Ronan Raftery
Ronan Raftery is an Irish actor known for his roles in films such as Mortal Engines and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, as well as various stage and television productions.
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B.
Greg Tiernan
Greg Tiernan is an Irish-Canadian animator and film director best known for co-directing the animated features "Sausage Party" and the 2019 adaptation of "The Addams Family."
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C.
Ronan O'Gara
Ronan O'Gara is a former Irish rugby union fly-half and captain renowned for his long, successful career with Munster and Ireland, and later as a professional coach in France.
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D.
Lorcan O'Herlihy
Lorcan O'Herlihy is an Irish-born American architect known for his innovative, socially engaged urban housing and cultural projects, particularly in Los Angeles.
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E.
Seamus McGarvey
Seamus McGarvey is an acclaimed Irish cinematographer known for his visually striking work on major films such as Atonement, Avengers Assemble, and Godzilla (2014).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish surname
ⓘ
family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithClan | O'Mahony clan ⓘ |
| associatedWithCounty | County Cork ⓘ |
| associatedWithProvince | Munster ⓘ |
| belongsToSurnameCategory |
Anglicised Irish-language surnames
ⓘ
patronymic surnames ⓘ surnames of Irish origin ⓘ |
| derivesFromGivenName | Mathghamhain ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin | Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Gaelic
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasOriginalForm | Ó Mathghamhna ⓘ |
| hasRegionOfOrigin |
Ireland
ⓘ
Munster ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Mahoney
ⓘ
Mahony ⓘ O Mahoney ⓘ
linked to:
O Mahony
O Mahony ⓘ O'Mahoney ⓘ
linked to:
O Mahony
O’Mahony ⓘ
linked to:
O'Mahony
|
| historicallyBorneBy | Munster nobility ⓘ |
| isAnglicisationOf |
Ó Mahúna
ⓘ
Ó Mathghamhna ⓘ
linked to:
Mac Mathghamhna
|
| meaning | descendant of Mathghamhain ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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'Mahony Description of subject: O'Mahony is an Irish surname of Gaelic origin historically associated with a prominent Munster clan.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: O'Mahony