Herlihy
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Herlihy is an Irish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including writers, scholars, and public figures.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10983135 — 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: Herlihy Context triple: [James Leo Herlihy, familyName, Herlihy]
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A.
Kelleher
Kelleher is a surname most notably associated with Herb Kelleher, the co-founder and longtime CEO of Southwest Airlines.
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B.
Dinneen
Dinneen is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
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C.
O'Herlihy
O'Herlihy is an Irish surname associated with figures in film, television, and the arts.
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D.
O’Halloran
O’Halloran is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals, including artists, musicians, and public figures.
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E.
Leahey
Leahey is a surname variant of Leahy, an Irish family name of Gaelic origin.
- 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: Herlihy Target entity description: Herlihy is an Irish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including writers, scholars, and public figures.
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A.
Kelleher
Kelleher is a surname most notably associated with Herb Kelleher, the co-founder and longtime CEO of Southwest Airlines.
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B.
Dinneen
Dinneen is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
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C.
O'Herlihy
O'Herlihy is an Irish surname associated with figures in film, television, and the arts.
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D.
O’Halloran
O’Halloran is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals, including artists, musicians, and public figures.
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E.
Leahey
Leahey is a surname variant of Leahy, an Irish family name of Gaelic origin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
Anglicised Irish-language surnames
ⓘ
Irish-language surnames ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ireland
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Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-05-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1991-02-21 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Russian history
ⓘ
concurrent computing ⓘ distributed computing ⓘ medieval history ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Gaelic
ⓘ
linked to:
Goidelic
Irish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
David Herlihy
ⓘ
Dermot O’Herlihy ⓘ Gavan Herlihy ⓘ John Herlihy ⓘ Maurice Herlihy ⓘ Mick Herlihy ⓘ Patricia Herlihy ⓘ Tim Herlihy ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
O Herlihy
ⓘ
O’Herlihy ⓘ
linked to:
O'Herlihy
|
| notableWork |
Happy Gilmore
ⓘ
The Wedding Singer ⓘ |
| occupation |
Gaelic footballer
ⓘ
Roman Catholic bishop ⓘ business executive ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ film producer ⓘ historian ⓘ historian ⓘ politician ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| 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: Herlihy Description of subject: Herlihy is an Irish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including writers, scholars, and public figures.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Herlihy