MacSwiney
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MacSwiney is an Irish surname most notably associated with Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork and Irish republican martyr who died on hunger strike in 1920.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MacSwiney canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11088458 — 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: MacSwiney Context triple: [Terence MacSwiney, familyName, MacSwiney]
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A.
Scullin
Scullin is a residential suburb in the Belconnen district of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
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B.
Alice Lalor
Alice Lalor was an Irish-born Catholic laywoman and educator who founded the Georgetown Visitation Academy in Washington, D.C., helping establish one of the earliest Catholic girls' schools in the United States.
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C.
MacCarthy
MacCarthy is an Irish surname historically associated with a prominent Gaelic dynasty from County Cork and Kerry.
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D.
John Mitchel
John Mitchel was a 19th-century Irish nationalist and political activist known for his vehement advocacy of Irish independence from British rule.
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E.
O'Herlihy
O'Herlihy is an Irish surname associated with figures in film, television, and the arts.
- 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: MacSwiney Target entity description: MacSwiney is an Irish surname most notably associated with Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork and Irish republican martyr who died on hunger strike in 1920.
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A.
Scullin
Scullin is a residential suburb in the Belconnen district of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
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B.
Alice Lalor
Alice Lalor was an Irish-born Catholic laywoman and educator who founded the Georgetown Visitation Academy in Washington, D.C., helping establish one of the earliest Catholic girls' schools in the United States.
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C.
MacCarthy
MacCarthy is an Irish surname historically associated with a prominent Gaelic dynasty from County Cork and Kerry.
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D.
John Mitchel
John Mitchel was a 19th-century Irish nationalist and political activist known for his vehement advocacy of Irish independence from British rule.
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E.
O'Herlihy
O'Herlihy is an Irish surname associated with figures in film, television, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish politician
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Irish politician ⓘ Irish republican ⓘ Irish republican ⓘ Irish surname ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ playwright ⓘ surname ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | hunger strike ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ireland
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Ireland ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1872-03-27
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1879-03-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath |
1920-10-25
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1942-03-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Christian Brothers College, Cork NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName |
MacSwiney
NERFINISHED
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MacSwiney NERFINISHED ⓘ Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Terence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Terence MacSwiney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Mac Swiney
NERFINISHED
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McSwiney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith |
Cork
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Irish republicanism ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Irish Republican Army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sinn Féin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinn Féin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Irish independence movement ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Principles of Freedom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Revolutionist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cork NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Brixton Prison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Lord Mayor of Cork NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sibling | Mary MacSwiney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Muriel Murphy
NERFINISHED
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Terence MacSwiney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1920 (as Lord Mayor of Cork) ⓘ |
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: MacSwiney Description of subject: MacSwiney is an Irish surname most notably associated with Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork and Irish republican martyr who died on hunger strike in 1920.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.