Seán
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Seán is the Irish form of the given name John, commonly used as a male first name in Ireland.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seán canonical | 39 |
| Seána | 2 |
| Sean (English/Irish) | 1 |
| Seann | 1 |
| Seán (Irish) | 1 |
| Seánán | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T733649 — 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: Seán Context triple: [Jack, hasCognate, Seán]
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A.
Seamus
Seamus is the Irish form of the given name James, commonly used for boys in Ireland and among the Irish diaspora.
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B.
Mac Giolla Phádraig
Mac Giolla Phádraig is an Irish Gaelic surname historically associated with a prominent medieval ruling family, later often anglicized as Fitzpatrick.
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C.
Brendan
Brendan is a masculine given name of Irish origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Seán Lester
Seán Lester was an Irish diplomat best known for serving as the last Secretary-General of the League of Nations during its final years before the transition to the United Nations.
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E.
Pat Moran
Pat Moran was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball manager and former catcher best known for leading teams like the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds, including guiding the Reds to a controversial 1919 World Series championship.
- 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: Seán Target entity description: Seán is the Irish form of the given name John, commonly used as a male first name in Ireland.
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A.
Seamus
Seamus is the Irish form of the given name James, commonly used for boys in Ireland and among the Irish diaspora.
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B.
Mac Giolla Phádraig
Mac Giolla Phádraig is an Irish Gaelic surname historically associated with a prominent medieval ruling family, later often anglicized as Fitzpatrick.
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C.
Brendan
Brendan is a masculine given name of Irish origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Seán Lester
Seán Lester was an Irish diplomat best known for serving as the last Secretary-General of the League of Nations during its final years before the transition to the United Nations.
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E.
Pat Moran
Pat Moran was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball manager and former catcher best known for leading teams like the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds, including guiding the Reds to a controversial 1919 World Series championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| accentMarkIndicates | long vowel sound in á ⓘ |
| category |
Irish-language masculine given names
ⓘ
Masculine given names ⓘ |
| commonInCentury |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| containsLetter |
S
ⓘ
e ⓘ n ⓘ á ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Hebrew Yochanan
ⓘ
Latin Iohannes ⓘ
linked to:
Ioan
Old French Jehan ⓘ |
| equivalentNameInEnglish | John ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasAnglicisedForm | Sean ⓘ |
| hasDiacritic | síneadh fada ⓘ |
| hasFeminineForm |
Seána
ⓘ
linked to:
Seán
|
| hasVariant |
Seaghan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ciarán
Sean ⓘ Seón ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| meaning | God is gracious ⓘ |
| nameDayTraditionLinkedTo | Saint John ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| shortFormOf |
Seánán
ⓘ
linked to:
Seán
|
| usageRegion | Ireland ⓘ |
| usedByCommunity |
Irish diaspora
ⓘ
Irish speakers ⓘ |
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: Seán Description of subject: Seán is the Irish form of the given name John, commonly used as a male first name in Ireland.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Seán
linked to: Seán
linked to: Seán
linked to: Seán
linked to: Seán
linked to: Seán
subject linked to:
John (given name)
subject linked to:
Seán MacKeon
subject linked to:
John Joseph McKeon