Matthew O'Neill, 1st Baron Dungannon
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Matthew O'Neill, 1st Baron Dungannon, was a 16th-century Irish nobleman of the O'Neill dynasty whose contested legitimacy and succession claims played a key role in the turbulent politics of Tudor Ireland.
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| Matthew O'Neill, 1st Baron Dungannon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11895322 — 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: Matthew O'Neill, 1st Baron Dungannon Context triple: [Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, father, Matthew O'Neill, 1st Baron Dungannon]
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William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon
William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who served in the Irish Parliament and was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Duncannon.
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B.
Robert Dillon, 1st Baron Clonbrock
Robert Dillon, 1st Baron Clonbrock, was an 18th-century Irish peer and politician who founded the Clonbrock branch of the Dillon noble family.
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C.
Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon
Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon, was an 18th-century Anglo-Irish peer and politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons before being elevated to the peerage.
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D.
Luke Dillon, 2nd Baron Clonbrock
Luke Dillon, 2nd Baron Clonbrock, was an Irish peer and landowner who belonged to the Anglo-Irish aristocracy in the 19th century.
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E.
Lewis Boyle, 1st Viscount Kinalmeaky
Lewis Boyle, 1st Viscount Kinalmeaky was a 17th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman and soldier who was killed fighting for the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
- 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: Matthew O'Neill, 1st Baron Dungannon Target entity description: Matthew O'Neill, 1st Baron Dungannon, was a 16th-century Irish nobleman of the O'Neill dynasty whose contested legitimacy and succession claims played a key role in the turbulent politics of Tudor Ireland.
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A.
William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon
William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who served in the Irish Parliament and was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Duncannon.
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B.
Robert Dillon, 1st Baron Clonbrock
Robert Dillon, 1st Baron Clonbrock, was an 18th-century Irish peer and politician who founded the Clonbrock branch of the Dillon noble family.
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C.
Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon
Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon, was an 18th-century Anglo-Irish peer and politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons before being elevated to the peerage.
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D.
Luke Dillon, 2nd Baron Clonbrock
Luke Dillon, 2nd Baron Clonbrock, was an Irish peer and landowner who belonged to the Anglo-Irish aristocracy in the 19th century.
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E.
Lewis Boyle, 1st Viscount Kinalmeaky
Lewis Boyle, 1st Viscount Kinalmeaky was a 17th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman and soldier who was killed fighting for the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
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