Paddy Cleary
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Paddy Cleary is a central figure in Colleen McCullough's novel "The Thorn Birds," portrayed as the hardworking Irish patriarch of the Cleary family who emigrates to Australia in search of a better life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paddy Cleary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12390912 — 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: Paddy Cleary Context triple: [The Thorn Birds, character, Paddy Cleary]
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A.
Gene Keady
Gene Keady is a highly respected American college basketball coach best known for his long, successful tenure leading the Purdue Boilermakers.
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B.
Dan Rooney
Dan Rooney was a prominent American businessman and longtime owner and president of the Pittsburgh Steelers who also served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.
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C.
Tommy Kelly
Tommy Kelly was an American child actor best known for playing the title role in the 1938 film adaptation of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
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D.
Joe Mackins
Joe Mackins is a supporting character in the period drama film "Albert Nobbs," involved in the social and romantic tensions surrounding the title character in 19th-century Dublin.
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E.
Donald Malarkey
Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
- 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: Paddy Cleary Target entity description: Paddy Cleary is a central figure in Colleen McCullough's novel "The Thorn Birds," portrayed as the hardworking Irish patriarch of the Cleary family who emigrates to Australia in search of a better life.
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A.
Gene Keady
Gene Keady is a highly respected American college basketball coach best known for his long, successful tenure leading the Purdue Boilermakers.
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B.
Dan Rooney
Dan Rooney was a prominent American businessman and longtime owner and president of the Pittsburgh Steelers who also served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.
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C.
Tommy Kelly
Tommy Kelly was an American child actor best known for playing the title role in the 1938 film adaptation of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
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D.
Joe Mackins
Joe Mackins is a supporting character in the period drama film "Albert Nobbs," involved in the social and romantic tensions surrounding the title character in 19th-century Dublin.
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E.
Donald Malarkey
Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.