Joe Yule
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Joe Yule was a Scottish-born American vaudeville and film comedian best known as the father of actor Mickey Rooney.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joe Yule canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T201031 — 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: Joe Yule Context triple: [Mickey Rooney, parent, Joe Yule]
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A.
Joe Yule Jr.
Joe Yule Jr. is the birth name of American actor Mickey Rooney, a prolific Hollywood star known for his roles from the 1930s through the 1990s.
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B.
Ralph Coleman
Ralph Coleman was a prominent Oregon State University baseball coach whose legacy in the sport led to the university’s baseball stadium being named in his honor.
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C.
James Algar
James Algar was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his long career at Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on both animated features and nature documentaries.
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D.
Jo Johnson
Jo Johnson is a British Conservative politician and former Member of Parliament who has held ministerial roles, particularly in higher education and transport, and is the younger brother of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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E.
Phil Smith
Phil Smith was an American professional basketball player best known as a two-time NBA All-Star guard and key contributor to the Golden State Warriors’ 1975 championship team.
- 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: Joe Yule Target entity description: Joe Yule was a Scottish-born American vaudeville and film comedian best known as the father of actor Mickey Rooney.
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A.
Joe Yule Jr.
Joe Yule Jr. is the birth name of American actor Mickey Rooney, a prolific Hollywood star known for his roles from the 1930s through the 1990s.
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B.
Ralph Coleman
Ralph Coleman was a prominent Oregon State University baseball coach whose legacy in the sport led to the university’s baseball stadium being named in his honor.
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C.
James Algar
James Algar was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his long career at Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on both animated features and nature documentaries.
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D.
Jo Johnson
Jo Johnson is a British Conservative politician and former Member of Parliament who has held ministerial roles, particularly in higher education and transport, and is the younger brother of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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E.
Phil Smith
Phil Smith was an American professional basketball player best known as a two-time NBA All-Star guard and key contributor to the Golden State Warriors’ 1975 championship team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ person ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1892-04-30 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Glasgow
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Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| child | Mickey Rooney ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1950-03-30 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Yule ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Mickey Rooney ⓘ |
| fullName |
Ninnian Joseph Yule
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linked to:
Ninian Joseph Yule Jr.
|
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Ninnian ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Mickey Rooney ⓘ |
| notableWork | vaudeville ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Hollywood ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| relative | Mickey Rooney ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Nell Carter ⓘ |
| stageName | Joe Yule ⓘ |
| workedIn |
American film industry
ⓘ
linked to:
American cinema
vaudeville ⓘ |
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: Joe Yule Description of subject: Joe Yule was a Scottish-born American vaudeville and film comedian best known as the father of actor Mickey Rooney.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.