Bates
E177426
Bates is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as politics, civil rights, literature, and entertainment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bates canonical | 40 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1560860 — 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: Bates Context triple: [Daisy Bates, familyName, Bates]
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A.
Harvey
Harvey is a classic 1950 American comedy film in which James Stewart plays a genial man whose best friend is an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit.
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B.
Harvey
Harvey is the middle name of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
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Harvey
Harvey is a botanist and taxonomist known for formally describing the plant genus Romneya.
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D.
Bates Motel
Bates Motel is a contemporary psychological horror–drama television series that serves as a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho, exploring the twisted relationship between Norman Bates and his mother, Norma.
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E.
Loomis
Loomis is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as science, law, 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: Bates Target entity description: Bates is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as politics, civil rights, literature, and entertainment.
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A.
Harvey
Harvey is a classic 1950 American comedy film in which James Stewart plays a genial man whose best friend is an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit.
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B.
Harvey
Harvey is the middle name of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
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C.
Harvey
Harvey is a botanist and taxonomist known for formally describing the plant genus Romneya.
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D.
Bates Motel
Bates Motel is a contemporary psychological horror–drama television series that serves as a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho, exploring the twisted relationship between Norman Bates and his mother, Norma.
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E.
Loomis
Loomis is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as science, law, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Bates Description of subject: Bates is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as politics, civil rights, literature, and entertainment.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bates College (in Lewiston)
subject linked to:
Miss Bates in Emma
subject linked to:
Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive (Little Rock street)
subject linked to:
Daisy Bates (Australian journalist and anthropologist)
subject linked to:
Michael Bates (actor)
subject linked to:
William Bates (philosopher)
subject linked to:
Zoe Bates (fictional character)
subject linked to:
Lucius Christopher