Yates
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Yates is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across literature, politics, sports, and other fields.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2238977 — 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: Yates Context triple: [Richard Yates, familyName, Yates]
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Sandys
Sandys is the surname of Frederic Sandys, a 19th-century British painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
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Hartley
Hartley is a small census-designated community located in Solano County, California.
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Hartley
Hartley is an English-language surname of Old English origin, commonly associated with various notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Colsterworth
Colsterworth is a village in Lincolnshire, England, best known for its proximity to Woolsthorpe Manor, the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton.
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E.
Bamford
Bamford is a village in Derbyshire, England, situated in the Peak District and known for its proximity to Ladybower Reservoir and scenic moorland landscapes.
- 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: Yates Target entity description: Yates is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across literature, politics, sports, and other fields.
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A.
Sandys
Sandys is the surname of Frederic Sandys, a 19th-century British painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
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B.
Hartley
Hartley is a small census-designated community located in Solano County, California.
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C.
Hartley
Hartley is an English-language surname of Old English origin, commonly associated with various notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Colsterworth
Colsterworth is a village in Lincolnshire, England, best known for its proximity to Woolsthorpe Manor, the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton.
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E.
Bamford
Bamford is a village in Derbyshire, England, situated in the Peak District and known for its proximity to Ladybower Reservoir and scenic moorland landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Yates Description of subject: Yates is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across literature, politics, sports, and other fields.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yates
linked to: Yates