Lester
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Lester is the given name of Lester B. Pearson, the Canadian diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and 14th prime minister of Canada.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lester canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T280400 — 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: Lester Context triple: [Lester B. Pearson, givenName, Lester]
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A.
Leslie
Leslie is a small town in Fife, Scotland, situated near Glenrothes and known historically for its textile and papermaking industries.
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B.
Earl
An Earl is a noble rank in the British and some European peerage systems, historically positioned below a marquess and above a viscount.
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C.
Walter
Walter is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Gordon
Gordon is the middle name of the famed Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose full name is George Gordon Byron.
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E.
Tom Canty
Tom Canty is the impoverished London boy who swaps identities with Prince Edward in Mark Twain’s novel "The Prince and the Pauper," highlighting themes of class and social injustice.
- 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: Lester Target entity description: Lester is the given name of Lester B. Pearson, the Canadian diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and 14th prime minister of Canada.
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A.
Leslie
Leslie is a small town in Fife, Scotland, situated near Glenrothes and known historically for its textile and papermaking industries.
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B.
Earl
An Earl is a noble rank in the British and some European peerage systems, historically positioned below a marquess and above a viscount.
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C.
Walter
Walter is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Gordon
Gordon is the middle name of the famed Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose full name is George Gordon Byron.
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E.
Henry Lucas
Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
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human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Companion of the Order of Canada
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Nobel Peace Prize ⓘ Order of Merit ⓘ Pearson Medal of Peace (eponym) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
St John’s College, Oxford
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University of Toronto ⓘ |
| familyName | Pearson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Canadian politics
ⓘ
international relations ⓘ peacekeeping ⓘ |
| givenName | Lester ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Lester ⓘ |
| headOfGovernmentOf | Canada ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Liberal Party of Canada ⓘ |
| nameBearer | Lester B. Pearson ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Contributed to resolution of the 1956 Suez Crisis
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Helped establish modern UN peacekeeping operations ⓘ Oversaw adoption of the current Canadian flag ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Diplomatic efforts during the Suez Crisis
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Role in creation of United Nations peacekeeping forces ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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politician ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| officeContested | House of Commons of Canada seat ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chancellor of Carleton University
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Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada ⓘ Minister of External Affairs of Canada ⓘ Prime Minister of Canada ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedBy | Lester B. Pearson ⓘ |
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: Lester Description of subject: Lester is the given name of Lester B. Pearson, the Canadian diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and 14th prime minister of Canada.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.