Richard Yates
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Richard Yates was an American politician who served as the Civil War–era governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. senator.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Yates canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T385747 — 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: Richard Yates Context triple: [Oak Ridge Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Richard Yates]
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A.
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer was a prominent American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for works like "The Naked and the Dead" and for co-founding The Village Voice.
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B.
Truman Capote
Truman Capote was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist best known for works like "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's," which helped pioneer the true crime genre and cemented his status as a major literary figure of the 20th century.
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C.
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo is a critically acclaimed American novelist known for his postmodern works that explore themes of consumerism, technology, and the anxieties of contemporary life, including novels such as "White Noise" and "Underworld."
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D.
John Irving
John Irving is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for works such as "The World According to Garp," "The Cider House Rules," and "A Prayer for Owen Meany," which often blend dark humor with complex family dramas.
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E.
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson was an American author renowned for her unsettling works of psychological horror and darkly satirical fiction, including the classic short story "The Lottery" and the novel "The Haunting of Hill House."
- 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: Richard Yates Target entity description: Richard Yates was an American politician who served as the Civil War–era governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. senator.
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A.
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer was a prominent American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for works like "The Naked and the Dead" and for co-founding The Village Voice.
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B.
Truman Capote
Truman Capote was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist best known for works like "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's," which helped pioneer the true crime genre and cemented his status as a major literary figure of the 20th century.
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C.
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo is a critically acclaimed American novelist known for his postmodern works that explore themes of consumerism, technology, and the anxieties of contemporary life, including novels such as "White Noise" and "Underworld."
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D.
John Irving
John Irving is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for works such as "The World According to Garp," "The Cider House Rules," and "A Prayer for Owen Meany," which often blend dark humor with complex family dramas.
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E.
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson was an American author renowned for her unsettling works of psychological horror and darkly satirical fiction, including the classic short story "The Lottery" and the novel "The Haunting of Hill House."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Governor of Illinois
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United States senator ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Yates ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | politics ⓘ |
| genre | political leadership ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| notableFor |
serving as Civil War–era governor of Illinois
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serving as United States senator from Illinois ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of Illinois during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Civil War (as wartime governor)
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linked to:
American Civil War
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| positionHeld |
Governor of Illinois
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United States senator ⓘ member of the Illinois House of Representatives ⓘ |
| residence |
Illinois
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Springfield, Illinois ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Illinois ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Springfield, Illinois
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Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Richard Yates Description of subject: Richard Yates was an American politician who served as the Civil War–era governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. senator.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.