Lester
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Lester is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals, including the diplomat Seán Lester.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lester canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T336398 — 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: [Seán Lester, familyName, Lester]
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A.
Lester
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Leonard
Leonard is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries and borne by numerous notable figures in arts, sports, and public life.
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E.
Stringer Bell
Stringer Bell is a central character in the television series "The Wire," a calculating drug kingpin who studies business and economics to run his criminal organization like a legitimate enterprise.
- 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 a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals, including the diplomat Seán Lester.
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A.
Lester
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Leonard
Leonard is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries and borne by numerous notable figures in arts, sports, and public life.
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E.
Stringer Bell
Stringer Bell is a central character in the television series "The Wire," a calculating drug kingpin who studies business and economics to run his criminal organization like a legitimate enterprise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| familyName | Lester ⓘ |
| givenName | Seán ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Seán Lester ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English-language surname of Irish origin ⓘ |
| occupation | diplomat ⓘ |
| usedAs | surname in Ireland ⓘ |
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 a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals, including the diplomat Seán Lester.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.