Alfred Yeates
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Alfred Yeates was a civil engineer best known for designing London’s Southwark Bridge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alfred Yeates canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6275813 — 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: Alfred Yeates Context triple: [Southwark Bridge, designer, Alfred Yeates]
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A.
Alfred Terry
Alfred Terry was a U.S. Army general best known for his leadership on the Northern Plains during the Indian Wars, including a key role in the Great Sioux War of 1876.
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B.
Alfred Gough
Alfred Gough is an American screenwriter and producer best known as the co-creator of the television series Smallville and for his work on various film and TV projects.
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C.
Raymond Hatton
Raymond Hatton was an American character actor and silent film star known for his prolific career in early Hollywood cinema, often appearing in Westerns and comedies.
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D.
Walter Bidlake
Walter Bidlake is a fictional character in Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Point Counter Point," representing aspects of English intellectual and social life in the 1920s.
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E.
Henry Van Brunt
Henry Van Brunt was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for his influential role in shaping civic and institutional architecture across the United States.
- 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: Alfred Yeates Target entity description: Alfred Yeates was a civil engineer best known for designing London’s Southwark Bridge.
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A.
Alfred Terry
Alfred Terry was a U.S. Army general best known for his leadership on the Northern Plains during the Indian Wars, including a key role in the Great Sioux War of 1876.
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B.
Alfred Gough
Alfred Gough is an American screenwriter and producer best known as the co-creator of the television series Smallville and for his work on various film and TV projects.
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C.
Raymond Hatton
Raymond Hatton was an American character actor and silent film star known for his prolific career in early Hollywood cinema, often appearing in Westerns and comedies.
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D.
Walter Bidlake
Walter Bidlake is a fictional character in Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Point Counter Point," representing aspects of English intellectual and social life in the 1920s.
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E.
Henry Van Brunt
Henry Van Brunt was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for his influential role in shaping civic and institutional architecture across the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bridge
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civil engineer ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crosses | River Thames NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | designing Southwark Bridge ⓘ |
| location |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
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| notableWork | Southwark Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | civil engineer ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
|
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: Alfred Yeates Description of subject: Alfred Yeates was a civil engineer best known for designing London’s Southwark Bridge.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.