Ralph Yearsley
E694534
Ralph Yearsley was a British-born character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous American movies during the 1920s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ralph Yearsley canonical | 2 |
| Osh Popham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7809277 — 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: Ralph Yearsley Context triple: [The Kid Brother, castMember, Ralph Yearsley]
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A.
Thomas Rainsborough
Thomas Rainsborough was a prominent English Civil War officer and leading Leveller figure known for advocating radical democratic reforms and greater political rights for common people.
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B.
Nicholas Bacon
Nicholas Bacon was a prominent 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I.
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C.
John Warham
John Warham was an early Puritan minister and colonial leader known for helping to found and pastor settlements in New England during the 17th century.
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D.
Edmund Bonner
Edmund Bonner was a 16th-century English bishop of London notorious for his zealous role in persecuting Protestants during the reign of Mary I.
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E.
Laurence Nowell
Laurence Nowell was a 16th-century English antiquary and scholar of Old English, best known for his pioneering work on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and early English history.
- 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: Ralph Yearsley Target entity description: Ralph Yearsley was a British-born character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous American movies during the 1920s.
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A.
Thomas Rainsborough
Thomas Rainsborough was a prominent English Civil War officer and leading Leveller figure known for advocating radical democratic reforms and greater political rights for common people.
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B.
Nicholas Bacon
Nicholas Bacon was a prominent 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I.
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C.
John Warham
John Warham was an early Puritan minister and colonial leader known for helping to found and pastor settlements in New England during the 17th century.
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D.
Edmund Bonner
Edmund Bonner was a 16th-century English bishop of London notorious for his zealous role in persecuting Protestants during the reign of Mary I.
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E.
Laurence Nowell
Laurence Nowell was a 16th-century English antiquary and scholar of Old English, best known for his pioneering work on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and early English history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
person ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | silent film era ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
| appearedIn | American movies ⓘ |
| artisticForm | motion picture ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| birthPlace | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | silent film era ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy films
ⓘ
drama films ⓘ |
| industry | Hollywood ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | silent film (no synchronized dialogue) ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | appearing in numerous American movies during the 1920s ⓘ |
| notableRoleType | supporting roles ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
character actor ⓘ |
| workedIn |
American cinema
ⓘ
film industry ⓘ |
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: Ralph Yearsley Description of subject: Ralph Yearsley was a British-born character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous American movies during the 1920s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ralph Yearsley