Richard Yates (politician)
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Richard Yates (politician) was an American statesman 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 (politician) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10503426 — 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 (politician) Context triple: [Yates, hasNotableBearer, Richard Yates (politician)]
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A.
Richard Aldrich (politician)
Richard Aldrich was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives.
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B.
Joseph C. Yates
Joseph C. Yates was an early 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and the seventh governor of New York, after whom Yates County is named.
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C.
John A. Peters
John A. Peters was a prominent American politician and jurist from Maine who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in the 19th century.
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D.
Howard G. Cunningham
Howard G. Cunningham, better known as Ward Cunningham, is an American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki and contributing to agile software development practices.
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E.
Richard Penn Jr.
Richard Penn Jr. was a colonial-era politician who served as a proprietor and later governor of Pennsylvania, representing the influential Penn family's interests in America.
- 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 (politician) Target entity description: Richard Yates (politician) was an American statesman who served as the Civil War–era governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator.
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A.
Richard Aldrich (politician)
Richard Aldrich was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives.
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B.
Joseph C. Yates
Joseph C. Yates was an early 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and the seventh governor of New York, after whom Yates County is named.
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C.
John A. Peters
John A. Peters was a prominent American politician and jurist from Maine who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in the 19th century.
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D.
Howard G. Cunningham
Howard G. Cunningham, better known as Ward Cunningham, is an American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki and contributing to agile software development practices.
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E.
Richard Penn Jr.
Richard Penn Jr. was a colonial-era politician who served as a proprietor and later governor of Pennsylvania, representing the influential Penn family's interests in America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States senator
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| allyOf | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Illinois College
ⓘ
Miami University ⓘ Transylvania University ⓘ |
| electedIn |
1860 Illinois gubernatorial election
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1865 election to the U.S. Senate by the Illinois legislature ⓘ |
| familyName | Yates ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
ⓘ
public administration ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for African American rights during Reconstruction
ⓘ
mobilizing Illinois troops during the Civil War ⓘ strong pro-Union stance as governor of Illinois ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of Illinois during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime |
1865 (Governor of Illinois)
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1871 (United States Senator from Illinois) ⓘ |
| officeStartTime |
1861 (Governor of Illinois)
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1865 (United States Senator from Illinois) ⓘ |
| opposed | secession ⓘ |
| partOf |
Illinois state government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of Illinois
United States Senate ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Illinois
ⓘ
United States Senator ⓘ mayor of Jacksonville, Illinois ⓘ member of the Illinois House of Representatives ⓘ |
| residence |
Jacksonville, Illinois
ⓘ
Springfield, Illinois ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Illinois ⓘ |
| supported |
Union war effort
ⓘ
emancipation of enslaved people ⓘ |
| supportedBy | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Jacksonville, Illinois
ⓘ
Springfield, Illinois ⓘ |
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 (politician) Description of subject: Richard Yates (politician) was an American statesman who served as the Civil War–era governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.