Jacob Poole
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Jacob Poole was a 19th-century Irish scholar best known for compiling and preserving the vocabulary and records of the now-extinct Yola language of County Wexford.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob Poole canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T975244 — 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: Jacob Poole Context triple: [Yola language, documentedBy, Jacob Poole]
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A.
Ryan Poles
Ryan Poles is an American football executive who serves as the general manager responsible for overseeing roster construction and football operations for the NFL’s Chicago Bears.
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B.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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C.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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D.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
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E.
Matthew Nelson
Matthew Nelson is an American musician best known as one half of the twin brother rock duo Nelson and as a son of rock and roll star Ricky Nelson.
- 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: Jacob Poole Target entity description: Jacob Poole was a 19th-century Irish scholar best known for compiling and preserving the vocabulary and records of the now-extinct Yola language of County Wexford.
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A.
Ryan Poles
Ryan Poles is an American football executive who serves as the general manager responsible for overseeing roster construction and football operations for the NFL’s Chicago Bears.
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B.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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C.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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D.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
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E.
Matthew Nelson
Matthew Nelson is an American musician best known as one half of the twin brother rock duo Nelson and as a son of rock and roll star Ricky Nelson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lexicographer
ⓘ
person ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
County Wexford
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surface form:
County Wexford, Ireland
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| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
documentation of the Yola language
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preservation of an extinct English-related dialect in Ireland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| era | 19th century Ireland ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
dialectology
ⓘ
lexicography ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| helpedPreserve | now-extinct Yola language ⓘ |
| knownFor |
compiling Yola vocabulary
ⓘ
preserving records of the Yola language ⓘ work on the Yola language ⓘ |
| languageOfStudy | Yola ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableWorkSubject |
Yola phrases and expressions
ⓘ
Yola vocabulary ⓘ |
| occupation |
lexicographer
ⓘ
scholar ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | County Wexford ⓘ |
| studied | Yola language of County Wexford ⓘ |
| studiedDialectOf |
baronies of Forth and Bargy
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surface form:
Forth and Bargy baronies in County Wexford
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Jacob Poole Description of subject: Jacob Poole was a 19th-century Irish scholar best known for compiling and preserving the vocabulary and records of the now-extinct Yola language of County Wexford.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.