Michael Yeats
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Michael Yeats was an Irish barrister and politician, best known as the son of poet W.B. Yeats and for his long service in Seanad Éireann.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Yeats canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2302542 — 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: Michael Yeats Context triple: [W.B. Yeats, child, Michael Yeats]
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A.
John Merrill
John Merrill was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential international architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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B.
John Merrill
John Merrill is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, such as politics, sports, or academia.
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C.
Michael Ward
Michael Ward was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television comedies.
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D.
John Callaghan
John Callaghan is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably recorded as a bearer of the surname Callaghan.
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E.
Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan is a television and film composer best known for his atmospheric scores on series such as "Castle" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
- 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: Michael Yeats Target entity description: Michael Yeats was an Irish barrister and politician, best known as the son of poet W.B. Yeats and for his long service in Seanad Éireann.
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A.
John Merrill
John Merrill was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential international architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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B.
John Merrill
John Merrill is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, such as politics, sports, or academia.
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C.
Michael Ward
Michael Ward was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television comedies.
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D.
John Callaghan
John Callaghan is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably recorded as a bearer of the surname Callaghan.
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E.
Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan is a television and film composer best known for his atmospheric scores on series such as "Castle" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
King's Inns
ⓘ
University College Dublin ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish ⓘ |
| familyName | Yeats ⓘ |
| father |
W.B. Yeats
ⓘ
surface form:
W. B. Yeats
|
| fieldOfWork |
law
ⓘ
politics ⓘ |
| genre | politics ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Seanad Éireann ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Fianna Fáil ⓘ |
| mother | George Yeats ⓘ |
| name | Michael Yeats self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Yeats family ⓘ |
| notableFor | long service in Seanad Éireann ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Anne Yeats
ⓘ
W.B. Yeats ⓘ
surface form:
W. B. Yeats
|
| occupation |
barrister
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Fianna Fáil ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann
ⓘ
member of Seanad Éireann ⓘ |
| residence | Ireland ⓘ |
| sibling | Anne Yeats ⓘ |
| workLocation | Dublin ⓘ |
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: Michael Yeats Description of subject: Michael Yeats was an Irish barrister and politician, best known as the son of poet W.B. Yeats and for his long service in Seanad Éireann.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.