Yost
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American actor
American football coach
Canadian screenwriter
family name
ghost town
human
indoor ice hockey arena
surname
unincorporated community
Yost is a surname most notably associated with Fielding H. Yost, the pioneering early 20th-century American college football coach.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yost canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2542204 — 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: Yost Context triple: [Fielding H. Yost, familyName, Yost]
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A.
Reinsdorf
Reinsdorf is a surname most prominently associated with American sports team owner Jerry Reinsdorf, known for owning the Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox.
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B.
Yobo
Yobo is a fictional character from "The Norby Chronicles," a science fiction series by Janet and Isaac Asimov centered on the adventures of a quirky robot and his human companion.
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C.
Yount
Yount is a surname most notably associated with American frontiersman and early California settler George C. Yount.
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D.
Cloyce
Cloyce is a surname most notably associated with Sarah Cloyce, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials in 17th-century Massachusetts.
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E.
Keefer
Keefer was a distinguished racing greyhound renowned for its achievements on the track, earning induction into the Greyhound Hall of Fame.
- 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: Yost Target entity description: Yost is a surname most notably associated with Fielding H. Yost, the pioneering early 20th-century American college football coach.
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A.
Reinsdorf
Reinsdorf is a surname most prominently associated with American sports team owner Jerry Reinsdorf, known for owning the Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox.
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B.
Yobo
Yobo is a fictional character from "The Norby Chronicles," a science fiction series by Janet and Isaac Asimov centered on the adventures of a quirky robot and his human companion.
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C.
Yount
Yount is a surname most notably associated with American frontiersman and early California settler George C. Yount.
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D.
Cloyce
Cloyce is a surname most notably associated with Sarah Cloyce, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials in 17th-century Massachusetts.
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E.
Keefer
Keefer was a distinguished racing greyhound renowned for its achievements on the track, earning induction into the Greyhound Hall of Fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
American football coach ⓘ Canadian screenwriter ⓘ family name ⓘ ghost town ⓘ human ⓘ indoor ice hockey arena ⓘ surname ⓘ unincorporated community ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Yost Ice Arena ⓘ |
| coachedTeam | Michigan Wolverines football ⓘ |
| coachingTenureEnd | 1926 ⓘ |
| coachingTenureStart | 1901 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfBirth | 1871-04-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1946-08-20 ⓘ |
| employer | University of Michigan ⓘ |
| familyName | Yost self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| givenName | Fielding Harris ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | College Football Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
David Yost
ⓘ
Graham Yost ⓘ |
| hasToponym |
Yost, Utah
ⓘ
Lindell, Virginia ⓘ
surface form:
Yost, Virginia
|
| knownFor |
innovative hurry-up offense in American football
ⓘ
leading Michigan to multiple national championships ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| location |
Ann Arbor
ⓘ
surface form:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
|
| namedAfter | Fielding H. Yost ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Hurry Up Yost ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Fielding H. Yost ⓘ |
| occupation |
athletic director
ⓘ
college football coach ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Fairview, West Virginia, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Ann Arbor
ⓘ
surface form:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
|
| position | head coach ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| state |
Utah
ⓘ
Virginia ⓘ |
| usedAs |
surname in Canada
ⓘ
surname in Germany ⓘ surname in the United States ⓘ |
| variantOf | Jost ⓘ |
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: Yost Description of subject: Yost is a surname most notably associated with Fielding H. Yost, the pioneering early 20th-century American college football coach.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Fielding H. Yost