Paul Y. Robertson
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Paul Y. Robertson is a political figure who ran for mayor in San Francisco's 2019 municipal election.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Y. Robertson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2070444 — 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: Paul Y. Robertson Context triple: [San Francisco mayoral election, 2019, candidate, Paul Y. Robertson]
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A.
Charles E. Whittaker
Charles E. Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 1950s and early 1960s, known for his often moderate and sometimes conflicted positions on key constitutional issues.
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B.
George N. Clements
George N. Clements was an influential linguist and phonologist known for his work on feature geometry and the theory of syllable structure.
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C.
Gérard F. Gilmore
Gérard F. Gilmore is a British astronomer known for his influential work on the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way galaxy.
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D.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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E.
John R. Brooke
John R. Brooke was a United States Army general who served as the first American military governor of Cuba following the Spanish–American War.
- 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: Paul Y. Robertson Target entity description: Paul Y. Robertson is a political figure who ran for mayor in San Francisco's 2019 municipal election.
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A.
Charles E. Whittaker
Charles E. Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 1950s and early 1960s, known for his often moderate and sometimes conflicted positions on key constitutional issues.
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B.
George N. Clements
George N. Clements was an influential linguist and phonologist known for his work on feature geometry and the theory of syllable structure.
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C.
Gérard F. Gilmore
Gérard F. Gilmore is a British astronomer known for his influential work on the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way galaxy.
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D.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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E.
John R. Brooke
John R. Brooke was a United States Army general who served as the first American military governor of Cuba following the Spanish–American War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| candidateForOffice | Mayor of San Francisco ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| familyName | Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| name | Paul Y. Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 2019 San Francisco municipal election ⓘ |
| politicalActivityLocation |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Paul Y. Robertson Description of subject: Paul Y. Robertson is a political figure who ran for mayor in San Francisco's 2019 municipal election.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.