Ursula Yale
E491201
Ursula Yale was a daughter of Elihu Yale, the wealthy British-American merchant and philanthropist after whom Yale University is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ursula Yale canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5068159 — 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: Ursula Yale Context triple: [Elihu Yale, child, Ursula Yale]
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A.
Ursula Howells
Ursula Howells was a British actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre during the mid-20th century.
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B.
Charlotte Andergast
Charlotte Andergast is the emotionally distant concert pianist mother at the center of Ingmar Bergman’s film "Autumn Sonata," whose strained relationship with her daughter drives the story’s intense psychological drama.
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C.
Gertrude Lamfrom
Gertrude Lamfrom, better known as Gert Boyle, was the longtime chairwoman and public face of Columbia Sportswear, famed for her “One Tough Mother” persona in the company’s advertising.
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D.
Rosalind Ashford
Rosalind Ashford is an American soul and R&B singer best known as one of the original members of the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas.
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E.
Eleanor Black
Eleanor Black is a fictional character from the television series "The Vampire Diaries," known as a witch and member of the powerful Black family.
- 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: Ursula Yale Target entity description: Ursula Yale was a daughter of Elihu Yale, the wealthy British-American merchant and philanthropist after whom Yale University is named.
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A.
Ursula Howells
Ursula Howells was a British actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre during the mid-20th century.
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B.
Charlotte Andergast
Charlotte Andergast is the emotionally distant concert pianist mother at the center of Ingmar Bergman’s film "Autumn Sonata," whose strained relationship with her daughter drives the story’s intense psychological drama.
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C.
Gertrude Lamfrom
Gertrude Lamfrom, better known as Gert Boyle, was the longtime chairwoman and public face of Columbia Sportswear, famed for her “One Tough Mother” persona in the company’s advertising.
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D.
Rosalind Ashford
Rosalind Ashford is an American soul and R&B singer best known as one of the original members of the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas.
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E.
Eleanor Black
Eleanor Black is a fictional character from the television series "The Vampire Diaries," known as a witch and member of the powerful Black family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
university ⓘ |
| childOf | Elihu Yale ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| familyName |
Yale
ⓘ
linked to:
Yale University
|
| givenName | Ursula ⓘ |
| hasChild | Ursula Yale ⓘ |
| hasFather | Elihu Yale ⓘ |
| memberOf | Yale family ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Elihu Yale ⓘ |
| notableFor | namesake of Yale University ⓘ |
| occupation |
merchant
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ |
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: Ursula Yale Description of subject: Ursula Yale was a daughter of Elihu Yale, the wealthy British-American merchant and philanthropist after whom Yale University is named.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ursula Yale