Old Probabilities
E516830
Old Probabilities was the popular nickname of Cleveland Abbe, a pioneering American meteorologist known for his influential early weather forecasting work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Probabilities canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5402323 — 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: Old Probabilities Context triple: [Cleveland Abbe, nickname, Old Probabilities]
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A.
Old and New
Old and New is the alternate title of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1929 Soviet silent film "The General Line," which depicts the collectivization of agriculture in a Russian village.
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B.
Of Knowledge and Probability
"Of Knowledge and Probability" is a section in John Locke’s *An Essay Concerning Human Understanding* that analyzes the nature, degrees, and limits of human knowledge in contrast with mere probability or belief.
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C.
Truth and Probability
Truth and Probability is a foundational 1926 essay by philosopher F. P. Ramsey that develops a subjective theory of probability and lays groundwork for modern Bayesian decision theory.
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D.
Bayes’ theorem
Bayes’ theorem is a fundamental result in probability theory that describes how to update the probability of a hypothesis based on new evidence.
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E.
Long Time
"Long Time" is a melancholic, atmospheric intro track by rapper Playboi Carti, known for its ethereal production and emotionally reflective tone on his album *Die Lit*.
- 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: Old Probabilities Target entity description: Old Probabilities was the popular nickname of Cleveland Abbe, a pioneering American meteorologist known for his influential early weather forecasting work.
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A.
Old and New
Old and New is the alternate title of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1929 Soviet silent film "The General Line," which depicts the collectivization of agriculture in a Russian village.
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B.
Of Knowledge and Probability
"Of Knowledge and Probability" is a section in John Locke’s *An Essay Concerning Human Understanding* that analyzes the nature, degrees, and limits of human knowledge in contrast with mere probability or belief.
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C.
Truth and Probability
Truth and Probability is a foundational 1926 essay by philosopher F. P. Ramsey that develops a subjective theory of probability and lays groundwork for modern Bayesian decision theory.
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D.
Bayes’ theorem
Bayes’ theorem is a fundamental result in probability theory that describes how to update the probability of a hypothesis based on new evidence.
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E.
Long Time
"Long Time" is a melancholic, atmospheric intro track by rapper Playboi Carti, known for its ethereal production and emotionally reflective tone on his album *Die Lit*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
meteorologist ⓘ nickname ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Royal Meteorological Society Symons Gold Medal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1838-12-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1916-10-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
University of Michigan ⓘ |
| employer |
U.S. Army Signal Service
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Army Signal Corps
U.S. Weather Bureau ⓘ
linked to:
National Weather Service
|
| familyName | Abbe ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
meteorology
ⓘ
weather forecasting ⓘ |
| givenName | Cleveland ⓘ |
| influenced | development of modern U.S. weather services ⓘ |
| knownFor |
daily weather maps and forecasts
ⓘ
organizing a national weather service ⓘ pioneering weather forecasting in the United States ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | issued some of the first regular weather forecasts in the United States ⓘ |
| notableNickname | Old Probabilities ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of systematic storm warnings in the U.S. ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronomer
ⓘ
meteorologist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Chevy Chase, Maryland ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chief meteorologist of the U.S. Weather Bureau ⓘ |
| refersTo | Cleveland Abbe ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cincinnati, Ohio
ⓘ
linked to:
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Old Probabilities Description of subject: Old Probabilities was the popular nickname of Cleveland Abbe, a pioneering American meteorologist known for his influential early weather forecasting work.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Old Probabilities