Frank Yates
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Frank Yates was a prominent British statistician known for his influential work in experimental design and agricultural statistics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frank Yates canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8912450 — 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: Frank Yates Context triple: [Rothamsted Experimental Station, associatedWith, Frank Yates]
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A.
Granville Bates
Granville Bates was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and early 1940s.
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B.
Clive Beddoe
Clive Beddoe is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the low-cost airline WestJet.
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C.
Jack Fawcett
Jack Fawcett was the son of British explorer Percy Fawcett who disappeared with his father during their ill-fated 1925 expedition into the Amazon in search of the lost city of "Z."
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D.
Frank Campion
Frank Campion is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Welland, Ontario.
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E.
Giles Wilson
Giles Wilson is one of the sons of former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
- 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: Frank Yates Target entity description: Frank Yates was a prominent British statistician known for his influential work in experimental design and agricultural statistics.
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A.
Granville Bates
Granville Bates was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and early 1940s.
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B.
Clive Beddoe
Clive Beddoe is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the low-cost airline WestJet.
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C.
Jack Fawcett
Jack Fawcett was the son of British explorer Percy Fawcett who disappeared with his father during their ill-fated 1925 expedition into the Amazon in search of the lost city of "Z."
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D.
Frank Campion
Frank Campion is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Welland, Ontario.
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E.
Giles Wilson
Giles Wilson is one of the sons of former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Frank Yates Description of subject: Frank Yates was a prominent British statistician known for his influential work in experimental design and agricultural statistics.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.