Joseph C. Yates
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Joseph C. Yates was an early 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and the seventh governor of New York, after whom Yates County is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph C. Yates canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5157997 — 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: Joseph C. Yates Context triple: [Yates County, New York, namedAfter, Joseph C. Yates]
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A.
John A. Crews
John A. Crews was a United States military service member interred at Golden Gate National Cemetery, likely recognized for his service to the country.
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B.
John F. Sattler
John F. Sattler is a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general known for his leadership of Marine forces during the Iraq War, including major operations in Fallujah.
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C.
Joseph P. Widney
Joseph P. Widney was an American physician, educator, and religious leader who played a key role in early Nazarene and holiness movements and served as the second president of the University of Southern California.
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D.
Charles M. Barnes
Charles M. Barnes was an American entrepreneur and bookseller best known as a co-founder of the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain.
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E.
Charles J. Hatfield
Charles J. Hatfield was an American physician and public health leader best known as a co-founder and early driving force behind the American Cancer Society.
- 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: Joseph C. Yates Target entity description: Joseph C. Yates was an early 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and the seventh governor of New York, after whom Yates County is named.
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A.
John A. Crews
John A. Crews was a United States military service member interred at Golden Gate National Cemetery, likely recognized for his service to the country.
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B.
John F. Sattler
John F. Sattler is a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general known for his leadership of Marine forces during the Iraq War, including major operations in Fallujah.
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C.
Joseph P. Widney
Joseph P. Widney was an American physician, educator, and religious leader who played a key role in early Nazarene and holiness movements and served as the second president of the University of Southern California.
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D.
Charles M. Barnes
Charles M. Barnes was an American entrepreneur and bookseller best known as a co-founder of the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain.
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E.
Charles J. Hatfield
Charles J. Hatfield was an American physician and public health leader best known as a co-founder and early driving force behind the American Cancer Society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Union College ⓘ |
| familyName | Yates ⓘ |
| givenName | Joseph ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic-Republican Party ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Joseph C. Yates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namesakeOf | Yates County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | service as seventh Governor of New York ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | Governor of New York ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 7 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Schenectady, New York ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Schenectady, New York ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of New York
ⓘ
Mayor of Schenectady ⓘ New York State Senator ⓘ judge of the New York Supreme Court ⓘ |
| residence | Schenectady, New York ⓘ |
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: Joseph C. Yates Description of subject: Joseph C. Yates was an early 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and the seventh governor of New York, after whom Yates County is named.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.