Samuel Mayes
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Samuel Mayes was an American cellist renowned for his orchestral and chamber music performances in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Mayes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9397847 — 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: Samuel Mayes Context triple: [Felix Salmond, notableStudent, Samuel Mayes]
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A.
Samuel Todd
Samuel Todd was a 19th-century American figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Todd family of Kentucky, which included his sister Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Samuel Weaver
Samuel Weaver was the teenage son of Randy Weaver who was fatally shot by U.S. marshals during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho.
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C.
Samuel Anderson
Samuel Anderson is a British actor best known for his work in television and theatre, including notable roles in series like "Doctor Who" and "Emmerdale."
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D.
Samuel Greg
Samuel Greg was an 18th–19th century British industrialist and prominent cotton manufacturer, best known as a leading figure of the early Industrial Revolution.
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E.
Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray was an American sculptor known for his public monuments and portrait statues in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Samuel Mayes Target entity description: Samuel Mayes was an American cellist renowned for his orchestral and chamber music performances in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Samuel Todd
Samuel Todd was a 19th-century American figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Todd family of Kentucky, which included his sister Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Samuel Weaver
Samuel Weaver was the teenage son of Randy Weaver who was fatally shot by U.S. marshals during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho.
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C.
Samuel Anderson
Samuel Anderson is a British actor best known for his work in television and theatre, including notable roles in series like "Doctor Who" and "Emmerdale."
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D.
Samuel Greg
Samuel Greg was an 18th–19th century British industrialist and prominent cotton manufacturer, best known as a leading figure of the early Industrial Revolution.
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E.
Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray was an American sculptor known for his public monuments and portrait statues in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cellist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| artisticRole |
chamber musician
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orchestral cellist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
chamber music
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orchestral music ⓘ |
| genre | classical music ⓘ |
| instrument | cello ⓘ |
| notableFor |
chamber music performances
ⓘ
orchestral performances ⓘ |
| occupation | cellist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Samuel Mayes Description of subject: Samuel Mayes was an American cellist renowned for his orchestral and chamber music performances in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.