Philip Yorke (customs officer)
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Philip Yorke was a British customs officer and son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, who lived in the 18th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philip Yorke (customs officer) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10147661 — 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: Philip Yorke (customs officer) Context triple: [Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, father, Philip Yorke (customs officer)]
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A.
Sir Samuel Eyre
Sir Samuel Eyre was an English judge of the late 17th century who served as a Justice of the King’s Bench.
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B.
Sir Charles Yorke
Sir Charles Yorke was an 18th-century British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
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C.
Henry Bolton
Henry Bolton is a British politician best known for serving as leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in 2017–2018.
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D.
John Birbeck
John Birbeck was one of the climbers who achieved the first recorded ascent of Dufourspitze, the highest peak in Switzerland and the Monte Rosa massif.
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E.
Thomas Byerley
Thomas Byerley was a key manager and business partner in the Wedgwood pottery enterprise, helping to expand and oversee its commercial operations in the late 18th and early 19th 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: Philip Yorke (customs officer) Target entity description: Philip Yorke was a British customs officer and son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, who lived in the 18th century.
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A.
Sir Samuel Eyre
Sir Samuel Eyre was an English judge of the late 17th century who served as a Justice of the King’s Bench.
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B.
Sir Charles Yorke
Sir Charles Yorke was an 18th-century British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
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C.
Henry Bolton
Henry Bolton is a British politician best known for serving as leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in 2017–2018.
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D.
John Birbeck
John Birbeck was one of the climbers who achieved the first recorded ascent of Dufourspitze, the highest peak in Switzerland and the Monte Rosa massif.
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E.
Thomas Byerley
Thomas Byerley was a key manager and business partner in the Wedgwood pottery enterprise, helping to expand and oversee its commercial operations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British customs officer
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human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| family | Yorke family ⓘ |
| father | Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke ⓘ |
| givenName | Philip ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Yorke family ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke ⓘ |
| occupation | customs officer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Great Britain ⓘ |
| positionHeld | British customs officer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialClass | British nobility ⓘ |
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: Philip Yorke (customs officer) Description of subject: Philip Yorke was a British customs officer and son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, who lived in the 18th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.