Charles Yorke
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Charles Yorke was an 18th-century British lawyer and politician who briefly served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Yorke canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10147584 — 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: Charles Yorke Context triple: [Yorke, hasNotableBearer, Charles Yorke]
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A.
Henry Yorke
Henry Yorke is a British novelist better known by his pen name Henry Green, acclaimed for his innovative modernist fiction in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Charles Parrott
Charles Parrott, better known by his stage name Charley Chase, was an American silent and early sound film comedian, actor, and director renowned for his work with Hal Roach Studios in the 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
Charles Apthorp
Charles Apthorp was an 18th-century Boston merchant and prominent Loyalist known as one of the wealthiest and most influential businessmen in colonial New England.
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D.
William Orlamond
William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
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E.
Edward Talbot
Edward Talbot was an Anglican clergyman who became the inaugural Bishop of Southwark in the Church of England.
- 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: Charles Yorke Target entity description: Charles Yorke was an 18th-century British lawyer and politician who briefly served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
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A.
Henry Yorke
Henry Yorke is a British novelist better known by his pen name Henry Green, acclaimed for his innovative modernist fiction in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Charles Parrott
Charles Parrott, better known by his stage name Charley Chase, was an American silent and early sound film comedian, actor, and director renowned for his work with Hal Roach Studios in the 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
Charles Apthorp
Charles Apthorp was an 18th-century Boston merchant and prominent Loyalist known as one of the wealthiest and most influential businessmen in colonial New England.
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D.
William Orlamond
William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
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E.
Edward Talbot
Edward Talbot was an Anglican clergyman who became the inaugural Bishop of Southwark in the Church of England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British politician
ⓘ
barrister ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | King George III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1722-12-30 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| burialPlace | Wimpole, Cambridgeshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfAssumingOffice | 1770-01-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfLeavingOffice | 1770-01-20 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1770-01-20 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| educatedAt |
Cambridge University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Yorke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | legal writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Middle Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Margaret Cocks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| notableFor |
brief tenure as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
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prominent 18th-century legal career ⓘ |
| notableWork |
legal opinions on colonial affairs
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participation in the Stamp Act 1765 debates ⓘ |
| occupation |
barrister
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judge ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| parliamentaryTerm | House of Commons of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Attorney General for England and Wales
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lord Chancellor of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ Member of Parliament of Great Britain ⓘ Solicitor General for England and Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForLeavingOffice | death in office ⓘ |
| religion | Church of England ⓘ |
| representedInParliament |
Cambridge University constituency
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lymington NERFINISHED ⓘ Reigate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder | George III of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Agnes Cocks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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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: Charles Yorke Description of subject: Charles Yorke was an 18th-century British lawyer and politician who briefly served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.