Frances Yates
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Frances Yates was a British historian renowned for her influential studies on Renaissance esotericism, Hermeticism, and the history of ideas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frances Yates canonical | 2 |
| Frances Amelia Yates | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10503436 — 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: Frances Yates Context triple: [Yates, hasNotableBearer, Frances Yates]
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A.
Lisa Jardine
Lisa Jardine was a prominent British historian of the Renaissance and early modern period, noted for her work on science, culture, and the history of ideas.
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B.
Helen Minerva Wardner
Helen Minerva Wardner was the wife of prominent American lawyer and statesman William M. Evarts, who served as U.S. Secretary of State and Attorney General in the 19th century.
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C.
Eileen Power
Eileen Power was a prominent British economic historian and medievalist known for her influential work on medieval society, trade, and women's history.
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D.
Delia Bacon
Delia Bacon was a 19th-century American writer and lecturer best known for pioneering the theory that Shakespeare's plays were authored by a group of contemporary intellectuals rather than William Shakespeare himself.
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E.
Margaret Froude
Margaret Froude was the wife of Victorian English historian and biographer James Anthony Froude.
- 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: Frances Yates Target entity description: Frances Yates was a British historian renowned for her influential studies on Renaissance esotericism, Hermeticism, and the history of ideas.
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A.
Lisa Jardine
Lisa Jardine was a prominent British historian of the Renaissance and early modern period, noted for her work on science, culture, and the history of ideas.
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B.
Helen Minerva Wardner
Helen Minerva Wardner was the wife of prominent American lawyer and statesman William M. Evarts, who served as U.S. Secretary of State and Attorney General in the 19th century.
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C.
Eileen Power
Eileen Power was a prominent British economic historian and medievalist known for her influential work on medieval society, trade, and women's history.
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D.
Delia Bacon
Delia Bacon was a 19th-century American writer and lecturer best known for pioneering the theory that Shakespeare's plays were authored by a group of contemporary intellectuals rather than William Shakespeare himself.
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E.
Margaret Froude
Margaret Froude was the wife of Victorian English historian and biographer James Anthony Froude.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Frances Yates Description of subject: Frances Yates was a British historian renowned for her influential studies on Renaissance esotericism, Hermeticism, and the history of ideas.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Frances Yates