James Yates
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James Yates is a name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Yates canonical | 1 |
| James Yates (politician) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10503440 — 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: James Yates Context triple: [Yates, hasNotableBearer, James Yates]
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A.
Andrew Yates
Andrew Yates is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Yates but who does not have widely recognized public prominence.
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B.
Bill Yates
Bill Yates is a computer engineer best known for his role in developing the pioneering MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer, which helped spark the personal computing revolution in the mid-1970s.
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C.
Bill Yates
Bill Yates is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Yates.
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D.
William D. Byron
William D. Byron was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland who served briefly in the early 1940s before dying in a plane crash while in office.
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E.
Chris Waller
Chris Waller is an American gymnastics coach and former UCLA gymnast who has served as the head coach of the UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics team.
- 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: James Yates Target entity description: James Yates is a name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
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A.
Andrew Yates
Andrew Yates is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Yates but who does not have widely recognized public prominence.
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B.
Bill Yates
Bill Yates is a computer engineer best known for his role in developing the pioneering MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer, which helped spark the personal computing revolution in the mid-1970s.
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C.
Bill Yates
Bill Yates is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Yates.
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D.
William D. Byron
William D. Byron was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland who served briefly in the early 1940s before dying in a plane crash while in office.
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E.
Chris Waller
Chris Waller is an American gymnastics coach and former UCLA gymnast who has served as the head coach of the UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human name ⓘ |
| country of citizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| field of work | classical antiquities ⓘ |
| gender |
male
ⓘ
male ⓘ male ⓘ male ⓘ male ⓘ male ⓘ |
| has family name | Yates ⓘ |
| has given name | James ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| movement | abolitionism in the United States ⓘ |
| notable for |
being an African-American abolitionist and Civil War soldier
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holding elected office in the United States ⓘ playing professional American football in the NFL ⓘ playing professional football in England ⓘ work as a Unitarian minister and religious writer ⓘ writings on classical antiquities ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football player
ⓘ
Unitarian minister ⓘ abolitionist ⓘ antiquary ⓘ association football player ⓘ politician ⓘ soldier ⓘ theologian ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participated in | American Civil War ⓘ |
| position played | end ⓘ |
| religion | Unitarianism ⓘ |
| sport |
American football
ⓘ
association football ⓘ |
| team | Chicago Cardinals ⓘ |
| used by |
James Yates (American football)
ⓘ
James Yates (abolitionist) ⓘ James Yates (antiquary) ⓘ James Yates (footballer) ⓘ James Yates (minister) ⓘ James Yates (politician) ⓘ
linked to:
James Yates
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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: James Yates Description of subject: James Yates is a name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: James Yates