Pollexfen
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Pollexfen is an Irish family surname historically associated with the family of Susan Mary Pollexfen, the mother of poet W. B. Yeats.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pollexfen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10767723 — 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: Pollexfen Context triple: [Susan Mary Pollexfen, familyName, Pollexfen]
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A.
Blackfen
Blackfen is a suburban residential area in the London Borough of Bexley, known for its local shops, schools, and proximity to Sidcup.
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B.
Umberleigh
Umberleigh is a small rural village in North Devon, England, situated on the River Taw and served by a local railway station.
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C.
Hallerowo
Hallerowo is a district of the seaside town Władysławowo in northern Poland, known for its coastal location on the Baltic Sea.
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D.
Puckane
Puckane is a small rural village in Ireland known for its traditional character and location near Lough Derg in County Tipperary.
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E.
Yarrowitch
Yarrowitch is a small rural locality in New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to national parks and natural attractions.
- 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: Pollexfen Target entity description: Pollexfen is an Irish family surname historically associated with the family of Susan Mary Pollexfen, the mother of poet W. B. Yeats.
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A.
Blackfen
Blackfen is a suburban residential area in the London Borough of Bexley, known for its local shops, schools, and proximity to Sidcup.
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B.
Umberleigh
Umberleigh is a small rural village in North Devon, England, situated on the River Taw and served by a local railway station.
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C.
Hallerowo
Hallerowo is a district of the seaside town Władysławowo in northern Poland, known for its coastal location on the Baltic Sea.
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D.
Puckane
Puckane is a small rural village in Ireland known for its traditional character and location near Lough Derg in County Tipperary.
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E.
Yarrowitch
Yarrowitch is a small rural locality in New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to national parks and natural attractions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily | Pollexfen family ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Susan Mary Pollexfen
ⓘ
W. B. Yeats (through maternal line) ⓘ
linked to:
Yeats family
|
| hasSpellingVariant | Pollexfen (no widely known major variants) ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name in Ireland ⓘ |
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: Pollexfen Description of subject: Pollexfen is an Irish family surname historically associated with the family of Susan Mary Pollexfen, the mother of poet W. B. Yeats.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.