Yeats family
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The Yeats family is an influential Irish family best known for producing the Nobel Prize–winning poet W. B. Yeats and several other prominent figures in literature, politics, and the arts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yeats family canonical | 7 |
| W. B. Yeats (through maternal line) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10767842 — 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: Yeats family Context triple: [Michael Yeats, notableFamily, Yeats family]
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A.
FitzGerald family
The FitzGerald family is a prominent Anglo-Norman dynasty in Ireland historically known as the Earls of Kildare and Desmond, influential in Irish politics and society from the medieval period onward.
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B.
O'Conor family
The O'Conor family is a historic Irish noble lineage traditionally recognized as the ruling dynasty of the medieval Kingdom of Connacht and claimants to the title of High Kings of Ireland.
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C.
O'Neill dynasty
The O'Neill dynasty is a prominent Gaelic Irish royal family that historically ruled parts of Ulster and produced many notable military and political leaders.
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D.
Walsh family
The Walsh family is a prominent fictional family featured in the long-running American soap opera "As the World Turns."
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E.
Sigerson family
The Sigerson family is an Irish family best known for its members’ contributions to literature, scholarship, and public life in Ireland.
- 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: Yeats family Target entity description: The Yeats family is an influential Irish family best known for producing the Nobel Prize–winning poet W. B. Yeats and several other prominent figures in literature, politics, and the arts.
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A.
FitzGerald family
The FitzGerald family is a prominent Anglo-Norman dynasty in Ireland historically known as the Earls of Kildare and Desmond, influential in Irish politics and society from the medieval period onward.
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B.
O'Conor family
The O'Conor family is a historic Irish noble lineage traditionally recognized as the ruling dynasty of the medieval Kingdom of Connacht and claimants to the title of High Kings of Ireland.
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C.
O'Neill dynasty
The O'Neill dynasty is a prominent Gaelic Irish royal family that historically ruled parts of Ulster and produced many notable military and political leaders.
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D.
Walsh family
The Walsh family is a prominent fictional family featured in the long-running American soap opera "As the World Turns."
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E.
Sigerson family
The Sigerson family is an Irish family best known for its members’ contributions to literature, scholarship, and public life in Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish family
ⓘ
family ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement |
Celtic Revival
ⓘ
Irish Literary Revival ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization |
Abbey Theatre
ⓘ
Cuala Press ⓘ Dun Emer Press ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
County Galway
ⓘ
Dublin ⓘ London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
Sandymount, Dublin ⓘ
linked to:
Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland
Thoor Ballylee ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish people ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
Celtic Revival
ⓘ
Irish literary revival ⓘ Irish nationalism ⓘ |
| hasFamilySeat | County Sligo ⓘ |
| hasNotableAchievement |
involvement in Irish political life
ⓘ
major influence on modern Irish poetry ⓘ produced a Nobel Prize–winning poet ⓘ significant contribution to Irish visual art ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Anne Yeats
ⓘ
Elizabeth Corbet Yeats ⓘ
linked to:
Elizabeth Corbet "Lolly" Yeats
Elizabeth Yeats (mother of W. B. Yeats) ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Cottenham Yeats
George Hyde-Lees ⓘ George Yeats ⓘ Jack B. Yeats ⓘ
linked to:
Jack Butler Yeats
Jack Butler Yeats ⓘ John Butler Yeats ⓘ John Yeats (lawyer) ⓘ Lily Yeats ⓘ
linked to:
Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats
Mary Cottenham Yeats ⓘ Michael Yeats ⓘ Susan Mary Yeats ⓘ
linked to:
Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats
W. B. Yeats ⓘ
linked to:
W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats ⓘ
linked to:
W.B. Yeats
|
| languageOfActivity |
English
ⓘ
Irish literature in English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
literature
ⓘ
poetry ⓘ politics ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| religiousBackground | Protestant ⓘ |
| socialClass | Anglo-Irish ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
19th century
ⓘ
20th century ⓘ |
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: Yeats family Description of subject: The Yeats family is an influential Irish family best known for producing the Nobel Prize–winning poet W. B. Yeats and several other prominent figures in literature, politics, and the arts.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yeats family