Fielding Harris
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Fielding Harris is the given first and middle name of Fielding H. Yost, the famed early 20th-century American college football coach.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fielding Harris canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11680149 — 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: Fielding Harris Context triple: [Fielding H. Yost, givenName, Fielding Harris]
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A.
Fielding Lewis
Fielding Lewis was an 18th-century Virginia merchant and patriot, best known as the brother-in-law of George Washington and a prominent supporter of the American Revolutionary cause.
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B.
Fielding Dawson
Fielding Dawson was an American writer and painter associated with the Black Mountain poets, known for his experimental prose and close ties to the Black Mountain College community.
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C.
Henry Boucher
Henry Boucher was a French political figure known for co-founding the center-right Democratic Republican Alliance during the Third Republic.
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D.
Horace Henderson
Horace Henderson was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and bandleader known for his influential work in the swing era and for contributing arrangements to his brother Fletcher Henderson’s orchestra.
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E.
Eugene Worley
Eugene Worley was an American jurist who served as a prominent judge on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
- 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: Fielding Harris Target entity description: Fielding Harris is the given first and middle name of Fielding H. Yost, the famed early 20th-century American college football coach.
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A.
Fielding Lewis
Fielding Lewis was an 18th-century Virginia merchant and patriot, best known as the brother-in-law of George Washington and a prominent supporter of the American Revolutionary cause.
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B.
Fielding Dawson
Fielding Dawson was an American writer and painter associated with the Black Mountain poets, known for his experimental prose and close ties to the Black Mountain College community.
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C.
Henry Boucher
Henry Boucher was a French political figure known for co-founding the center-right Democratic Republican Alliance during the Third Republic.
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D.
Horace Henderson
Horace Henderson was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and bandleader known for his influential work in the swing era and for contributing arrangements to his brother Fletcher Henderson’s orchestra.
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E.
Eugene Worley
Eugene Worley was an American jurist who served as a prominent judge on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1871-04-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1946-08-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Ohio Normal University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West Virginia University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Michigan ⓘ |
| familyName | Yost NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
college athletics administration
ⓘ
college football coaching ⓘ |
| givenName | Fielding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPartInName | Fielding Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headCoachOf |
Kansas Wesleyan University football team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michigan Wolverines football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Ohio Wesleyan University football team ⓘ San Jose State football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanford Cardinal football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanford University football team NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Kansas football team NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Nebraska football team NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Nebraska–Lincoln football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headCoachTenureEnd |
1923 (Michigan)
ⓘ
1926 (Michigan) ⓘ |
| headCoachTenureStart |
1901 (Michigan)
ⓘ
1925 (Michigan) ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Lafayette College football team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Pennsylvania football team NERFINISHED ⓘ West Virginia University football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Hurry-Up Yost NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
innovations in hurry-up offense in American football
ⓘ
multiple national championships with Michigan Wolverines football ⓘ |
| notableFor | early 20th-century American college football coaching ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of the "Point-a-Minute" Michigan football teams ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ athletic director ⓘ |
| partOfNameOf | Fielding Harris Yost NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Fairview, West Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | athletic director at University of Michigan ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | tackle ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| workLocation | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Fielding Harris Description of subject: Fielding Harris is the given first and middle name of Fielding H. Yost, the famed early 20th-century American college football coach.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.