Yeats
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Yeats is a prominent Irish surname most famously associated with poet W. B. Yeats and his influential literary family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yeats canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10767827 — 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 Context triple: [Michael Yeats, familyName, Yeats]
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A.
W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, a leading figure of 20th-century literature and co-founder of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, renowned for his lyrical verse and exploration of Irish identity and mysticism.
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B.
G. R. Yeats
G. R. Yeats was a British architect best known for designing London’s iconic BT Tower telecommunications structure.
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C.
George Yeats
George Yeats (born Georgie Hyde-Lees) was an English-born Irish woman best known as the wife and muse of poet W. B. Yeats and a noted practitioner of automatic writing that influenced his work.
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D.
John Butler Yeats
John Butler Yeats was an Irish portrait painter and the father of poet W.B. Yeats, known for his insightful, character-rich depictions of Irish cultural figures.
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E.
Jack Butler Yeats
Jack Butler Yeats was an Irish painter and illustrator renowned for his expressive depictions of Irish life and landscapes and as a leading figure in 20th-century Irish art.
- 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 Target entity description: Yeats is a prominent Irish surname most famously associated with poet W. B. Yeats and his influential literary family.
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A.
W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, a leading figure of 20th-century literature and co-founder of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, renowned for his lyrical verse and exploration of Irish identity and mysticism.
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B.
G. R. Yeats
G. R. Yeats was a British architect best known for designing London’s iconic BT Tower telecommunications structure.
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C.
George Yeats
George Yeats (born Georgie Hyde-Lees) was an English-born Irish woman best known as the wife and muse of poet W. B. Yeats and a noted practitioner of automatic writing that influenced his work.
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D.
John Butler Yeats
John Butler Yeats was an Irish portrait painter and the father of poet W.B. Yeats, known for his insightful, character-rich depictions of Irish cultural figures.
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E.
Jack Butler Yeats
Jack Butler Yeats was an Irish painter and illustrator renowned for his expressive depictions of Irish life and landscapes and as a leading figure in 20th-century Irish art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily | Yeats family ⓘ |
| associatedWithField |
Irish nationalism
ⓘ
book design ⓘ literature ⓘ poetry ⓘ printing ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| etymologicalType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Anne Yeats
ⓘ
Elizabeth Corbet Yeats ⓘ
linked to:
Elizabeth Corbet "Lolly" Yeats
George Yeats ⓘ Jack B. Yeats ⓘ
linked to:
Jack Butler Yeats
John Butler Yeats ⓘ Lily Yeats ⓘ
linked to:
Susan Mary "Lily" 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
|
| hasVariantSpelling |
Yates
ⓘ
Yeates ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with W. B. Yeats
ⓘ
association with an influential Irish literary family ⓘ |
| regionOfPrevalence |
Ireland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| relatedTo |
Irish cultural history
ⓘ
Irish literature ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Yeats is a prominent Irish surname most famously associated with poet W. B. Yeats and his influential literary family.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.