Young
E117890
Young is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across diverse fields such as politics, civil rights, science, and the arts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Young canonical | 51 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1004242 — 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: Young Context triple: [Whitney Young, familyName, Young]
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A.
Young
Young is a regional town in New South Wales, Australia, historically known for its gold rush heritage and cherry production.
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B.
Young Adult
Young Adult is a 2011 dark comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody, starring Charlize Theron as a troubled writer who returns to her hometown.
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C.
Junior
Junior is a 1994 comedy film in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a scientist who becomes pregnant as part of an experimental fertility project.
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D.
Junior
Junior is the protagonist of the novel "Love" by Toni Morrison, around whom the story’s complex relationships and themes of desire, memory, and power revolve.
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E.
Young Fashion
Young Fashion is a central character in the work "The Relapse," around whom much of the story’s action and development revolves.
- 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: Young Target entity description: Young is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across diverse fields such as politics, civil rights, science, and the arts.
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A.
Young
Young is a regional town in New South Wales, Australia, historically known for its gold rush heritage and cherry production.
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B.
Young Adult
Young Adult is a 2011 dark comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody, starring Charlize Theron as a troubled writer who returns to her hometown.
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C.
Junior
Junior is a 1994 comedy film in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a scientist who becomes pregnant as part of an experimental fertility project.
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D.
Junior
Junior is the protagonist of the novel "Love" by Toni Morrison, around whom the story’s complex relationships and themes of desire, memory, and power revolve.
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E.
Young Fashion
Young Fashion is a central character in the work "The Relapse," around whom much of the story’s action and development revolves.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
ⓘ
family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
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Surnames from nicknames ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Middle English word "yunge" or "yong" ⓘ |
| etymologyType | descriptive surname ⓘ |
| frequency | common surname in English-speaking countries ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Andrew Young
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Angus Young ⓘ Arthur Young ⓘ Ashley Young ⓘ Brigham Young ⓘ Cole Young ⓘ Cy Young ⓘ Elaine Young ⓘ Kim Young ⓘ Lester Young ⓘ Loretta Young ⓘ Malcolm Young ⓘ Neil Young ⓘ Paul Young ⓘ Robert Young ⓘ Steve Young ⓘ Thomas Young ⓘ Whitney Young ⓘ Will Young ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Jung
ⓘ
Yonge Street ⓘ
surface form:
Yonge
Younger ⓘ Yung ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| meaning | young ⓘ |
| originalUsage | nickname for a younger person or the younger of two bearers of the same given name ⓘ |
| usageRegion |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ South Africa ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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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: Young Description of subject: Young is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across diverse fields such as politics, civil rights, science, and the arts.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.