Jack Butler Yeats
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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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Butler Yeats canonical | 5 |
| Jack B. Yeats | 2 |
| Yeats | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2302539 — 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: Jack Butler Yeats Context triple: [W.B. Yeats, sibling, Jack Butler Yeats]
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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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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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C.
J. M. Synge
J. M. Synge was an Irish playwright and key figure of the Irish Literary Revival, best known for works like "The Playboy of the Western World" that vividly depict rural Irish life.
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T. F. O'Rahilly
T. F. O'Rahilly was an influential Irish linguist and Celtic scholar known for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Irish language and other Celtic tongues.
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E.
Edwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey was an American illustrator and painter renowned for his historical and literary scenes, particularly his illustrations for Shakespeare and his murals for the Pennsylvania State Capitol.
- 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: Jack Butler Yeats Target entity description: 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.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
J. M. Synge
J. M. Synge was an Irish playwright and key figure of the Irish Literary Revival, best known for works like "The Playboy of the Western World" that vividly depict rural Irish life.
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D.
T. F. O'Rahilly
T. F. O'Rahilly was an influential Irish linguist and Celtic scholar known for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Irish language and other Celtic tongues.
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E.
Edwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey was an American illustrator and painter renowned for his historical and literary scenes, particularly his illustrations for Shakespeare and his murals for the Pennsylvania State Capitol.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Jack Butler Yeats Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yeats
this entity surface form:
Jack B. Yeats
this entity surface form:
Jack B. Yeats