Ingersoll naval family
E1005003
The Ingersoll naval family is a prominent American lineage known for producing multiple high-ranking U.S. Navy officers across several generations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ingersoll naval family canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12809878 — 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: Ingersoll naval family Context triple: [Royal E. Ingersoll, notableFamily, Ingersoll naval family]
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A.
William Bainbridge
William Bainbridge was a prominent early U.S. Navy officer best known for commanding the frigate USS Constitution to a major victory over HMS Java in the War of 1812.
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B.
Lally Weymouth
Lally Weymouth is an American journalist and editor known for her high-profile political interviews and as a prominent member of the family that long owned The Washington Post.
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C.
James Lawrence
James Lawrence was a U.S. naval officer and War of 1812 hero best known for his dying command, "Don't give up the ship."
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D.
William Stephen Hamilton
William Stephen Hamilton was an American pioneer, miner, and politician, known as the son of Alexander and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and for his role in the early development of the American Midwest and California during the Gold Rush era.
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E.
Malcolm Melville
Malcolm Melville was a son of American novelist Herman Melville and his wife Elizabeth Shaw Melville.
- 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: Ingersoll naval family Target entity description: The Ingersoll naval family is a prominent American lineage known for producing multiple high-ranking U.S. Navy officers across several generations.
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A.
William Bainbridge
William Bainbridge was a prominent early U.S. Navy officer best known for commanding the frigate USS Constitution to a major victory over HMS Java in the War of 1812.
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B.
Lally Weymouth
Lally Weymouth is an American journalist and editor known for her high-profile political interviews and as a prominent member of the family that long owned The Washington Post.
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C.
James Lawrence
James Lawrence was a U.S. naval officer and War of 1812 hero best known for his dying command, "Don't give up the ship."
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D.
William Stephen Hamilton
William Stephen Hamilton was an American pioneer, miner, and politician, known as the son of Alexander and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and for his role in the early development of the American Midwest and California during the Gold Rush era.
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E.
Malcolm Melville
Malcolm Melville was a son of American novelist Herman Melville and his wife Elizabeth Shaw Melville.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American military family
ⓘ
person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| field | naval warfare ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Bruce R. Ingersoll
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Royal E. Ingersoll NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal R. Ingersoll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
United States Navy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
admiral
ⓘ
rear admiral ⓘ rear admiral ⓘ |
| notableFor | producing multiple high-ranking U.S. Navy officers ⓘ |
| occupation |
United States Navy officer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Navy officer ⓘ United States Navy officer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ingersoll naval family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ingersoll naval family NERFINISHED ⓘ Ingersoll naval family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
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: Ingersoll naval family Description of subject: The Ingersoll naval family is a prominent American lineage known for producing multiple high-ranking U.S. Navy officers across several generations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Royal E. Ingersoll