Roswell Hawkes Lamson
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Roswell Hawkes Lamson was a distinguished United States Navy officer who served with notable bravery during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roswell Hawkes Lamson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13024677 — 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: Roswell Hawkes Lamson Context triple: [USS Lamson, namedAfter, Roswell Hawkes Lamson]
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A.
Roswell Smith
Roswell Smith was a 19th-century American publisher and businessman best known as a co-founder of The Century Company, which produced the influential magazine "The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine."
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B.
Jonathan Hensleigh
Jonathan Hensleigh is an American screenwriter and film director known for his work on action films such as "Die Hard with a Vengeance" and "The Punisher."
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C.
Pierce Hawthorne
Pierce Hawthorne is a wealthy, bigoted, and often clueless older student at Greendale Community College in the sitcom "Community," known for his inappropriate remarks and strained relationships with the study group.
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D.
Roswell Neale
Roswell Neale was a member of the Neale family, known primarily as a sibling of early American Catholic bishop Leonard Neale.
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E.
Benjamin Hurwood
Benjamin Hurwood is a sinister 18th-century English physician-turned-necromancer in Tim Powers’ fantasy novel "On Stranger Tides," obsessed with harnessing dark magic and the power of the Fountain of Youth.
- 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: Roswell Hawkes Lamson Target entity description: Roswell Hawkes Lamson was a distinguished United States Navy officer who served with notable bravery during the American Civil War.
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A.
Roswell Smith
Roswell Smith was a 19th-century American publisher and businessman best known as a co-founder of The Century Company, which produced the influential magazine "The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine."
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B.
Jonathan Hensleigh
Jonathan Hensleigh is an American screenwriter and film director known for his work on action films such as "Die Hard with a Vengeance" and "The Punisher."
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C.
Pierce Hawthorne
Pierce Hawthorne is a wealthy, bigoted, and often clueless older student at Greendale Community College in the sitcom "Community," known for his inappropriate remarks and strained relationships with the study group.
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D.
Roswell Neale
Roswell Neale was a member of the Neale family, known primarily as a sibling of early American Catholic bishop Leonard Neale.
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E.
Benjamin Hurwood
Benjamin Hurwood is a sinister 18th-century English physician-turned-necromancer in Tim Powers’ fantasy novel "On Stranger Tides," obsessed with harnessing dark magic and the power of the Fountain of Youth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy officer
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human ⓘ military personnel ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource | United States Civil War naval histories ⓘ |
| employer | United States Navy ⓘ |
| familyName | Lamson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | military history ⓘ |
| givenName | Roswell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Hawkes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
bravery in combat
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distinguished service ⓘ |
| notableFor | service in the Union Navy during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableRole | Union naval officer in the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | American Civil War era ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
military
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naval warfare ⓘ |
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: Roswell Hawkes Lamson Description of subject: Roswell Hawkes Lamson was a distinguished United States Navy officer who served with notable bravery during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.