James Sullivan
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James Sullivan was the brother of famed teacher Annie Sullivan, known primarily through biographical accounts of her life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James P. Sullivan | 1 |
| James Sullivan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13075373 — 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: James Sullivan Context triple: [Annie Sullivan, sibling, James Sullivan]
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A.
James Sullivan
James Sullivan was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as Governor of Massachusetts in the early 19th century.
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B.
James Edward Sullivan
James Edward Sullivan was an influential early 20th-century American sports official and administrator who helped shape amateur athletics in the United States.
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C.
James Patrick Sullivan
James Patrick Sullivan is the large blue-furred, horned monster known as "Sulley," one of the main characters in Pixar's animated film "Monsters, Inc."
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D.
Joseph "Joe" Sullivan
Joseph "Joe" Sullivan, better known as Sky Captain, is the heroic, ace pilot protagonist who leads daring aerial missions to protect the world in the retro-futuristic film "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."
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E.
George Sullivan
George Sullivan was one of the five Sullivan brothers from Iowa who all served together in the U.S. Navy during World War II and were killed in action when the USS Juneau (CL-52) was sunk.
- 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: James Sullivan Target entity description: James Sullivan was the brother of famed teacher Annie Sullivan, known primarily through biographical accounts of her life.
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A.
James Sullivan
James Sullivan was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as Governor of Massachusetts in the early 19th century.
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B.
James Edward Sullivan
James Edward Sullivan was an influential early 20th-century American sports official and administrator who helped shape amateur athletics in the United States.
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C.
James Patrick Sullivan
James Patrick Sullivan is the large blue-furred, horned monster known as "Sulley," one of the main characters in Pixar's animated film "Monsters, Inc."
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D.
Joseph "Joe" Sullivan
Joseph "Joe" Sullivan, better known as Sky Captain, is the heroic, ace pilot protagonist who leads daring aerial missions to protect the world in the retro-futuristic film "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."
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E.
George Sullivan
George Sullivan was one of the five Sullivan brothers from Iowa who all served together in the U.S. Navy during World War II and were killed in action when the USS Juneau (CL-52) was sunk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| ethnicOrigin | Irish-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| lifeEvent |
experienced poverty in childhood
ⓘ
lived in Massachusetts ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | biographical accounts of Anne Sullivan ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the brother of Anne Sullivan ⓘ |
| relative | Anne Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Anne Sullivan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: James Sullivan Description of subject: James Sullivan was the brother of famed teacher Annie Sullivan, known primarily through biographical accounts of her life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James P. Sullivan