Elrey Borge Jeppesen
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Elrey Borge Jeppesen was an American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur best known for creating the first standardized aeronautical navigation charts and founding the company that became a global leader in flight information services.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elrey Borge Jeppesen canonical | 4 |
| Elrey B. Jeppesen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1001465 — 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.
Target entity: Elrey Borge Jeppesen Context triple: [Jeppesen, foundedBy, Elrey Borge Jeppesen]
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Wilfrid Kent Hughes
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William E. Boeing
William E. Boeing was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded the Boeing Company, which became one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers.
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Michael Sidney Luft
Michael Sidney Luft was an American show business figure best known as a film producer and the third husband and manager of entertainer Judy Garland.
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Land Morrow Lindbergh
Land Morrow Lindbergh is one of the sons of famed American aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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C. R. Smith
C. R. Smith was a pioneering American airline executive who transformed American Airlines into a major global carrier and helped shape the modern commercial aviation industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Elrey Borge Jeppesen Target entity description: Elrey Borge Jeppesen was an American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur best known for creating the first standardized aeronautical navigation charts and founding the company that became a global leader in flight information services.
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A.
Wilfrid Kent Hughes
Wilfrid Kent Hughes was an Australian politician and sports administrator who played a leading role in organizing the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.
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B.
William E. Boeing
William E. Boeing was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded the Boeing Company, which became one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers.
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C.
Michael Sidney Luft
Michael Sidney Luft was an American show business figure best known as a film producer and the third husband and manager of entertainer Judy Garland.
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D.
Land Morrow Lindbergh
Land Morrow Lindbergh is one of the sons of famed American aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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E.
C. R. Smith
C. R. Smith was a pioneering American airline executive who transformed American Airlines into a major global carrier and helped shape the modern commercial aviation industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aviation pioneer
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aviator ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1907-01-28 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Lake Charles
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surface form:
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
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| burialPlace |
Colorado
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surface form:
Colorado, United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1996-11-26 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Denver, Colorado, United States ⓘ |
| developed |
standardized instrument approach charts
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systematic airway manuals for pilots ⓘ |
| employer |
Boeing Air Transport
ⓘ
United Airlines ⓘ |
| familyName | Jeppesen ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautical navigation
ⓘ
aviation ⓘ |
| founded |
Jeppesen
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surface form:
Jeppesen & Co.
Jeppesen ⓘ
surface form:
Jeppesen company
|
| fullName | Elrey Borge Jeppesen self-link ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Elrey ⓘ |
| hasCompanyNamedAfter | Jeppesen ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Norwegian descent ⓘ |
| hasLegacy | Jeppesen charts used by airlines worldwide ⓘ |
| industry | aeronautical information services ⓘ |
| inspired | global standards for flight information services ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating standardized aeronautical navigation charts
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founding Jeppesen company ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nickname | Jepp ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | pioneered commercial use of instrument flight charts ⓘ |
| notableFor | improving flight safety through navigation data ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Jeppesen
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surface form:
Jeppesen Airway Manual
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| occupation |
businessperson
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cartographer ⓘ pilot ⓘ |
| residence | Denver, Colorado, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Nadine Jeppesen ⓘ |
| workedAs |
airmail pilot
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barnstorming pilot ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Elrey Borge Jeppesen Description of subject: Elrey Borge Jeppesen was an American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur best known for creating the first standardized aeronautical navigation charts and founding the company that became a global leader in flight information services.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.