Stephen Maturin
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Royal Navy surgeon
fictional character
intelligence agent
literary character
naturalist
physician
spy
surgeon
Stephen Maturin is a physician, naturalist, and intelligence agent in the early 19th century Royal Navy, best known as one of the two central protagonists in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical novel series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stephen Maturin canonical | 11 |
| Dr. Stephen Maturin | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1207680 — 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: Stephen Maturin Context triple: [Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, mainCharacter, Stephen Maturin]
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A.
Charles Maturin
Charles Maturin was an Irish Protestant clergyman and early 19th-century novelist best known for his influential Gothic novel "Melmoth the Wanderer."
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B.
Henry Markham
Henry Markham was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of California from 1891 to 1895.
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C.
Edward Williams
Edward Williams was a British composer best known for his innovative electronic and orchestral scores for film and television, including the natural history series "Life on Earth."
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D.
Edward Williams
Edward Williams was a 19th-century figure involved in the drafting of New Zealand’s foundational Treaty of Waitangi between the British Crown and Māori chiefs.
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E.
Francis Beaufort
Francis Beaufort was a 19th-century Irish hydrographer and Royal Navy officer best known for devising the Beaufort scale for measuring wind force.
- 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: Stephen Maturin Target entity description: Stephen Maturin is a physician, naturalist, and intelligence agent in the early 19th century Royal Navy, best known as one of the two central protagonists in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical novel series.
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A.
Charles Maturin
Charles Maturin was an Irish Protestant clergyman and early 19th-century novelist best known for his influential Gothic novel "Melmoth the Wanderer."
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B.
Henry Markham
Henry Markham was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of California from 1891 to 1895.
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C.
Edward Williams
Edward Williams was a British composer best known for his innovative electronic and orchestral scores for film and television, including the natural history series "Life on Earth."
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D.
Edward Williams
Edward Williams was a 19th-century figure involved in the drafting of New Zealand’s foundational Treaty of Waitangi between the British Crown and Māori chiefs.
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E.
Francis Beaufort
Francis Beaufort was a 19th-century Irish hydrographer and Royal Navy officer best known for devising the Beaufort scale for measuring wind force.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
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: Stephen Maturin Description of subject: Stephen Maturin is a physician, naturalist, and intelligence agent in the early 19th century Royal Navy, best known as one of the two central protagonists in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical novel series.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Captain Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
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subject surface form:
Captain Jack Aubrey
this entity surface form:
Dr. Stephen Maturin
this entity surface form:
Dr. Stephen Maturin