James Nourse
E164726
James Nourse was an 18th-century British sea captain involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Nourse canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1208770 — 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 Nourse Context triple: [Nourse, hasNotableBearer, James Nourse]
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A.
Joseph W. Martin Jr.
Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Homer Brightman
Homer Brightman was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Disney animated films, including contributing to the screenplay of the 1950 feature "Cinderella."
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C.
Joseph Nourse
Joseph Nourse was the first Register of the United States Treasury, serving from 1781 to 1829 and playing a key administrative role in the early financial operations of the U.S. government.
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D.
Edward L. McDonnell
Edward L. McDonnell is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers, including the critically acclaimed crime drama "Sicario."
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E.
John Rauch
John Rauch was an American football coach best known for leading the Oakland Raiders to Super Bowl II and for his successful tenure in the American Football League.
- 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 Nourse Target entity description: James Nourse was an 18th-century British sea captain involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
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A.
Joseph W. Martin Jr.
Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Homer Brightman
Homer Brightman was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Disney animated films, including contributing to the screenplay of the 1950 feature "Cinderella."
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C.
Joseph Nourse
Joseph Nourse was the first Register of the United States Treasury, serving from 1781 to 1829 and playing a key administrative role in the early financial operations of the U.S. government.
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D.
Edward L. McDonnell
Edward L. McDonnell is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers, including the critically acclaimed crime drama "Sicario."
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E.
John Rauch
John Rauch was an American football coach best known for leading the Oakland Raiders to Super Bowl II and for his successful tenure in the American Football League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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sea captain ⓘ slave ship captain ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | British ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
maritime trade
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slave trading ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasActivityLocation |
Americas
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Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Caribbean Sea ⓘ West Africa ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Age of Sail
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British colonial era ⓘ |
| involvedIn | forced transportation of enslaved Africans ⓘ |
| moralAssessmentByModernStandards | involved in crimes against humanity ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding slave ships in the Atlantic slave trade ⓘ |
| occupation |
sea captain
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slave trader ⓘ |
| participatedIn | transatlantic slave trade ⓘ |
| partOf | British maritime commerce ⓘ |
| transported | enslaved Africans ⓘ |
| typeOfCrimeInvolved | slave trading ⓘ |
| usedShipType |
sailing ship
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slave ship ⓘ |
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 Nourse Description of subject: James Nourse was an 18th-century British sea captain involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.