Richard Pearson
E167485
Richard Pearson was a British naval officer best known for commanding HMS Serapis in its famous 1779 engagement against John Paul Jones during the Battle of Flamborough Head.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Pearson canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T552605 — 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: Richard Pearson Context triple: [Battle of Flamborough Head, commander, Richard Pearson]
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A.
Robert Barker
Robert Barker was a 17th-century English royal printer best known for printing the first edition of the King James Bible.
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B.
David Richmond
David Richmond was a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American students who initiated the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
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C.
Robert Hepburn
Robert Hepburn was the brother of acclaimed American actress Katharine Hepburn and a member of the prominent Hepburn family.
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D.
Roger de Kirkpatrick
Roger de Kirkpatrick was a medieval Scottish nobleman and knight, remembered as a prominent member of Clan Kirkpatrick and associate of Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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E.
John Parry
John Parry is a former NFL official who served as the head referee in multiple Super Bowls and was known for his long career in professional football officiating.
- 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: Richard Pearson Target entity description: Richard Pearson was a British naval officer best known for commanding HMS Serapis in its famous 1779 engagement against John Paul Jones during the Battle of Flamborough Head.
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A.
Robert Barker
Robert Barker was a 17th-century English royal printer best known for printing the first edition of the King James Bible.
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B.
David Richmond
David Richmond was a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American students who initiated the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
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C.
Robert Hepburn
Robert Hepburn was the brother of acclaimed American actress Katharine Hepburn and a member of the prominent Hepburn family.
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D.
Roger de Kirkpatrick
Roger de Kirkpatrick was a medieval Scottish nobleman and knight, remembered as a prominent member of Clan Kirkpatrick and associate of Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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E.
John Parry
John Parry is a former NFL official who served as the head referee in multiple Super Bowls and was known for his long career in professional football officiating.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy officer
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Royal Navy warship ⓘ naval battle ⓘ naval officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| awardReceived | knighthood ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability | command of HMS Serapis against John Paul Jones in 1779 ⓘ |
| commanded | HMS Serapis ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1731 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1806 ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| notableEngagement | Battle of Flamborough Head ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Battle of Flamborough Head ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of HMS Serapis ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| opponent | John Paul Jones ⓘ |
| opponentVessel | Bonhomme Richard ⓘ |
| partOf | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | England ⓘ |
| pointInTime | 1779 ⓘ |
| shipCapturedByEnemy | HMS Serapis ⓘ |
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: Richard Pearson Description of subject: Richard Pearson was a British naval officer best known for commanding HMS Serapis in its famous 1779 engagement against John Paul Jones during the Battle of Flamborough Head.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.