William Bligh
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William Bligh was a British naval officer and navigator best known as the captain during the infamous mutiny on the HMS Bounty.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Bligh canonical | 7 |
| Captain William Bligh | 3 |
| Bligh | 1 |
| Lieutenant William Bligh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1996337 — 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: William Bligh Context triple: [Third voyage of James Cook, includedPerson, William Bligh]
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A.
Woodes Rogers
Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain and privateer who became famous for his circumnavigation of the globe and later served as the first royal governor of the Bahamas, where he worked to suppress piracy.
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B.
William Hobson
William Hobson was a British naval officer and the first Governor of New Zealand, best known for overseeing and signing the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
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C.
Anthony van Diemen
Anthony van Diemen was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator best known for expanding Dutch influence in Asia and for lending his name to Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania.
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D.
Governor Edward John Eyre
Governor Edward John Eyre was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known for his brutal suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica, which sparked major controversy and debate over imperial governance and human rights.
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E.
James Cook
James Cook was an 18th-century British naval captain and explorer renowned for his three Pacific voyages that mapped previously uncharted regions including Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
- 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: William Bligh Target entity description: William Bligh was a British naval officer and navigator best known as the captain during the infamous mutiny on the HMS Bounty.
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A.
Woodes Rogers
Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain and privateer who became famous for his circumnavigation of the globe and later served as the first royal governor of the Bahamas, where he worked to suppress piracy.
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B.
William Hobson
William Hobson was a British naval officer and the first Governor of New Zealand, best known for overseeing and signing the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
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C.
Anthony van Diemen
Anthony van Diemen was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator best known for expanding Dutch influence in Asia and for lending his name to Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania.
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D.
Governor Edward John Eyre
Governor Edward John Eyre was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known for his brutal suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica, which sparked major controversy and debate over imperial governance and human rights.
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E.
James Cook
James Cook was an 18th-century British naval captain and explorer renowned for his three Pacific voyages that mapped previously uncharted regions including Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: William Bligh Description of subject: William Bligh was a British naval officer and navigator best known as the captain during the infamous mutiny on the HMS Bounty.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)
this entity surface form:
Captain William Bligh
this entity surface form:
Captain William Bligh
this entity surface form:
Bligh
this entity surface form:
Captain William Bligh
this entity surface form:
Lieutenant William Bligh