Robert Heriot Barclay
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Robert Heriot Barclay was a British Royal Navy officer best known for leading the outnumbered British squadron against Oliver Hazard Perry’s forces during the War of 1812.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Heriot Barclay canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2327929 — 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: Robert Heriot Barclay Context triple: [Battle of Lake Erie, commander, Robert Heriot Barclay]
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A.
Sir Malcolm Murray
Sir Malcolm Murray is a fictional Victorian-era explorer and aristocrat who serves as a central character in the horror drama television series "Penny Dreadful."
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B.
Archibald Clive Irvine
Archibald Clive Irvine is a notable individual recognized for bearing the given name Clive.
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C.
Alan Lennox-Boyd
Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
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D.
Robert Cameron
Robert Cameron was a land developer and philanthropist after whom the community of Cameron Park, California, is named.
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E.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
- 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: Robert Heriot Barclay Target entity description: Robert Heriot Barclay was a British Royal Navy officer best known for leading the outnumbered British squadron against Oliver Hazard Perry’s forces during the War of 1812.
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A.
Sir Malcolm Murray
Sir Malcolm Murray is a fictional Victorian-era explorer and aristocrat who serves as a central character in the horror drama television series "Penny Dreadful."
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B.
Archibald Clive Irvine
Archibald Clive Irvine is a notable individual recognized for bearing the given name Clive.
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C.
Alan Lennox-Boyd
Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
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D.
Robert Cameron
Robert Cameron was a land developer and philanthropist after whom the community of Cameron Park, California, is named.
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E.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| allegiance | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of Lake Erie ⓘ |
| conflict | War of 1812 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era |
Napoleonic Wars
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surface form:
Napoleonic Wars era
War of 1812 era ⓘ |
| familyName | Barclay ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | commanded British naval forces in a key engagement on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | commander ⓘ |
| militaryRole | squadron commander ⓘ |
| name | Robert Heriot Barclay self-link ⓘ |
| notableEvent | defeat at the Battle of Lake Erie ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding an outnumbered British squadron on Lake Erie
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opposing Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| opponent | Oliver Hazard Perry ⓘ |
| serviceNumberOfYears | early 19th century ⓘ |
| side | British side in the War of 1812 ⓘ |
| theatreOfOperations |
Great Lakes
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Lake Erie ⓘ |
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: Robert Heriot Barclay Description of subject: Robert Heriot Barclay was a British Royal Navy officer best known for leading the outnumbered British squadron against Oliver Hazard Perry’s forces during the War of 1812.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.