Oliver Hazard Perry
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Oliver Hazard Perry was a U.S. naval officer famed for his decisive victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Oliver Hazard Perry canonical | 42 |
| Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry | 4 |
| Oliver Hazard Perry commanded the American squadron | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T227010 — 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: Oliver Hazard Perry Context triple: [War of 1812, notableCommander, Oliver Hazard Perry]
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A.
Admiral Wesley L. McDonald
Admiral Wesley L. McDonald was a United States Navy four-star admiral who served as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command and the U.S. Atlantic Fleet during the early 1980s.
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B.
Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III
Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III was a senior U.S. Navy officer best known for leading the American invasion of Grenada in 1983 and for his influential roles in modernizing naval warfare and joint operations.
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C.
Frank Jack Fletcher
Frank Jack Fletcher was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II who played a key leadership role in early Pacific carrier battles, including the Coral Sea and Midway campaigns.
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D.
Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen Sr.
Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen Sr. was a U.S. Navy officer and engineer who played a key role in advancing naval research and technology, particularly during World War II.
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E.
William T. Sampson
William T. Sampson was a United States Navy admiral best known for leading American naval forces during the Spanish–American War, particularly in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
- 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: Oliver Hazard Perry Target entity description: Oliver Hazard Perry was a U.S. naval officer famed for his decisive victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
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A.
Admiral Wesley L. McDonald
Admiral Wesley L. McDonald was a United States Navy four-star admiral who served as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command and the U.S. Atlantic Fleet during the early 1980s.
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B.
Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III
Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III was a senior U.S. Navy officer best known for leading the American invasion of Grenada in 1983 and for his influential roles in modernizing naval warfare and joint operations.
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C.
Frank Jack Fletcher
Frank Jack Fletcher was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II who played a key leadership role in early Pacific carrier battles, including the Coral Sea and Midway campaigns.
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D.
Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen Sr.
Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen Sr. was a U.S. Navy officer and engineer who played a key role in advancing naval research and technology, particularly during World War II.
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E.
William T. Sampson
William T. Sampson was a United States Navy admiral best known for leading American naval forces during the Spanish–American War, particularly in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
- 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: Oliver Hazard Perry Description of subject: Oliver Hazard Perry was a U.S. naval officer famed for his decisive victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Oliver Hazard Perry commanded the American squadron
subject surface form:
Battle of Lake Erie
subject surface form:
Brig Lawrence
subject surface form:
Brig Lawrence
this entity surface form:
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
subject surface form:
Perry County, Alabama
this entity surface form:
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
subject surface form:
Robert Heriot Barclay
this entity surface form:
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
this entity surface form:
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry