Silas Talbot
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Silas Talbot was an American naval officer and privateer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and later commanded U.S. naval forces in the early national period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silas Talbot canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3155353 — 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: Silas Talbot Context triple: [Quasi-War, hasCommander, Silas Talbot]
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A.
Lyle Talbot
Lyle Talbot was an American actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, including roles in both major studio productions and low-budget cult classics.
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B.
Charles Lanyon
Charles Lanyon was a prominent 19th-century Irish architect known for designing many notable public buildings in Belfast and across Ulster.
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C.
Silas Stone
Silas Stone is a scientist in DC Comics, best known as the father of Victor Stone (Cyborg) and a supporting character in Justice League stories.
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D.
Marion Ravenwood
Marion Ravenwood is a tough, resourceful bar owner and adventurer best known as Indiana Jones’s spirited love interest and partner in the Indiana Jones film series.
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E.
Walter Varney
Walter Varney was an early American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur who founded airlines that later evolved into major U.S. carriers such as United Airlines and Continental Airlines.
- 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: Silas Talbot Target entity description: Silas Talbot was an American naval officer and privateer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and later commanded U.S. naval forces in the early national period.
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A.
Lyle Talbot
Lyle Talbot was an American actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, including roles in both major studio productions and low-budget cult classics.
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B.
Charles Lanyon
Charles Lanyon was a prominent 19th-century Irish architect known for designing many notable public buildings in Belfast and across Ulster.
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C.
Silas Stone
Silas Stone is a scientist in DC Comics, best known as the father of Victor Stone (Cyborg) and a supporting character in Justice League stories.
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D.
Marion Ravenwood
Marion Ravenwood is a tough, resourceful bar owner and adventurer best known as Indiana Jones’s spirited love interest and partner in the Indiana Jones film series.
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E.
Walter Varney
Walter Varney was an early American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur who founded airlines that later evolved into major U.S. carriers such as United Airlines and Continental Airlines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Continental Navy officer
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United States Navy officer ⓘ human ⓘ naval officer ⓘ privateer ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Continental Congress
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Dighton, Province of Massachusetts Bay
ⓘ
Massachusetts ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1751-01-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1813-06-30 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Federalists
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surface form:
Federalist Party
United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Continental Army
ⓘ
Continental Navy ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
captain
ⓘ
colonel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command of the frigate USS Constitution
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commanding U.S. naval forces in the early national period ⓘ service as a privateer during the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Continental Army officer turned naval commander
ⓘ
early commander in the United States Navy ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of USS Constitution ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
naval officer ⓘ privateer ⓘ |
| politicalOfficeEnd | 1795 ⓘ |
| politicalOfficeStart | 1793 ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States Representative
ⓘ
commander of USS Constitution ⓘ |
| represented | New York ⓘ |
| residence | New York ⓘ |
| serviceEnd | early 19th century ⓘ |
| serviceStart | American Revolutionary War era ⓘ |
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: Silas Talbot Description of subject: Silas Talbot was an American naval officer and privateer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and later commanded U.S. naval forces in the early national period.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.