Major Dana H. Crissy
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Major Dana H. Crissy was a U.S. Army aviator and early military pilot commemorated for his service and contributions to American military aviation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major Dana H. Crissy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3542251 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Dana H. Crissy Context triple: [Crissy Army Airfield, namedAfter, Major Dana H. Crissy]
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A.
Captain Thomas Lathrop
Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
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B.
Charles Dwight Sigsbee
Charles Dwight Sigsbee was a United States Navy rear admiral best known as the captain of the USS Maine when it exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898, an event that helped trigger the Spanish–American War.
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C.
Commandant William Ward Burrows
Commandant William Ward Burrows was the second Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, noted for shaping the early Corps’ organization and establishing key institutions in its formative years.
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D.
Captain Benjamin L. Willard
Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the introspective and morally conflicted U.S. Army officer sent on a covert mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
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E.
Captain Frederick C. Bock
Captain Frederick C. Bock was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II best known for commanding the B-29 bomber that conducted instrumentation and observation duties during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
- 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: Major Dana H. Crissy Target entity description: Major Dana H. Crissy was a U.S. Army aviator and early military pilot commemorated for his service and contributions to American military aviation.
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A.
Captain Thomas Lathrop
Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
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B.
Charles Dwight Sigsbee
Charles Dwight Sigsbee was a United States Navy rear admiral best known as the captain of the USS Maine when it exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898, an event that helped trigger the Spanish–American War.
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C.
Commandant William Ward Burrows
Commandant William Ward Burrows was the second Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, noted for shaping the early Corps’ organization and establishing key institutions in its formative years.
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D.
Captain Benjamin L. Willard
Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the introspective and morally conflicted U.S. Army officer sent on a covert mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
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E.
Captain Frederick C. Bock
Captain Frederick C. Bock was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II best known for commanding the B-29 bomber that conducted instrumentation and observation duties during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Army officer
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airfield ⓘ aviator ⓘ human ⓘ military pilot ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | Crissy Field ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military aviation ⓘ |
| genre | aviation pioneer ⓘ |
| givenName | Dana ⓘ |
| hasHonor | military commemoration at Crissy Field ⓘ |
| hasRank | Major ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Major ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
San Francisco
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surface form:
San Francisco, California
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| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Dana H. Crissy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to American military aviation
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early American military aviation ⓘ service as a U.S. Army aviator ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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pilot ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. Army aviation history ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Major Dana H. Crissy Description of subject: Major Dana H. Crissy was a U.S. Army aviator and early military pilot commemorated for his service and contributions to American military aviation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.