James Bradley
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James Bradley is an American author best known for writing the World War II history book "Flags of Our Fathers," which chronicles the lives of the U.S. Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima.
All labels observed (1)
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| James Bradley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5084564 — 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: James Bradley Context triple: [Flags of Our Fathers, basedOnAuthor, James Bradley]
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James Bradley
James Bradley was an 18th-century English astronomer best known for discovering the aberration of starlight and providing strong evidence for the Earth's motion around the Sun.
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John Flamsteed
John Flamsteed was a 17th–18th century English astronomer best known as the first Astronomer Royal and for his foundational star cataloguing work.
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Edmund Halley
Edmund Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician best known for calculating the orbit of the periodic comet that now bears his name, Halley’s Comet.
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Charles Clerke
Charles Clerke was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for serving under James Cook on all three of Cook’s Pacific voyages and ultimately commanding the final expedition after Cook’s death.
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E.
Francis Baily
Francis Baily was a prominent 19th-century English astronomer best known for his detailed observations of solar eclipses, including the phenomenon now called "Baily's beads."
- 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: James Bradley Target entity description: James Bradley is an American author best known for writing the World War II history book "Flags of Our Fathers," which chronicles the lives of the U.S. Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima.
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A.
James Bradley
James Bradley was an 18th-century English astronomer best known for discovering the aberration of starlight and providing strong evidence for the Earth's motion around the Sun.
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B.
John Flamsteed
John Flamsteed was a 17th–18th century English astronomer best known as the first Astronomer Royal and for his foundational star cataloguing work.
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C.
Edmund Halley
Edmund Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician best known for calculating the orbit of the periodic comet that now bears his name, Halley’s Comet.
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D.
Charles Clerke
Charles Clerke was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for serving under James Cook on all three of Cook’s Pacific voyages and ultimately commanding the final expedition after Cook’s death.
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E.
Francis Baily
Francis Baily was a prominent 19th-century English astronomer best known for his detailed observations of solar eclipses, including the phenomenon now called "Baily's beads."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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human ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| author | James Bradley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnEvent | Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Notre Dame
NERFINISHED
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University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| father | John Bradley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Pacific War history
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World War II history ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
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military history ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasRelative | John Bradley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| John BradleyRole | U.S. Navy corpsman at the Battle of Iwo Jima ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
NERFINISHED
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United States Marines in World War II ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | chronicling the lives of U.S. servicemen who raised the flag on Iwo Jima ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Flags of Our Fathers
NERFINISHED
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage NERFINISHED ⓘ Imperial Cruise NERFINISHED ⓘ The China Mirage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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historian ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf | film adaptation Flags of Our Fathers ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
American foreign policy in the Pacific
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U.S.–Asia relations ⓘ U.S.–China relations ⓘ U.S.–Japan relations ⓘ |
| wrote |
Flags of Our Fathers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage NERFINISHED ⓘ The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
Battle of Iwo Jima
NERFINISHED
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United States Marine Corps in World War II ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: James Bradley Description of subject: James Bradley is an American author best known for writing the World War II history book "Flags of Our Fathers," which chronicles the lives of the U.S. Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Flags of Our Fathers