Corporal Frank S. Scott
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Corporal Frank S. Scott was a U.S. Army aviation mechanic recognized as the first enlisted airman to die in an aircraft accident, for whom Scott Air Force Base is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Corporal Frank S. Scott canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5251905 — 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: Corporal Frank S. Scott Context triple: [Scott Air Force Base, namedAfter, Corporal Frank S. Scott]
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A.
Corporal Henderson
Corporal Henderson is a fictional military character typically depicted as a low-ranking non-commissioned officer, often used as a generic or placeholder name in stories or examples.
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B.
Lance Cpl. Harold W. Dawson
Lance Cpl. Harold W. Dawson is a fictional U.S. Marine on trial for his role in a fellow Marine’s death in the military courtroom drama film "A Few Good Men."
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C.
Sergeant Thomas Durrant
Sergeant Thomas Durrant was a British Army non-commissioned officer of the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his extraordinary bravery during the St Nazaire raid in 1942.
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D.
Lance-Corporal James Welch
Lance-Corporal James Welch was a British Army soldier and First World War Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his conspicuous bravery in combat.
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E.
Sergeant Milton Warden
Sergeant Milton Warden is a tough, capable career soldier and central figure in James Jones's novel "From Here to Eternity," known for his conflicted sense of duty and his illicit love affair with his commanding officer’s wife.
- 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: Corporal Frank S. Scott Target entity description: Corporal Frank S. Scott was a U.S. Army aviation mechanic recognized as the first enlisted airman to die in an aircraft accident, for whom Scott Air Force Base is named.
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A.
Corporal Henderson
Corporal Henderson is a fictional military character typically depicted as a low-ranking non-commissioned officer, often used as a generic or placeholder name in stories or examples.
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B.
Lance Cpl. Harold W. Dawson
Lance Cpl. Harold W. Dawson is a fictional U.S. Marine on trial for his role in a fellow Marine’s death in the military courtroom drama film "A Few Good Men."
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C.
Sergeant Thomas Durrant
Sergeant Thomas Durrant was a British Army non-commissioned officer of the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his extraordinary bravery during the St Nazaire raid in 1942.
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D.
Lance-Corporal James Welch
Lance-Corporal James Welch was a British Army soldier and First World War Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his conspicuous bravery in combat.
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E.
Sergeant Milton Warden
Sergeant Milton Warden is a tough, capable career soldier and central figure in James Jones's novel "From Here to Eternity," known for his conflicted sense of duty and his illicit love affair with his commanding officer’s wife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Army soldier
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United States Air Force base ⓘ aviation mechanic ⓘ human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | aircraft accident ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Army ⓘ |
| familyName | Scott ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military aviation maintenance ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank ⓘ |
| hasHonor | namesake of Scott Air Force Base ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
U.S. Army
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Army
|
| militaryRank | Corporal ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Corporal Frank S. Scott ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first recorded death of an enlisted U.S. airman in an aircraft accident ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first enlisted U.S. airman to die in an aircraft accident ⓘ |
| occupation | aviation mechanic ⓘ |
| partOf | early U.S. military aviation history ⓘ |
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: Corporal Frank S. Scott Description of subject: Corporal Frank S. Scott was a U.S. Army aviation mechanic recognized as the first enlisted airman to die in an aircraft accident, for whom Scott Air Force Base is named.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.