Semmes
E516900
Semmes is a surname most notably associated with Raphael Semmes, a Confederate naval officer and captain of the commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Semmes canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5403926 — 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: Semmes Context triple: [Raphael Semmes, familyName, Semmes]
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A.
Gombauld
Gombauld is a modernist painter and one of the central, satirically portrayed guests at the country-house gathering in Aldous Huxley’s novel "Crome Yellow."
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B.
Martis
Martis is a small town and comune in the Gallura region of northern Sardinia, Italy.
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C.
Sauvestre
Sauvestre is a French surname most notably associated with architect Stephen Sauvestre, who contributed to the design of the Eiffel Tower.
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D.
Bressan
Bressan is the demonym for inhabitants of the French town of Bourg-en-Bresse and its surrounding region.
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E.
Regardie
Regardie is the surname of Israel Regardie, a prominent 20th-century occultist and author associated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
- 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: Semmes Target entity description: Semmes is a surname most notably associated with Raphael Semmes, a Confederate naval officer and captain of the commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War.
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A.
Gombauld
Gombauld is a modernist painter and one of the central, satirically portrayed guests at the country-house gathering in Aldous Huxley’s novel "Crome Yellow."
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B.
Martis
Martis is a small town and comune in the Gallura region of northern Sardinia, Italy.
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C.
Sauvestre
Sauvestre is a French surname most notably associated with architect Stephen Sauvestre, who contributed to the design of the Eiffel Tower.
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D.
Bressan
Bressan is the demonym for inhabitants of the French town of Bourg-en-Bresse and its surrounding region.
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E.
Regardie
Regardie is the surname of Israel Regardie, a prominent 20th-century occultist and author associated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commerce raider
ⓘ
commerce raider captain ⓘ naval officer ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1809 ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| deathYear | 1877 ⓘ |
| familyName | Semmes ⓘ |
| givenName | Raphael ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Raphael Semmes ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Simms
ⓘ
Sims ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| laterWork | judge ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Navy ⓘ |
| navalForce | Confederate States Navy ⓘ |
| notableCommander | Raphael Semmes ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding the CSS Alabama ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ naval officer ⓘ |
| rank |
Captain
ⓘ
Rear admiral ⓘ |
| shipCommanded |
CSS Alabama
ⓘ
CSS Sumter ⓘ |
| usedAs | last name ⓘ |
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: Semmes Description of subject: Semmes is a surname most notably associated with Raphael Semmes, a Confederate naval officer and captain of the commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.