Samuel Cornish
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Samuel Cornish was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and admiral noted for his role in major naval operations during the Seven Years' War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Cornish canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T447732 — 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: Samuel Cornish Context triple: [Siege of Manila (1762), commander, Samuel Cornish]
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A.
Sydney Howard Gay
Sydney Howard Gay was a 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and editor known for his work on the Underground Railroad and his leadership at the National Anti-Slavery Standard.
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B.
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer best known for founding and editing the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator and advocating immediate emancipation.
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C.
Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
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D.
Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and orator known for his powerful speeches against slavery and advocacy for social reform.
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E.
Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker was a prominent 19th-century American transcendentalist minister and social reformer known for his influential abolitionist and progressive theological views.
- 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: Samuel Cornish Target entity description: Samuel Cornish was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and admiral noted for his role in major naval operations during the Seven Years' War.
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A.
Sydney Howard Gay
Sydney Howard Gay was a 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and editor known for his work on the Underground Railroad and his leadership at the National Anti-Slavery Standard.
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B.
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer best known for founding and editing the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator and advocating immediate emancipation.
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C.
Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
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D.
Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and orator known for his powerful speeches against slavery and advocacy for social reform.
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E.
Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker was a prominent 19th-century American transcendentalist minister and social reformer known for his influential abolitionist and progressive theological views.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British admiral
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Royal Navy officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| conflict | Seven Years' War ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in major naval operations during the Seven Years' War ⓘ |
| occupation |
admiral
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naval officer ⓘ |
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: Samuel Cornish Description of subject: Samuel Cornish was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and admiral noted for his role in major naval operations during the Seven Years' War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.