James Waddell
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James Waddell was a Confederate naval officer best known for commanding the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Waddell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6195425 — 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: James Waddell Context triple: [Confederate States Navy, notableCommander, James Waddell]
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A.
Len Williams
Len Williams was a British classical guitar teacher and promoter best known as the father and early mentor of renowned guitarist John Williams.
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B.
Charles Alverson
Charles Alverson was an American writer and editor best known for his work in speculative fiction and his collaborations with Terry Gilliam on film projects.
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C.
Willis Jackson
Willis Jackson is a central character on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," portrayed as the streetwise older brother who, along with his younger sibling Arnold, is adopted by wealthy widower Philip Drummond.
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D.
Henry Wimbush
Henry Wimbush is a fictional country-house owner and amateur historian in Aldous Huxley’s novel "Crome Yellow," known for his dry, reflective monologues and eccentric scholarly pursuits.
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E.
Kevin Willard
Kevin Willard is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Maryland men's basketball program after a successful tenure at Seton Hall.
- 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 Waddell Target entity description: James Waddell was a Confederate naval officer best known for commanding the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah during the American Civil War.
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A.
Len Williams
Len Williams was a British classical guitar teacher and promoter best known as the father and early mentor of renowned guitarist John Williams.
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B.
Charles Alverson
Charles Alverson was an American writer and editor best known for his work in speculative fiction and his collaborations with Terry Gilliam on film projects.
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C.
Willis Jackson
Willis Jackson is a central character on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," portrayed as the streetwise older brother who, along with his younger sibling Arnold, is adopted by wealthy widower Philip Drummond.
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D.
Henry Wimbush
Henry Wimbush is a fictional country-house owner and amateur historian in Aldous Huxley’s novel "Crome Yellow," known for his dry, reflective monologues and eccentric scholarly pursuits.
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E.
Kevin Willard
Kevin Willard is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Maryland men's basketball program after a successful tenure at Seton Hall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
naval officer
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person ⓘ |
| activity | commerce raiding ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Waddell ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Confederate States Navy
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| militaryRole | commerce raider commander ⓘ |
| name | James Waddell ⓘ |
| notableEvent | command of CSS Shenandoah during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| serviceDuring | American Civil War ⓘ |
| shipCommanded | CSS Shenandoah ⓘ |
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: James Waddell Description of subject: James Waddell was a Confederate naval officer best known for commanding the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.