General Aubrey
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General Aubrey is the distinguished and often overbearing father of Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical novel series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| General Aubrey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6246996 — 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: General Aubrey Context triple: [Jack Aubrey, father, General Aubrey]
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A.
Captain Joseph Calloway Lea
Captain Joseph Calloway Lea was a prominent early settler and influential figure in southeastern New Mexico whose leadership and contributions to the region led to a county being named in his honor.
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B.
Admiral James Buck
Admiral James Buck was a United States Navy flag officer honored for his service by having the destroyer USS Buck (DD-420) named after him.
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C.
Major James Abbott
Major James Abbott was a 19th-century British army officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing and giving his name to the city of Abbottabad in present-day Pakistan.
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D.
Marshal Tallard
Marshal Tallard was a French general and marshal of France best known for commanding French forces and being captured during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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E.
Colonel Smith
Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
- 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: General Aubrey Target entity description: General Aubrey is the distinguished and often overbearing father of Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical novel series.
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A.
Captain Joseph Calloway Lea
Captain Joseph Calloway Lea was a prominent early settler and influential figure in southeastern New Mexico whose leadership and contributions to the region led to a county being named in his honor.
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B.
Admiral James Buck
Admiral James Buck was a United States Navy flag officer honored for his service by having the destroyer USS Buck (DD-420) named after him.
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C.
Major James Abbott
Major James Abbott was a 19th-century British army officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing and giving his name to the city of Abbottabad in present-day Pakistan.
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D.
Marshal Tallard
Marshal Tallard was a French general and marshal of France best known for commanding French forces and being captured during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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E.
Colonel Smith
Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army general
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fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Aubrey–Maturin series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
distinguished
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overbearing ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Patrick O’Brian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Aubrey–Maturin universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInWork | an Aubrey–Maturin novel by Patrick O’Brian ⓘ |
| genre | historical novel ⓘ |
| hasChild | Jack Aubrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFather | General Aubrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Aubrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | father of Jack Aubrey ⓘ |
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: General Aubrey Description of subject: General Aubrey is the distinguished and often overbearing father of Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical novel series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.