John Mercer Brooke
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John Mercer Brooke was a 19th-century American naval officer and inventor best known for his work in naval ordnance and for designing the ironclad warship CSS Virginia for the Confederate States Navy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Mercer Brooke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6195428 — 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.
Target entity: John Mercer Brooke Context triple: [Confederate States Navy, notableCommander, John Mercer Brooke]
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Peter Bent Brigham
Peter Bent Brigham was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of a major Boston teaching hospital that later became part of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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John Herndon Mercer
John Herndon Mercer was a renowned American lyricist, songwriter, and singer who co-founded Capitol Records and wrote numerous popular standards of the Great American Songbook.
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Edward Everett Horton
Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor and comedian best known for his droll, fussy persona in classic Hollywood films and early television.
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D.
Charles Goodell
Charles Goodell was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from New York who was appointed to the Senate after Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination and later became known for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
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E.
Francis Newton Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John Mercer Brooke Target entity description: John Mercer Brooke was a 19th-century American naval officer and inventor best known for his work in naval ordnance and for designing the ironclad warship CSS Virginia for the Confederate States Navy.
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A.
Peter Bent Brigham
Peter Bent Brigham was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of a major Boston teaching hospital that later became part of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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B.
John Herndon Mercer
John Herndon Mercer was a renowned American lyricist, songwriter, and singer who co-founded Capitol Records and wrote numerous popular standards of the Great American Songbook.
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C.
Edward Everett Horton
Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor and comedian best known for his droll, fussy persona in classic Hollywood films and early television.
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D.
Charles Goodell
Charles Goodell was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from New York who was appointed to the Senate after Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination and later became known for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
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E.
Francis Newton Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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naval officer ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Confederate States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Confederate naval technology
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ironclad warship design ⓘ naval gunnery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| designed |
CSS Virginia
NERFINISHED
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Confederate ironclad warships ⓘ |
| developed |
Brooke rifle
NERFINISHED
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deep-sea sounding apparatus used for Atlantic cable surveys ⓘ |
| employer |
Confederate States Navy
NERFINISHED
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United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia Military Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Brooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
naval engineering
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naval ordnance ⓘ oceanography ⓘ |
| givenName |
John
NERFINISHED
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Mercer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
designing the ironclad CSS Virginia
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developing a deep-sea sounding device ⓘ developing rifled naval guns for the Confederacy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Confederate States Navy
NERFINISHED
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United States Navy ⓘ |
| name | John Mercer Brooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | contributed to laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable through sounding work ⓘ |
| notableWork |
design of the ironclad warship CSS Virginia
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development of naval ordnance for the Confederate States Navy ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
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engineer ⓘ inventor ⓘ naval officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor at Virginia Military Institute ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: John Mercer Brooke Description of subject: John Mercer Brooke was a 19th-century American naval officer and inventor best known for his work in naval ordnance and for designing the ironclad warship CSS Virginia for the Confederate States Navy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.