Charles Stewart
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Charles Stewart was a distinguished early 19th-century United States Navy officer and War of 1812 hero who later rose to the rank of commodore.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Stewart canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7840292 — 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: Charles Stewart Context triple: [USS Guerriere, commandedBy, Charles Stewart]
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A.
Charles Scott
Charles Scott was an American Revolutionary War general and the fourth governor of Kentucky, remembered as a prominent early political and military leader in the state’s history.
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B.
William Mackenzie
William Mackenzie was a prominent Canadian railway entrepreneur and financier best known for co-founding and expanding the Canadian Northern Railway in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
William Mackenzie
William Mackenzie is a Canadian businessman best known as a co-founder of the global alternative asset management firm Brookfield Asset Management.
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D.
Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mountstuart Elphinstone was a prominent early 19th-century British colonial administrator and historian noted for his influential role in governing and reforming British India.
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E.
John Erskine
John Erskine was an American educator, author, and musician best known for pioneering the Great Books movement and promoting liberal arts education in the early 20th 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: Charles Stewart Target entity description: Charles Stewart was a distinguished early 19th-century United States Navy officer and War of 1812 hero who later rose to the rank of commodore.
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A.
Charles Scott
Charles Scott was an American Revolutionary War general and the fourth governor of Kentucky, remembered as a prominent early political and military leader in the state’s history.
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B.
William Mackenzie
William Mackenzie was a prominent Canadian railway entrepreneur and financier best known for co-founding and expanding the Canadian Northern Railway in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
William Mackenzie
William Mackenzie is a Canadian businessman best known as a co-founder of the global alternative asset management firm Brookfield Asset Management.
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D.
Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mountstuart Elphinstone was a prominent early 19th-century British colonial administrator and historian noted for his influential role in governing and reforming British India.
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E.
John Erskine
John Erskine was an American educator, author, and musician best known for pioneering the Great Books movement and promoting liberal arts education in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Charles Stewart Description of subject: Charles Stewart was a distinguished early 19th-century United States Navy officer and War of 1812 hero who later rose to the rank of commodore.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
US destroyer Stewart
Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Cyane and HMS Levant
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UnitedStatesCommander
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Charles Stewart
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subject linked to:
“Preble’s Boys” (group of officers he mentored)
subject linked to:
Commodore Edward Preble