David Porter Jr.
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David Porter Jr. was the son of U.S. naval officer David Porter, likely associated with the prominent Porter naval family of the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Porter Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8475279 — 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: David Porter Jr. Context triple: [David Porter, relative, David Porter Jr.]
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A.
Chris Porter
Chris Porter is a music producer best known for his work on the hit song "Back for Good" by Take That.
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B.
John Porter
John Porter is a British record producer and musician best known for his work on influential blues and rock albums.
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C.
Scott Porter
Scott Porter is an American actor best known for his roles on television series such as "Friday Night Lights" and "Hart of Dixie."
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D.
Porter Alexander
Porter Alexander was a prominent Confederate artillery officer and military engineer during the American Civil War, known for his crucial role in major battles such as Gettysburg and Fredericksburg.
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E.
Ben Porterfield
Ben Porterfield is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the business intelligence and data analytics company Looker.
- 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: David Porter Jr. Target entity description: David Porter Jr. was the son of U.S. naval officer David Porter, likely associated with the prominent Porter naval family of the early 19th century.
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A.
Chris Porter
Chris Porter is a music producer best known for his work on the hit song "Back for Good" by Take That.
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B.
John Porter
John Porter is a British record producer and musician best known for his work on influential blues and rock albums.
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C.
Scott Porter
Scott Porter is an American actor best known for his roles on television series such as "Friday Night Lights" and "Hart of Dixie."
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D.
Porter Alexander
Porter Alexander was a prominent Confederate artillery officer and military engineer during the American Civil War, known for his crucial role in major battles such as Gettysburg and Fredericksburg.
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E.
Ben Porterfield
Ben Porterfield is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the business intelligence and data analytics company Looker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| activeDuringCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Porter ⓘ |
| father | David Porter ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| memberOf | Porter naval family ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection | son of U.S. naval officer David Porter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: David Porter Jr. Description of subject: David Porter Jr. was the son of U.S. naval officer David Porter, likely associated with the prominent Porter naval family of the early 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Commodore David Porter