Colin Goad
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Colin Goad is a British maritime administrator who served as Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization, overseeing global shipping safety and environmental standards.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colin Goad canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8956216 — 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: Colin Goad Context triple: [Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization, officeHeldBy, Colin Goad]
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A.
Ian Goble
Ian Goble is a musician best known for his role as a member of the Canadian R&B/rock band The Mynah Birds.
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B.
Colin Wolfe
Colin Wolfe is an American record producer and musician known for his work in R&B and hip-hop, including collaborations with prominent artists of the 1990s.
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C.
Christopher Gunning
Christopher Gunning was a British composer best known for his film and television scores, including the iconic theme for the detective series "Poirot."
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D.
Colin Englert
Colin Englert is an Australian filmmaker and assistant director best known for his work in film and television and for his former marriage to acclaimed director Jane Campion.
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E.
Colin Mullen
Colin Mullen is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Mullen.
- 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: Colin Goad Target entity description: Colin Goad is a British maritime administrator who served as Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization, overseeing global shipping safety and environmental standards.
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A.
Ian Goble
Ian Goble is a musician best known for his role as a member of the Canadian R&B/rock band The Mynah Birds.
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B.
Colin Wolfe
Colin Wolfe is an American record producer and musician known for his work in R&B and hip-hop, including collaborations with prominent artists of the 1990s.
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C.
Christopher Gunning
Christopher Gunning was a British composer best known for his film and television scores, including the iconic theme for the detective series "Poirot."
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D.
Colin Englert
Colin Englert is an Australian filmmaker and assistant director best known for his work in film and television and for his former marriage to acclaimed director Jane Campion.
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E.
Colin Mullen
Colin Mullen is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Mullen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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human ⓘ maritime administrator ⓘ |
| affiliation | International Maritime Organization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | International Maritime Organization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
international shipping regulation
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maritime environmental protection ⓘ maritime safety ⓘ |
| industry | maritime transport ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
overseeing environmental standards for international shipping
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overseeing global shipping safety standards ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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maritime administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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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: Colin Goad Description of subject: Colin Goad is a British maritime administrator who served as Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization, overseeing global shipping safety and environmental standards.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.