Lieutenant Demons
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Lieutenant Demons is a naval officer known for having been prosecuted as a member of the crew of the ship S.S. Lotus in a notable maritime legal case.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lieutenant Demons canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10259459 — 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: Lieutenant Demons Context triple: [S.S. Lotus, crewMemberProsecuted, Lieutenant Demons]
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A.
Sergeant Hatred
Sergeant Hatred is a recurring character in the animated series "The Venture Bros.," known as a reformed supervillain who becomes the Ventures’ overzealous, emotionally unstable bodyguard.
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B.
The Ghost Brigades
The Ghost Brigades is a military science fiction novel by John Scalzi set in his Old Man's War universe, focusing on elite special forces soldiers grown from the DNA of the dead.
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C.
The Smiling Lieutenant
The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, celebrated for its sophisticated humor, romantic entanglements, and early use of the “Lubitsch Touch.”
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D.
The Sergeant
The Sergeant is a 1968 drama film starring Rod Steiger as a rigid Army noncommissioned officer grappling with repressed homosexuality and inner turmoil.
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E.
Army of Ghosts
Army of Ghosts is a 2006 Doctor Who television episode featuring the Tenth Doctor, notable for the dramatic return of the Cybermen and its role as the first part of a two-part series finale.
- 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: Lieutenant Demons Target entity description: Lieutenant Demons is a naval officer known for having been prosecuted as a member of the crew of the ship S.S. Lotus in a notable maritime legal case.
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A.
Sergeant Hatred
Sergeant Hatred is a recurring character in the animated series "The Venture Bros.," known as a reformed supervillain who becomes the Ventures’ overzealous, emotionally unstable bodyguard.
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B.
The Ghost Brigades
The Ghost Brigades is a military science fiction novel by John Scalzi set in his Old Man's War universe, focusing on elite special forces soldiers grown from the DNA of the dead.
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C.
The Smiling Lieutenant
The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, celebrated for its sophisticated humor, romantic entanglements, and early use of the “Lubitsch Touch.”
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D.
The Sergeant
The Sergeant is a 1968 drama film starring Rod Steiger as a rigid Army noncommissioned officer grappling with repressed homosexuality and inner turmoil.
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E.
Army of Ghosts
Army of Ghosts is a 2006 Doctor Who television episode featuring the Tenth Doctor, notable for the dramatic return of the Cybermen and its role as the first part of a two-part series finale.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | naval officer ⓘ |
| associatedWithLegalField |
international law
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law of the sea ⓘ |
| associatedWithLegalPrinciple |
flag state jurisdiction on the high seas
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permissive principle of international law (Lotus principle) ⓘ |
| charge | manslaughter under Turkish law ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1926 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| legalStatusInTurkey | criminal defendant ⓘ |
| memberOf | crew of the S.S. Lotus ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Navy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being central to the Permanent Court of International Justice Lotus judgment
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being prosecuted by Turkish authorities after the S.S. Lotus collision ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Lotus case
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S.S. Lotus maritime incident ⓘ collision between S.S. Lotus and S.S. Boz-Kourt ⓘ |
| placeOfEvent |
high seas
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north of Mytilene, Aegean Sea ⓘ |
| positionHeld | officer on board the S.S. Lotus ⓘ |
| prosecutedBy | Turkey ⓘ |
| representedState | France ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Lotus (France v. Turkey) judgment of the Permanent Court of International Justice ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| vesselInvolved |
S.S. Boz-Kourt
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S.S. Lotus ⓘ |
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: Lieutenant Demons Description of subject: Lieutenant Demons is a naval officer known for having been prosecuted as a member of the crew of the ship S.S. Lotus in a notable maritime legal case.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Permanent Court of International Justice decision in the Lotus case
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involvedPerson
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