James Coey
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James Coey was a United States Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for his valor during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Coey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10978831 — 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: James Coey Context triple: [Mare Island Naval Cemetery, hasGraveOf, James Coey]
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A.
Michael L. Coats
Michael L. Coats is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and later served as director of the Johnson Space Center.
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B.
Bruce Hough
Bruce Hough is an American businessman and political figure best known as the father of professional dancer and actress Julianne Hough.
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C.
Richard Feetham
Richard Feetham was a South African lawyer, judge, and politician known for his role in constitutional and municipal reform in South Africa and other parts of the British Empire.
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D.
Stephen Barncard
Stephen Barncard is an American record producer and engineer best known for his work on landmark albums by artists such as the Grateful Dead and David Crosby in the early 1970s.
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E.
Sean S. Cunningham
Sean S. Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the influential horror classic "Friday the 13th."
- 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: James Coey Target entity description: James Coey was a United States Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for his valor during the American Civil War.
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A.
Michael L. Coats
Michael L. Coats is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and later served as director of the Johnson Space Center.
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B.
Bruce Hough
Bruce Hough is an American businessman and political figure best known as the father of professional dancer and actress Julianne Hough.
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C.
Richard Feetham
Richard Feetham was a South African lawyer, judge, and politician known for his role in constitutional and municipal reform in South Africa and other parts of the British Empire.
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D.
Stephen Barncard
Stephen Barncard is an American record producer and engineer best known for his work on landmark albums by artists such as the Grateful Dead and David Crosby in the early 1970s.
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E.
Sean S. Cunningham
Sean S. Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the influential horror classic "Friday the 13th."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Medal of Honor recipient
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United States Army officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Medal of Honor ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Coey ⓘ |
| genreOfRecognition | military valor ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasHonor | Medal of Honor ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableFor | valor during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Civil War ⓘ |
| serviceTo | United States of America ⓘ |
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: James Coey Description of subject: James Coey was a United States Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for his valor during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.