Captain David Perry
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Captain David Perry was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading federal troops in the 1877 Battle of White Bird Canyon during the Nez Perce War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain David Perry canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11131606 — 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: Captain David Perry Context triple: [Battle of White Bird Canyon, commander, Captain David Perry]
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A.
Captain Daniel Gregg
Captain Daniel Gregg is the gruff yet charming sea captain whose ghost forms an unlikely, romantic bond with a young widow in the classic story "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
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B.
Captain James Deakins
Captain James Deakins is a senior NYPD officer who oversees the Major Case Squad on the television series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
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C.
Captain Len Guy
Captain Len Guy is the determined and obsessive sea captain who leads the expedition at the heart of Jules Verne’s polar adventure novel "An Antarctic Mystery."
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D.
Captain Mike Yates
Captain Mike Yates is a UNIT officer and recurring ally of the Third Doctor in the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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E.
Captain Dan Weaver
Captain Dan Weaver is a central military leader in the science fiction television series "Falling Skies," known for commanding the 2nd Massachusetts Militia Regiment in humanity’s resistance against an alien invasion.
- 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: Captain David Perry Target entity description: Captain David Perry was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading federal troops in the 1877 Battle of White Bird Canyon during the Nez Perce War.
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A.
Captain Daniel Gregg
Captain Daniel Gregg is the gruff yet charming sea captain whose ghost forms an unlikely, romantic bond with a young widow in the classic story "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
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B.
Captain James Deakins
Captain James Deakins is a senior NYPD officer who oversees the Major Case Squad on the television series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
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C.
Captain Len Guy
Captain Len Guy is the determined and obsessive sea captain who leads the expedition at the heart of Jules Verne’s polar adventure novel "An Antarctic Mystery."
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D.
Captain Mike Yates
Captain Mike Yates is a UNIT officer and recurring ally of the Third Doctor in the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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E.
Captain Dan Weaver
Captain Dan Weaver is a central military leader in the science fiction television series "Falling Skies," known for commanding the 2nd Massachusetts Militia Regiment in humanity’s resistance against an alien invasion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
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: Captain David Perry Description of subject: Captain David Perry was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading federal troops in the 1877 Battle of White Bird Canyon during the Nez Perce War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Nez Perce used superior marksmanship and knowledge of terrain
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Captain David Perry
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