Pringle Stokes
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Pringle Stokes was a British Royal Navy officer best known as the first commander of HMS Beagle during its early surveying voyages in the 1820s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pringle Stokes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11584256 — 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: Pringle Stokes Context triple: [HMS Beagle, captain, Pringle Stokes]
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A.
Pringle Richards Sharratt
Pringle Richards Sharratt is a British architectural practice known for designing prominent cultural and public buildings, including museums and galleries.
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B.
Jean Ainslie
Jean Ainslie was the wife of Scottish poet and translator Douglas Ainslie, known primarily through her association with his literary and social circle.
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C.
Jan Stirling
Jan Stirling is a prominent Australian basketball coach best known for leading the Opals to multiple international medals, including a World Championship and Olympic podium finishes.
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D.
Athole Stewart
Athole Stewart was a British stage and film actor active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in both theatre and cinema.
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E.
Lawrie McNeilly
Lawrie McNeilly is a person after whom Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson, the son of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was partly named.
- 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: Pringle Stokes Target entity description: Pringle Stokes was a British Royal Navy officer best known as the first commander of HMS Beagle during its early surveying voyages in the 1820s.
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A.
Pringle Richards Sharratt
Pringle Richards Sharratt is a British architectural practice known for designing prominent cultural and public buildings, including museums and galleries.
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B.
Jean Ainslie
Jean Ainslie was the wife of Scottish poet and translator Douglas Ainslie, known primarily through her association with his literary and social circle.
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C.
Jan Stirling
Jan Stirling is a prominent Australian basketball coach best known for leading the Opals to multiple international medals, including a World Championship and Olympic podium finishes.
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D.
Athole Stewart
Athole Stewart was a British stage and film actor active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in both theatre and cinema.
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E.
Lawrie McNeilly
Lawrie McNeilly is a person after whom Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson, the son of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was partly named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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Royal Navy officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndTime | 1828 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartTime | early 19th century ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Port Famine
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Puerto del Hambre ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1828 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Strait of Magellan ⓘ |
| employer |
British Royal Navy
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Navy
|
| era |
Age of Sail
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Georgian era ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
hydrographic surveying
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naval exploration ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the first commander of HMS Beagle
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surveying voyages in South America ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Commander ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork | early surveying voyages of HMS Beagle in the 1820s ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Beagle survey expeditions
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linked to:
HMS Beagle second survey expedition
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| placeOfDeath | Strait of Magellan ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander of HMS Beagle ⓘ |
| shipCommanded | HMS Beagle ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
commanded HMS Beagle on its first surveying voyage
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participated in early 1820s surveys of the coasts of South America ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Pringle Stokes Description of subject: Pringle Stokes was a British Royal Navy officer best known as the first commander of HMS Beagle during its early surveying voyages in the 1820s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.