Second Lieutenant Carl Spencer Mather
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Second Lieutenant Carl Spencer Mather was a U.S. military officer commemorated for his service by having Mather Airport named in his honor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Second Lieutenant Carl Spencer Mather canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11626545 — 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: Second Lieutenant Carl Spencer Mather Context triple: [Mather Airport, namedAfter, Second Lieutenant Carl Spencer Mather]
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A.
Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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B.
Second Lieutenant Benjamin Ralph Kimlau
Second Lieutenant Benjamin Ralph Kimlau was a Chinese American World War II aviator in the U.S. Army Air Forces who became a symbol of Asian American military service and sacrifice.
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C.
2nd Lt. Merle Wye
2nd Lt. Merle Wye is a fictional junior Army officer who serves as the central character in the military comedy film "The Horizontal Lieutenant."
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D.
First Lieutenant Edward Theller
First Lieutenant Edward Theller was a U.S. Army officer known for his role in the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops during the Battle of White Bird Canyon in 1877.
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E.
First Lieutenant William R. Parnell
First Lieutenant William R. Parnell was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership during the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops in key engagements such as the Battle of White Bird Canyon.
- 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: Second Lieutenant Carl Spencer Mather Target entity description: Second Lieutenant Carl Spencer Mather was a U.S. military officer commemorated for his service by having Mather Airport named in his honor.
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A.
Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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B.
Second Lieutenant Benjamin Ralph Kimlau
Second Lieutenant Benjamin Ralph Kimlau was a Chinese American World War II aviator in the U.S. Army Air Forces who became a symbol of Asian American military service and sacrifice.
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C.
2nd Lt. Merle Wye
2nd Lt. Merle Wye is a fictional junior Army officer who serves as the central character in the military comedy film "The Horizontal Lieutenant."
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D.
First Lieutenant Edward Theller
First Lieutenant Edward Theller was a U.S. Army officer known for his role in the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops during the Battle of White Bird Canyon in 1877.
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E.
First Lieutenant William R. Parnell
First Lieutenant William R. Parnell was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership during the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops in key engagements such as the Battle of White Bird Canyon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. military officer
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human ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | Mather Airport ⓘ |
| countryOfService |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| familyName | Mather ⓘ |
| givenName | Carl ⓘ |
| hasNameInCommonWith | Mather Airport ⓘ |
| honoredBy | Mather Airport ⓘ |
| middleName | Spencer ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
United States military
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Armed Forces
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| militaryRank | Second Lieutenant ⓘ |
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: Second Lieutenant Carl Spencer Mather Description of subject: Second Lieutenant Carl Spencer Mather was a U.S. military officer commemorated for his service by having Mather Airport named in his honor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.