Jeremiah O’Brien
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Jeremiah O’Brien was an American Revolutionary War naval captain from Maine who led one of the first naval engagements against the British at the Battle of Machias in 1775.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeremiah O’Brien canonical | 4 |
| Jeremiah O'Brien | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T776044 — 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: Jeremiah O’Brien Context triple: [SS Jeremiah O’Brien, namedAfter, Jeremiah O’Brien]
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A.
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones was a renowned American Revolutionary War naval commander often called the "Father of the U.S. Navy" for his daring sea victories against the British.
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B.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
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C.
Fletcher
Fletcher is a surname of English origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as the military, politics, arts, and sports.
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D.
Mark Hampton
Mark Hampton is a British hairstylist and groomer known for his work in fashion and entertainment and for being married to actress Christina Ricci.
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E.
Stephen Decatur
Stephen Decatur was a celebrated early 19th-century United States naval officer renowned for his daring exploits and heroism in multiple conflicts, including the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812.
- 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: Jeremiah O’Brien Target entity description: Jeremiah O’Brien was an American Revolutionary War naval captain from Maine who led one of the first naval engagements against the British at the Battle of Machias in 1775.
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A.
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones was a renowned American Revolutionary War naval commander often called the "Father of the U.S. Navy" for his daring sea victories against the British.
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B.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
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C.
Fletcher
Fletcher is a surname of English origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as the military, politics, arts, and sports.
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D.
Mark Hampton
Mark Hampton is a British hairstylist and groomer known for his work in fashion and entertainment and for being married to actress Christina Ricci.
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E.
Stephen Decatur
Stephen Decatur was a celebrated early 19th-century United States naval officer renowned for his daring exploits and heroism in multiple conflicts, including the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Revolutionary War figure
ⓘ
naval captain ⓘ person ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
SS Jeremiah O’Brien
ⓘ
surface form:
USNS Jeremiah O’Brien
historical markers in Machias, Maine ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName |
O'Brien
ⓘ
surface form:
O’Brien
|
| givenName | Jeremiah ⓘ |
| hasLegacy | recognized as an early American naval hero ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | early American naval history ⓘ |
| hasRelative | O’Brien family of Machias, Maine ⓘ |
| influenced | development of American naval tradition ⓘ |
| led | American colonial naval forces at the Battle of Machias ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Navy ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Battle of Machias ⓘ |
| notableFor |
capturing the British schooner Margaretta at Machias
ⓘ
leading one of the first American naval engagements of the Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| notableWork | Battle of Machias ⓘ |
| occupation |
privateer
ⓘ
sea captain ⓘ |
| opponent | Great Britain ⓘ |
| partOf | Patriot cause in the American Revolution ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Machias, Maine
ⓘ
Maine ⓘ |
| residence | Maine ⓘ |
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: Jeremiah O’Brien Description of subject: Jeremiah O’Brien was an American Revolutionary War naval captain from Maine who led one of the first naval engagements against the British at the Battle of Machias in 1775.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS O'Brien (DD-415)
this entity surface form:
Jeremiah O'Brien
subject surface form:
USS O’Brien (DD-415)