Sloat
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Sloat is a surname most notably associated with John D. Sloat, a U.S. naval officer who played a key role in the American acquisition of California during the Mexican–American War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sloat canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11805323 — 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: Sloat Context triple: [John D. Sloat, familyName, Sloat]
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A.
Flattop Jones
Flattop Jones is a notorious contract killer and one of Dick Tracy’s most iconic and visually distinctive comic-strip villains, known for his flat, plate-like head and ruthless criminal schemes.
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B.
Roughlee
Roughlee is a small rural village in Lancashire, England, known for its scenic countryside setting within the Borough of Pendle and its associations with the Pendle witch trials.
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C.
Hooper
Hooper is a 1978 action-comedy film starring Burt Reynolds as an aging Hollywood stuntman facing the limits of his dangerous profession.
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D.
Hooper
Hooper is a surname most notably associated with Harry Hooper, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball right fielder from the early 20th century.
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E.
Hooper
Hooper was a renowned British coachbuilding firm celebrated for crafting bespoke luxury car bodies for marques such as Bentley and Rolls-Royce.
- 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: Sloat Target entity description: Sloat is a surname most notably associated with John D. Sloat, a U.S. naval officer who played a key role in the American acquisition of California during the Mexican–American War.
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A.
Flattop Jones
Flattop Jones is a notorious contract killer and one of Dick Tracy’s most iconic and visually distinctive comic-strip villains, known for his flat, plate-like head and ruthless criminal schemes.
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B.
Roughlee
Roughlee is a small rural village in Lancashire, England, known for its scenic countryside setting within the Borough of Pendle and its associations with the Pendle witch trials.
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C.
Hooper
Hooper is a 1978 action-comedy film starring Burt Reynolds as an aging Hollywood stuntman facing the limits of his dangerous profession.
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D.
Hooper
Hooper is a surname most notably associated with Harry Hooper, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball right fielder from the early 20th century.
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E.
Hooper
Hooper was a renowned British coachbuilding firm celebrated for crafting bespoke luxury car bodies for marques such as Bentley and Rolls-Royce.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy officer
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family name ⓘ hamlet ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ street ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Sodus Point, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| deathPlace | New Brighton, Staten Island, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Arthur Sloat
NERFINISHED
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John D. Sloat NERFINISHED ⓘ John Sloat Fass NERFINISHED ⓘ Sloat B. Fassett NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Sloat NERFINISHED ⓘ Warren Sloat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasToponymicUse |
Sloat Boulevard
NERFINISHED
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Sloat, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
San Francisco, California
NERFINISHED
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Town of Tuxedo, Orange County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | commodore ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John D. Sloat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
raising the U.S. flag in Monterey, California
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role in American acquisition of California ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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book designer ⓘ children's book author ⓘ illustrator ⓘ naval officer ⓘ politician ⓘ politician ⓘ printer ⓘ typographer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Squadron
NERFINISHED
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United States Representative from New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn | English language ⓘ |
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: Sloat Description of subject: Sloat is a surname most notably associated with John D. Sloat, a U.S. naval officer who played a key role in the American acquisition of California during the Mexican–American War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.