Raphael Semmes
E120845
Raphael Semmes was a Confederate naval officer best known as the captain of the commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Raphael Semmes canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1050999 — 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: Raphael Semmes Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, notableNavalCommander, Raphael Semmes]
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A.
Admiral David Farragut
Admiral David Farragut was a renowned U.S. Navy officer during the American Civil War, best known for his decisive victory at the Battle of Mobile Bay and his famous command, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”
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B.
William T. Sampson
William T. Sampson was a United States Navy admiral best known for leading American naval forces during the Spanish–American War, particularly in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
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C.
Thomas Macdonough
Thomas Macdonough was a United States Navy officer best known for his decisive victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.
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D.
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.
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E.
William Schley
William Schley was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Georgia and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- 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: Raphael Semmes Target entity description: Raphael Semmes was a Confederate naval officer best known as the captain of the commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War.
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A.
Admiral David Farragut
Admiral David Farragut was a renowned U.S. Navy officer during the American Civil War, best known for his decisive victory at the Battle of Mobile Bay and his famous command, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”
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B.
William T. Sampson
William T. Sampson was a United States Navy admiral best known for leading American naval forces during the Spanish–American War, particularly in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
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C.
Thomas Macdonough
Thomas Macdonough was a United States Navy officer best known for his decisive victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.
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D.
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.
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E.
William Schley
William Schley was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Georgia and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Raphael Semmes Description of subject: Raphael Semmes was a Confederate naval officer best known as the captain of the commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.