James Lawrence
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James Lawrence was a U.S. naval officer and War of 1812 hero best known for his dying command, "Don't give up the ship."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Lawrence canonical | 34 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1025404 — 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: James Lawrence Context triple: [Lawrence County, namedAfter, James Lawrence]
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A.
Charles Devens
Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
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B.
William H. Melville
William H. Melville was a notable figure in the field recognized by the Melville Medal, an award established in his honor for distinguished contributions.
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C.
William Howe Crane
William Howe Crane was an American lawyer and the older brother of author Stephen Crane, known for his legal career and support of his sibling's literary pursuits.
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D.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
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E.
Jeremiah O’Brien
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.
- 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: James Lawrence Target entity description: James Lawrence was a U.S. naval officer and War of 1812 hero best known for his dying command, "Don't give up the ship."
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A.
Charles Devens
Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
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B.
William H. Melville
William H. Melville was a notable figure in the field recognized by the Melville Medal, an award established in his honor for distinguished contributions.
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C.
William Howe Crane
William Howe Crane was an American lawyer and the older brother of author Stephen Crane, known for his legal career and support of his sibling's literary pursuits.
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D.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
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E.
Jeremiah O’Brien
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: James Lawrence Description of subject: James Lawrence was a U.S. naval officer and War of 1812 hero best known for his dying command, "Don't give up the ship."
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
brig Lawrence
subject linked to:
Lawrence County
subject linked to:
Lawrence County
subject linked to:
Lawrenceville
subject linked to:
“Don’t give up the ship”
subject linked to:
“Preble’s Boys” (group of officers he mentored)
subject linked to:
Lawrence County
subject linked to:
Commodore Edward Preble