Jack Aubrey
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Jack Aubrey is a fictional early 19th-century Royal Navy captain created by Patrick O'Brian, renowned for his daring sea command and close friendship with ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin in the Aubrey–Maturin series.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Aubrey canonical | 75 |
| Captain Jack Aubrey | 5 |
| Jack Aubrey is a Royal Navy officer | 1 |
| Jack Aubrey – Royal Navy post-captain | 1 |
| fictional character Jack Aubrey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1207679 — 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: Jack Aubrey Context triple: [Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, mainCharacter, Jack Aubrey]
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A.
Henry Hornblower II
Henry Hornblower II was an American investment banker and philanthropist best known for creating the living history museum now known as Plimoth Patuxet Museums in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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B.
Admiral Edward Vernon
Admiral Edward Vernon was an 18th-century British naval officer whose military fame led George Washington’s family to name their Virginia estate, Mount Vernon, in his honor.
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C.
Captain Smollett
Captain Smollett is the strict but honorable sea captain who commands the Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
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D.
Horatio Nelson
Horatio Nelson was a renowned British admiral celebrated for his decisive naval victories against France and his leadership during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Alexander Cochrane
Alexander Cochrane was a British Royal Navy admiral who led naval operations against the United States during the War of 1812, including the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Baltimore.
- 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: Jack Aubrey Target entity description: Jack Aubrey is a fictional early 19th-century Royal Navy captain created by Patrick O'Brian, renowned for his daring sea command and close friendship with ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin in the Aubrey–Maturin series.
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A.
Henry Hornblower II
Henry Hornblower II was an American investment banker and philanthropist best known for creating the living history museum now known as Plimoth Patuxet Museums in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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B.
Admiral Edward Vernon
Admiral Edward Vernon was an 18th-century British naval officer whose military fame led George Washington’s family to name their Virginia estate, Mount Vernon, in his honor.
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C.
Captain Smollett
Captain Smollett is the strict but honorable sea captain who commands the Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
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D.
Horatio Nelson
Horatio Nelson was a renowned British admiral celebrated for his decisive naval victories against France and his leadership during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Alexander Cochrane
Alexander Cochrane was a British Royal Navy admiral who led naval operations against the United States during the War of 1812, including the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Baltimore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Jack Aubrey Description of subject: Jack Aubrey is a fictional early 19th-century Royal Navy captain created by Patrick O'Brian, renowned for his daring sea command and close friendship with ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin in the Aubrey–Maturin series.
Referenced by (83)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Captain Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
linked to: Jack Aubrey
subject linked to:
The Surgeon’s Mate
subject linked to:
The Surgeon’s Mate
linked to: Jack Aubrey
subject linked to:
French privateer Acheron