Charles Green
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Charles Green was an 18th-century English astronomer who sailed with Captain James Cook to observe the 1769 transit of Venus and conduct astronomical measurements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Green canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1960318 — 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: Charles Green Context triple: [First voyage of James Cook, crewMember, Charles Green]
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A.
Charles Foster
Charles Foster is one of the children of acclaimed American actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster.
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B.
Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis was a 19th-century Texas statesman best known for presiding over the convention that declared Texas’ independence from Mexico.
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C.
Paul Bacon
Paul Bacon was an influential American graphic designer and illustrator renowned for pioneering the "big book" cover style for major 20th-century novels and jazz albums.
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D.
Erle Galbraith
Erle Galbraith was the fourth wife of famed American singer and entertainer Al Jolson.
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E.
Graham Carr
Graham Carr is a Canadian academic and administrator who serves as the president of Concordia University in Montreal.
- 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: Charles Green Target entity description: Charles Green was an 18th-century English astronomer who sailed with Captain James Cook to observe the 1769 transit of Venus and conduct astronomical measurements.
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A.
Charles Foster
Charles Foster is one of the children of acclaimed American actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster.
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B.
Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis was a 19th-century Texas statesman best known for presiding over the convention that declared Texas’ independence from Mexico.
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C.
Paul Bacon
Paul Bacon was an influential American graphic designer and illustrator renowned for pioneering the "big book" cover style for major 20th-century novels and jazz albums.
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D.
Erle Galbraith
Erle Galbraith was the fourth wife of famed American singer and entertainer Al Jolson.
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E.
Graham Carr
Graham Carr is a Canadian academic and administrator who serves as the president of Concordia University in Montreal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th-century astronomer
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astronomer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
James Cook
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Royal Society-appointed observers ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Royal Society ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| employer |
Royal Greenwich Observatory
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linked to:
Royal Observatory, Greenwich
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| era | Georgian era ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | astronomy ⓘ |
| goalOfObservations |
improving the measurement of the astronomical unit
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refining the scale of the solar system ⓘ |
| knownFor |
astronomical measurements during James Cook’s first Pacific voyage
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observations of the 1769 transit of Venus ⓘ |
| name | Charles Green ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableObservationSite | Tahiti ⓘ |
| observedEvent | Transit of Venus of 1769 ⓘ |
| occupation | astronomer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Pacific Ocean
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Tahiti ⓘ |
| positionHeld | assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory ⓘ |
| purposeOfVoyage |
conducting astronomical measurements in the Pacific
ⓘ
observation of the 1769 transit of Venus ⓘ |
| shipSailedOn | HMS Endeavour ⓘ |
| traveledWith | James Cook ⓘ |
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: Charles Green Description of subject: Charles Green was an 18th-century English astronomer who sailed with Captain James Cook to observe the 1769 transit of Venus and conduct astronomical measurements.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.