Clapper
E295787
Clapper is the surname of James R. Clapper, the former U.S. Director of National Intelligence and retired Air Force lieutenant general.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clapper canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2756059 — 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: Clapper Context triple: [James R. Clapper, familyName, Clapper]
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A.
Mullen
Mullen is the surname of Larry Mullen Jr., the Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the rock band U2.
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B.
Seale
Seale is a surname most notably associated with Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party and prominent figure in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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C.
Chamberlain
Chamberlain is a surname most famously associated with Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister known for his policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany before World War II.
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D.
Tedder
Tedder is a surname most notably associated with Arthur Tedder, a senior British Royal Air Force commander and Marshal of the Royal Air Force during World War II.
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E.
Fisher
Fisher is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as economics, politics, entertainment, and sports.
- 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: Clapper Target entity description: Clapper is the surname of James R. Clapper, the former U.S. Director of National Intelligence and retired Air Force lieutenant general.
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A.
Mullen
Mullen is the surname of Larry Mullen Jr., the Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the rock band U2.
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B.
Seale
Seale is a surname most notably associated with Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party and prominent figure in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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C.
Chamberlain
Chamberlain is a surname most famously associated with Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister known for his policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany before World War II.
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D.
Tedder
Tedder is a surname most notably associated with Arthur Tedder, a senior British Royal Air Force commander and Marshal of the Royal Air Force during World War II.
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E.
Fisher
Fisher is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as economics, politics, entertainment, and sports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Air Force general
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ intelligence official ⓘ military officer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
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United States Air Force ⓘ |
| familyName | Clapper ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military intelligence
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national security ⓘ signals intelligence ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lieutenant general ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as U.S. Director of National Intelligence ⓘ |
| occupation |
intelligence officer
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military officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Director of National Intelligence ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedBy | James R. Clapper ⓘ |
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: Clapper Description of subject: Clapper is the surname of James R. Clapper, the former U.S. Director of National Intelligence and retired Air Force lieutenant general.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Clapper