Chesley Sullenberger

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United States Air Force veteran airline pilot author aviation safety expert human public speaker

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is an American airline pilot and safety expert best known for successfully landing US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2009, saving all 155 people on board.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Chesley Sullenberger canonical	4
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger	2
Chesley B. Sullenberger III	2
Chesley B. Sullenberger	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2900769 — 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: Chesley Sullenberger
Context triple: [Sully, basedOnAuthor, Chesley Sullenberger]

A. Victor C. Swearingen
Victor C. Swearingen was an American judge who served on the U.S. military tribunal that prosecuted Nazi physicians for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the post–World War II Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg.
B. David Neeleman
David Neeleman is a Brazilian-American airline entrepreneur best known for founding JetBlue Airways and several other low-cost carriers.
C. Michael Sidney Luft
Michael Sidney Luft was an American show business figure best known as a film producer and the third husband and manager of entertainer Judy Garland.
D. Reeve Lindbergh
Reeve Lindbergh is an American author and poet known for her memoirs and children's books, and as the daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
E. Herb Kelleher
Herb Kelleher was an American entrepreneur and lawyer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Southwest Airlines, where he pioneered low-cost, customer-friendly air travel.
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: Chesley Sullenberger
Target entity description: Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is an American airline pilot and safety expert best known for successfully landing US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2009, saving all 155 people on board.

A. Victor C. Swearingen
Victor C. Swearingen was an American judge who served on the U.S. military tribunal that prosecuted Nazi physicians for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the post–World War II Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg.
B. David Neeleman
David Neeleman is a Brazilian-American airline entrepreneur best known for founding JetBlue Airways and several other low-cost carriers.
C. Michael Sidney Luft
Michael Sidney Luft was an American show business figure best known as a film producer and the third husband and manager of entertainer Judy Garland.
D. Reeve Lindbergh
Reeve Lindbergh is an American author and poet known for her memoirs and children's books, and as the daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
E. Herb Kelleher
Herb Kelleher was an American entrepreneur and lawyer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Southwest Airlines, where he pioneered low-cost, customer-friendly air travel.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Air Force veteran ⓘ airline pilot ⓘ author ⓘ aviation safety expert ⓘ human ⓘ public speaker ⓘ
aircraftFlown	Airbus A320 ⓘ linked to: Airbus A320-200
appointedBy	Joe Biden ⓘ
authorOf	Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters ⓘ Making a Difference: Stories of Vision and Courage from America’s Leaders ⓘ
awardReceived	French Legion of Honour ⓘ linked to: Légion d'honneur Key to the City of New York ⓘ Master’s Medal of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators ⓘ Tony Jannus Award ⓘ
causeOfFame	bird-strike-induced dual engine failure emergency landing on Hudson River in 2009 ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
coWorker	Jeffrey Skiles ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1951-01-23 ⓘ
educatedAt	Purdue University ⓘ United States Air Force Academy ⓘ University of Northern Colorado ⓘ
employer	US Airways ⓘ
familyName	Sullenberger ⓘ linked to: Sully
fieldOfWork	airline operations ⓘ aviation safety ⓘ
givenName	Chesley ⓘ
hasChild	Kate Sullenberger ⓘ Kelly Sullenberger ⓘ linked to: Lorrie Sullenberger
hasHonoraryDegree	honorary degree from the University of South Carolina ⓘ honorary doctorate from Purdue University ⓘ
knownFor	successful ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River ⓘ
memberOf	US Airways Flight 1549 cockpit crew ⓘ linked to: US Airways Flight 1549
militaryBranch	United States Air Force ⓘ
militaryRank	captain ⓘ
nickname	Sully ⓘ
notableEvent	emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 ⓘ
notableWork	US Airways Flight 1549 ditching on the Hudson River ⓘ linked to: US Airways Flight 1549
numberOfPeopleSaved	155 ⓘ
occupation	airline pilot ⓘ author ⓘ aviation safety consultant ⓘ public speaker ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Denison, Texas, United States ⓘ
portrayedBy	Tom Hanks ⓘ
positionHeld	U.S. Ambassador to the International Civil Aviation Organization ⓘ linked to: United States Mission to the International Civil Aviation Organization chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association’s Accident Investigation Committee (past) ⓘ
residence	Danville, California, United States ⓘ linked to: Danville, California
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spouse	Lorrie Sullenberger ⓘ
subjectOf	film "Sully" ⓘ linked to: Sully

How these facts were elicited