Chesley Sullenberger
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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.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chesley Sullenberger canonical | 18 |
| Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger | 4 |
| Chesley B. Sullenberger III | 2 |
| Chesley B. Sullenberger | 1 |
| Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger | 1 |
| Sully 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]
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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.
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B.
David Neeleman
David Neeleman is a Brazilian-American airline entrepreneur best known for founding JetBlue Airways and several other low-cost carriers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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B.
David Neeleman
David Neeleman is a Brazilian-American airline entrepreneur best known for founding JetBlue Airways and several other low-cost carriers.
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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.
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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.
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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
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airline pilot ⓘ author ⓘ aviation safety expert ⓘ human ⓘ public speaker ⓘ |
| aircraftFlown |
Airbus A320
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linked to:
Airbus A320-200
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| appointedBy | Joe Biden ⓘ |
| authorOf |
Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters
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Making a Difference: Stories of Vision and Courage from America’s Leaders ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
French Legion of Honour
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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
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United States Air Force Academy ⓘ University of Northern Colorado ⓘ |
| employer | US Airways ⓘ |
| familyName |
Sullenberger
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linked to:
Sully
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| fieldOfWork |
airline operations
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aviation safety ⓘ |
| givenName | Chesley ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Kate Sullenberger
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Kelly Sullenberger ⓘ
linked to:
Lorrie Sullenberger
|
| hasHonoraryDegree |
honorary degree from the University of South Carolina
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honorary doctorate from Purdue University ⓘ |
| knownFor | successful ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River ⓘ |
| memberOf |
US Airways Flight 1549 cockpit crew
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linked to:
US Airways Flight 1549
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| 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
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linked to:
US Airways Flight 1549
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| numberOfPeopleSaved | 155 ⓘ |
| occupation |
airline pilot
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author ⓘ aviation safety consultant ⓘ public speaker ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Denison, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tom Hanks ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
U.S. Ambassador to the International Civil Aviation Organization
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chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association’s Accident Investigation Committee (past) ⓘ |
| residence |
Danville, California, United States
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linked to:
Danville, California
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lorrie Sullenberger ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
film "Sully"
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linked to:
Sully
|
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: Chesley Sullenberger Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Chesley Sullenberger
linked to: Chesley Sullenberger
linked to: Chesley Sullenberger
linked to: Chesley Sullenberger
subject linked to:
Jeffrey Zaslow
linked to: Chesley Sullenberger
subject linked to:
Tom Hanks (theme performer credit often parodied)
linked to: Chesley Sullenberger
linked to: Chesley Sullenberger
Making a Difference: Stories of Vision and Courage from America’s Leaders
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author
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Chesley Sullenberger
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Making a Difference: Stories of Vision and Courage from America’s Leaders
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author
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Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger
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linked to: Chesley Sullenberger
subject linked to:
"Highest Duty" by Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow
subject linked to:
"Highest Duty" by Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow
subject linked to:
"Highest Duty" by Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow
linked to: Chesley Sullenberger