Stephen R. Mallory
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Stephen R. Mallory was an American politician who served as the Confederate States' Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stephen R. Mallory canonical | 9 |
| Stephen Mallory | 1 |
| Stephen Russell Mallory Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2884598 — 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: Stephen R. Mallory Context triple: [Confederate States Cabinet, officeHeldBy, Stephen R. Mallory]
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A.
Joshua Barney
Joshua Barney was an American naval officer and privateer who served with distinction in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
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B.
William T. Sampson
William T. Sampson was a United States Navy admiral best known for leading American naval forces during the Spanish–American War, particularly in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
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C.
Commodore David Porter
Commodore David Porter was a prominent early 19th-century United States Navy officer known for his daring command during the War of 1812, particularly in the Pacific campaign of the USS Essex.
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D.
Thomas Macdonough
Thomas Macdonough was a United States Navy officer best known for his decisive victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.
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E.
Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont
Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont was a prominent 19th-century United States Navy officer noted for his service in the Mexican–American War and the Civil War, particularly in naval blockades and coastal operations.
- 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: Stephen R. Mallory Target entity description: Stephen R. Mallory was an American politician who served as the Confederate States' Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War.
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A.
Joshua Barney
Joshua Barney was an American naval officer and privateer who served with distinction in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
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B.
William T. Sampson
William T. Sampson was a United States Navy admiral best known for leading American naval forces during the Spanish–American War, particularly in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
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C.
Commodore David Porter
Commodore David Porter was a prominent early 19th-century United States Navy officer known for his daring command during the War of 1812, particularly in the Pacific campaign of the USS Essex.
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D.
Thomas Macdonough
Thomas Macdonough was a United States Navy officer best known for his decisive victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.
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E.
Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont
Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont was a prominent 19th-century United States Navy officer noted for his service in the Mexican–American War and the Civil War, particularly in naval blockades and coastal operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Stephen R. Mallory Description of subject: Stephen R. Mallory was an American politician who served as the Confederate States' Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Stephen R. Mallory
linked to: Stephen R. Mallory