Commander
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Commander is a mid-level commissioned officer rank in the United States Navy, typically positioned above lieutenant commander and below captain, often entrusted with commanding warships, aviation squadrons, or key shore installations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Commander canonical | 3 |
| Commander (O-5) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2909833 — 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: Commander Context triple: [United States Navy ranks, includesRank, Commander]
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A.
Commander
Commander is a high-ranking grade within various chivalric and merit orders, typically signifying a distinguished level of honor just below the top classes.
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B.
Company Commander
A Company Commander is the commissioned officer responsible for leading and managing a military company, overseeing its training, operations, and personnel.
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C.
Commander Judd
Commander Judd is a powerful and fanatical high-ranking official of Gilead’s theocratic regime in Margaret Atwood’s novel *The Testaments*.
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D.
Chief Commander
Chief Commander is the highest grade of the U.S. Legion of Merit, typically awarded to heads of state or government for exceptionally meritorious conduct.
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E.
Flight Commander
Flight Commander is an alternate title for the 1930 aviation drama film "The Dawn Patrol," which follows World War I fighter pilots facing the dangers and moral strains of aerial combat.
- 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: Commander Target entity description: Commander is a mid-level commissioned officer rank in the United States Navy, typically positioned above lieutenant commander and below captain, often entrusted with commanding warships, aviation squadrons, or key shore installations.
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A.
Commander
Commander is a high-ranking grade within various chivalric and merit orders, typically signifying a distinguished level of honor just below the top classes.
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B.
Company Commander
A Company Commander is the commissioned officer responsible for leading and managing a military company, overseeing its training, operations, and personnel.
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C.
Commander Judd
Commander Judd is a powerful and fanatical high-ranking official of Gilead’s theocratic regime in Margaret Atwood’s novel *The Testaments*.
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D.
Chief Commander
Chief Commander is the highest grade of the U.S. Legion of Merit, typically awarded to heads of state or government for exceptionally meritorious conduct.
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E.
Flight Commander
Flight Commander is an alternate title for the 1930 aviation drama film "The Dawn Patrol," which follows World War I fighter pilots facing the dangers and moral strains of aerial combat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commissioned officer rank
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military rank ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CDR ⓘ |
| belongsToHierarchy | United States Navy rank structure ⓘ |
| commandLevel |
ship-level command
ⓘ
small shore installation command ⓘ squadron-level command ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| equivalentRank |
Lieutenant colonel (United States Air Force)
ⓘ
Lieutenant colonel (United States Army) ⓘ Lieutenant colonel (United States Marine Corps) ⓘ Lieutenant colonel (United States Space Force) ⓘ |
| higherRank |
Captain (United States Navy)
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Navy captain
|
| insignia | three silver oak leaves on shoulder boards or sleeve stripes ⓘ |
| lowerRank |
Lieutenant commander (United States Navy)
ⓘ
linked to:
Lieutenant Commander
|
| NATOrankCode | OF-4 ⓘ |
| officerCategory | senior officer ⓘ |
| payGrade | O-5 ⓘ |
| promotionFrom |
Lieutenant commander (United States Navy)
ⓘ
linked to:
Lieutenant Commander
|
| promotionTo | Captain (United States Navy) ⓘ |
| rankGroup | mid-level officer ⓘ |
| serviceBranch |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps
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linked to:
NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
United States Coast Guard ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps ⓘ |
| typicalBillet |
executive officer of a larger warship
ⓘ
staff officer at a fleet headquarters ⓘ staff officer at a major shore command ⓘ |
| typicalCommand |
aviation squadron
ⓘ
naval air station department ⓘ shore installation ⓘ submarine ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| typicalExperienceRequirement | significant prior sea or operational service ⓘ |
| typicalResponsibilityLevel |
senior staff officer
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unit command ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commanding aviation squadrons
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commanding key shore installations ⓘ commanding warships ⓘ |
| usedIn |
United States Coast Guard officer corps
ⓘ
United States Navy officer corps ⓘ |
| wearsOnUniform |
shoulder boards indicating rank
ⓘ
sleeve stripes indicating rank ⓘ |
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: Commander Description of subject: Commander is a mid-level commissioned officer rank in the United States Navy, typically positioned above lieutenant commander and below captain, often entrusted with commanding warships, aviation squadrons, or key shore installations.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Commander
linked to: Commander