Jack Phillips
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Jack Phillips was the senior wireless operator aboard the RMS Titanic, known for sending distress signals during the ship’s sinking in 1912.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Phillips canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2970336 — 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: Jack Phillips Context triple: [RMS Titanic, wirelessOperator, Jack Phillips]
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A.
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips is a Colorado baker and owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop who became nationally known for his role in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case over refusing to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple on religious grounds.
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B.
Timothy Church
Timothy Church is a notable individual who bears the surname Church, recognized for his contributions in his respective field.
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C.
William Craig Jr.
William Craig Jr. is the son of William Craig, likely known primarily in relation to his father.
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D.
George Reynolds
George Reynolds was the 19th-century Mormon defendant whose challenge to federal anti-polygamy laws led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reynolds v. United States, which helped define the limits of religious freedom under the First Amendment.
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E.
William Chase Temple
William Chase Temple was an American businessman and sports executive best known for his role in early professional baseball and for having the Temple Cup postseason trophy named in his honor.
- 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: Jack Phillips Target entity description: Jack Phillips was the senior wireless operator aboard the RMS Titanic, known for sending distress signals during the ship’s sinking in 1912.
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A.
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips is a Colorado baker and owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop who became nationally known for his role in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case over refusing to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple on religious grounds.
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B.
Timothy Church
Timothy Church is a notable individual who bears the surname Church, recognized for his contributions in his respective field.
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C.
William Craig Jr.
William Craig Jr. is the son of William Craig, likely known primarily in relation to his father.
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D.
George Reynolds
George Reynolds was the 19th-century Mormon defendant whose challenge to federal anti-polygamy laws led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reynolds v. United States, which helped define the limits of religious freedom under the First Amendment.
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E.
William Chase Temple
William Chase Temple was an American businessman and sports executive best known for his role in early professional baseball and for having the Temple Cup postseason trophy named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
wireless operator ⓘ |
| associatedWithEventDate |
1912-04-14
ⓘ
1912-04-15 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | hypothermia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1887-04-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1912-04-15 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Godalming Grammar School ⓘ |
| employer |
Marconi Company
ⓘ
RMS Titanic ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| eventParticipatedIn |
sinking of the RMS Titanic
ⓘ
linked to:
RMS Titanic
|
| familyName | Phillips ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | wireless telegraphy ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
remaining at his post during the Titanic disaster
ⓘ
sending distress signals during the sinking of RMS Titanic ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | died in the sinking of RMS Titanic ⓘ |
| memorial |
Phillips Memorial Cloister, Godalming
ⓘ
Titanic Engineers’ Memorial, Southampton ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| nickname | Jack ⓘ |
| notableAction | continued transmitting distress calls after being relieved by junior operator Harold Bride ⓘ |
| notableFor | ignoring non-essential passenger messages to handle ice warnings and traffic ⓘ |
| occupation | wireless operator ⓘ |
| parent |
Anne Phillips
ⓘ
George Alfred Phillips ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Godalming, Surrey, England ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
North Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlantic Ocean
|
| position | senior wireless operator ⓘ |
| religion |
Anglicanism
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
|
| sentDistressSignalType |
CQD
ⓘ
SOS ⓘ |
| shipServedOn |
RMS Mauretania
ⓘ
linked to:
RMS Mauretania (1906)
RMS Oceanic ⓘ RMS Titanic ⓘ |
| shipTypeServedOn | ocean liner ⓘ |
| startTimeOnTitanic | 1912-04-06 ⓘ |
| trainedAt |
Marconi Company training school
ⓘ
linked to:
Marconi Company
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| usedTechnology |
Marconi wireless telegraph system
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linked to:
Marconi Company
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| workedWith | Harold Bride ⓘ |
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: Jack Phillips Description of subject: Jack Phillips was the senior wireless operator aboard the RMS Titanic, known for sending distress signals during the ship’s sinking in 1912.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.